of What is really happening in Germany. One illuminating incident is the declaration by Dr. Schacht that the annual sum of 2O0,000,000 marks for German propaganda abroad can no...

so far produced no pronouncements of note, beyond a repetition by Herr Hitler of the vague threats already directed by General Goering against the four million who had the...

Sir James Jeans to comment ade- quately on the Presidential address by Sir James Jeans at the British Association meeting on Wednesday. It soared into regions where only minds...

on Sunday arising out of the Fascist rally the Anti-Fascists will bear the chief responsibility for it. They are organizing a simultaneous counter-demonstration, condemned by...

League Council on the problems arising out of the possible transfer of the Saar to Germany still further complicates an almost intolerably complicated situation. There is...

appointing a Standing Road Safety Council, which will meet weekly. The road-traffic problem is viewed from quite different angles by motorists, cyclists and pedestrians...

the United States textile strike on the second day of the actual stop- page page (for Monday was a holiday over most of the Union) is, no doubt, secretly welcomed by both sides,...

on Monday as the fourth General of the Salvation Army, attains a position such as no woman has ever before occupied in the history of the various Churches. Apart from the...

Committee that is enquiring into the American munitions industry has already produced some startling disclosures. Not that there is anything astonishing in ordinary business...

coal-owners' strange post- ponement of the meeting of the Conciliation Joint Board in which their representatives are to confer with the miners, only twelve days (between...

air traffic in Great Britain are recorded in the Air Ministry's Report of the progress of civil aviation. In 1933 the weight of air mail from this country increased by one-third...

registers according to the latest returns were about 10.000 in excess of last month, there is an improvement in the figures of employment of 34.000. The large discrepancy is due...

declaration that "if Great Britain were involved in a war the Dominions would remain out of it unless they chose to come in" comes the declaration of the Liberal Party in Canada...

the refusal of the Australian Government to delay the collection of the new duties on cotton goods till the British ease had been heard, has been eased by Mr. Lyons's speech....

T HE League of Nations Assembly, which begins its fifteenth regular session on Monday, has never met under more critical conditions, not even at the moment when the Manchurian...

T HOSE who are anxious to know how the Labour movement is shaping in this country will do well to pay even more attention to the Trades Union Congress than to the Conference of...

A BRIEF reference was made in last week's Spectator to the latest report of the Industrial Insurance Commissioner, for the year ending December, 1933. The question of industrial...

to occupy public attention, but they are disregarded more or less." Not, at any rate, by the Express, which gave more space on Monday to reporting the nudist conference than any...

Monday that in his young days one found a copy of the Bible not only in every guest-room in private houses, but in many hotel-bedrooms. As a matter of fact one frequently found...

won the Middlesex Girls' Tennis Championship last Saturday, has all the makings of an England player in her—and, fortunately, though she is Chinese by parentage she is British...

the various obstacles to Russia's admission to the League of Nations are all removed yet. Quite apart from the eleventh-hour rumour of the opposition of Argentina, which, as a...

T HOPE the motoring associations and everyone else IL who cares for human life will fight to the last ditch against the suggestion that motor-horns be banned altogether, by day...

likely to keep the Salvation Army well in the limelight. She has a flair for the spec- tacular, stimulated by her 30 years' residence in the United States. But she is an...

By THE CHAIRMAN OF A LICENSING BENCH "A N awkward question, Sir, very awkward," said Sir William Harcourt to Mr. Gladstone, "what do you think we ought to do about it ? "...

By RAY STRACHEY M R. GRAHAM LIPSTONE, in his article last week, raised a question which is of great social import- ance, but one which is beset with difficulties of every kind....

By STANLEY CASSON V ARIOUS experiments made in the last few months seem to have had little or no effect on the number and character of road fatalities. Now that the subject is...

By S. K. RATCLIFFE j 'OSEPH HENRY SHORTHOUSE, born in Birming- ham on September 9th, 1834, was a man of one book and, essentially, of a single interest in life—the seven-...

By AMABEL WILLIAMS-ELLIS T HE writers of the Soviet Union have just finished their first full-dress Conference, and the long red and white banners of welcome still hang in the...

By BLANCHE E. C. DUGDALE W E were five people, sitting at dirmer in a Scottish country house in August, 1934. At the head of the table sat the Cabinet Minister, at the foot,...

"Napoleon." By Alfred Sangster. At the Embassy Theatre A GREAT French historian has said that "a fairly complete Napoleonic library should include about ten thousand volumes....

best moments in this Hollywood charade occur when the hero arrives at a place called " Cellini's Mountain Hide- away." The goldsmith has escaped from an awkward situation in the...

"Blossom Time." At the Regal WHATEVER may happen in Austria, the traditional atmospher e of Vienna is safe on the screen. There the Danube is alway s blue ; music and singing...

Scarlet Empress. Marlene Dietrich as Catherine of Russia, directed by Josef von Sternberg. Mannerized costume spectacle, full of grotesque decoration, brilliantly photo-...

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7th 6.30 Students' Songs : Wireless Male Voice Chorus, Smart 8.o Promenade Concert—Beethoven Programme : B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra, Ilarriet Cohen, Robert...

The Three Choirs at Gloucester. SECS from the top of Birdlip Hill the landscape presents to the eye two conspicuous objects, a large red gasometer and, poor second, the tower...

of the most per- nicious have flourished beyond credence. Some of us went forth recently on to a spacious Common to collect a few gorse seeds. We opened pod after pod. In each...

The other day it was my fortune to sail down the Severn in the neighbourhood of Shrewsbury. Sabrina was very fur; and is not to be less fair for the appearance of a foreign...

and in my district there has been an inexplicable - absence of butterflies. Even the cabbage whites (the only butterfly in the list that does any particular harm) have been few....

to me at this date in the year astonished many observers on "the First." The partridges had packed. I saw one pack of at least fifty birds fly high and strongly over a belt of...

Within sight of my windows a glorious field of white wheat was cut and carried in early August,. and the ploughing of the stubble completed on the last day of August. This...

field I do not know ; but on an adjacent farm two fields yielded well over seven quarters to the acre, an enormous weight ; and the quality is high, even if not up to Manitoba...

martins, who have built over three score of nests in one short piece of wall, two or three have this week, and this week only, hatched their final brood. These are probably the...

I suspect, will be handicapped in his appreciation of the interesting series of articles on the above subject begun in your issue of August 31st, by a small but insidious error...

[To the Editor of Tin: SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Graham Lipstone's article is timely and salutary. It is probably not possible to assert dogmatically that sexual laxness is more...

[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...

article on" Fascism and Nazism" last week Professor Guglielmo Ferrero wrote: "I believe that in events which are now shaping themselves the consequences of these differences...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Some good sportsmen have just been comparing notes in The Times as to the highest number of grouse shot in one day's drive. Lord Glands...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The writer of a letter under the above heading in your issue for August 31st has possibly voiced an opinion held by numbers of your...

Sm,—I have great sympathy with Miss Lea and her demand for a readable novel every day, but between publishing seasons the readable novels are few and far between. The space I...

[To the Editor of TEE SPECTATOR.] SM,—There are statements in Prof. Ferrero's article" Fascism and Nazism—Diseases of Monarchy " concerning which it would be interesting to...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The provisional nomination of Professor Julian Huxley for the position of Secretary to the London Zoo is naturally viewed with alarm by...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Whatever will be the direct or indirect results of secession in future, there is one clear result in prospect, which is a permanent...

[To the Editor of TIIE SPECTATOR.] Sin,— : May I endorse the eloquent plea of Dr. C. Delisle Burns (in his review of a pamphlet by Mr. C. E. M. Joad in your issue of August...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In his review of the late Wilfrid Ewart's Scots Guard, Mr. Alec Waugh writes : "I always suspected that it was with a good deal of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Being interested in William Hazlitt both as a writer and a man, I read Mr. Pritchett's article in the August 17th number of your paper...

[To the Editor of THE SeEcrxroa.] Sia,—Paradoxical as it may seem, Tractarian teaching actually emphasized the Royal Prerogative exercised by consent and with the authority of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have undertaken to write a Memoir of Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, and I should be very glad to receive, at Millbrook House, Guildford, any...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Can you help me to identify a bird that is visiting our garden at the end of August ? It resembles nothing so much as the water crake,...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of August 31st, 1934, in reference to Mr. O'Duffy and Lord Craigavon, after referring to some of Mr. O'Duffy's statements...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sig,—In reference to a short article entitled "A Dowser's Experiment," in your issue of August 31st, may I say that I also have placed the ends...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—AS is usually the case, your journal has shown the sensible and human way in which to deal with the dread possibility of further wars....

By PROFESSOR GEORGE M. TREVELYAN, O.M. IT is a fortunate event that this year has seen the publication of Professor Neale's Elizabeth and Mr. Buchan's Cromwell. There are now...

THE story which Lord Snowden has to tell in his Autobio- graphy is the always stimulating one of a long fight against odds. We see great ability backed by strong will winning...

A Short History of Our Times. By J. A. Spender. (Cassell. - 10s. 6d.) Mn. SPENDER'S qualities as a historian and critic are so well known and so much admired that his readers...

The Freemasons : The History, Nature. Development mini Secret of the Royal Art. By Eugen Lennhoff. Translated by Einar Frame. (Methuen. 21s.) HERE LENNROFF has made in this...

Toe title of Mr. Crabites' latest work upon the Sudan does not give so clear a description of its contents as those of his two previous books. For, white in the first fifteen...

Sermons by Artists. (Golden Cockerell Press. 21s.) Tim foreword to this volume suggests a fundamental frivolity of purpose which ill consorts with the solemnity of its con-...

THE system of combined statutory and voluntary social services which have developed during the last forty years is the subject of Miss Macadam's book. It is unusually valuable...

ONE thousandtwo hundred and twenty years of Spanish history are narrated by two historians, one a French Academician, the other a British baronet, in this massive new volume of...

In Morocco with the Legion. By G. Ward Price. Illustrated. (Jarrolds. 18s.) Limn has been heard in this country of the campaign among the Grand Atlas Mountains undertaken by the...

By GRAHAM GREENE 7s. 6d.) MR. CALDER - MARSIIALL, whose About Levy was one of the most interesting novels published last year, proves himself again in Al Sea a writer of great...

By Hilaire Hiler Those who do not paint and many of those who do probably have no idea of the pitfalls which are prepared for the art it by the unaccountable behaviour of...

Engel et Charles Vallot A short time ago Mlle. Engel won fame by a volume on the Literature of the Alps in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which was " crowned " by the...

By Ex-Det. Sergeant B. Leeson The crimes and sensational exploits of gangsters in American cities occupy an unpleasant amount of attention today. But few realize that London...

By Thomas Burke Mr. Burke has known London over nearly four decades, the curtain of his "conscious awareness" rising with the Diamond jubilee, and he has seen many changes in...

PERIODICALS The warnings of history remain even if we refuse to heed them. In Civilization and Liberty," contributed to the Nineteenth Century, Mr. Ramsay Muir sets the...

I HAVE referred in another column to the fact that in spite of the further rise in the price of gold, some of the shares of gold mining companies have experienced a slight...

Is Trade Reacting ? IT is now common ground that for the past twelve months there has been a material recovery in the internal trade of the country. That there has not been a...

and Co., the Newcastle-upon-Tyne engineers and shipbuilders, is a very satisfactory one. Whereas for the year 1932/3 there was a substantial loss on the year's working, the...

A GREAT BA—NKER. By the death of Mr. F. C. Goodenough, the Chairman of Barclays Bank, Limited, the City of London has suffered the greatest loss which it has experienced since...

The latest report of Wardle and Davenport, the manufac- turers of silk textiles, &c., shows that the profit for the past year after meeting depreciation and Debenture interest...

HESITANT MARKETS. THE Stock Markets have been quieter during the past week, anxiety concerning the situation in the United States being among the restraining influences. A...

The shareholders of Eastwoods, Limited, can be congratu- lated upon the results achieved for the past half-year. The trading profit was nearly £92,000, as compared with £62,490...

I am able this week to refer to more than one industrial company giving signs of material recovery from conditions of depression. A striking instance is furnished by the latest...

the receipt of THE SPECTATOR regularly while travelling on holiday, readers are advised to instruct their Newsagents to post THE SPECTATOR to them weekly during their temporary...

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