Voice and Speech in the Theatre. By J. Clifford Turner. (Pitmnun. l is.) To act is not to behave naturalIv. It is to behavc in such a way as to appear natural to pcoplc...

Shorter Notices Documents on British Foreign Policy 19191939. [ dited by lE. L. Woodward and RlolJit Buder, assisted by Margaret Lambert. T hird Series, vol. III, 1938-9....

Country and Travel. January, i9p ; F-el)ruary, 19j1. (Ramblers' Association I Services. Is. 6d. each.) THESE arc the fifth and sixth issues of a new travel magazine, edited...

The Voice of Poetry (1930-1950). An anthology edited, with a critical introduction, bv licrnmatin PtcscIimain. (Lbans Brothers. 8s. 6d.) IN order to add interest to their...

Albrecdt Diirer: Drawings andl Watercolours. Selected and with an ijtroduct ion i)v disund Scthillino. Dutch Master Drawings ofthe Seventeenth Century. Selected an(l aith ani...

Supremo Admiral Mountbatten's massive and well-produced report on the conduct of operations in the South-East Asia Command, for which he was responsible from 1943 until the...

the Latest from Russia The latest Russian Note lends colour to the assumption that a Four-Power Conference of Foreign Ministers will one day Se held. It is well over three...

Unrest in Prague Czechoslovakia is almost as completely veiled by the Iron Curtain as Russia itself. It is therefore impossible to get any clear idea of the nature and extent...

Grain for India The State Department is presumably to blame for forwarding to Congress India's request for two million tons of grain just at the moment when, as a result of the...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR B.B.C. Religion %it.--With much of Eric Fcnn's article I find myself in substantial agree- mrent. But there arc certain points to which he does not seem...

SIR.-It must appear an impertinence for one who cannot claim to have listened to 1B.B.C. religious broadcasts to comment upon Mr. Eric Fenn's article; but some of his...

Regional Hospital Boards SIR,-It is becoming more and more widely recognised that one of the most flagrant enormities of the National Health Service is the denial to general...

Modern Apostolate By A LAY READER T HE living is filled at last. Soon the Bishop will visit our church and institute the vicar. The churchwardens have asked thirtv...

AT WESTMINSTER T HERE has been a touch of giddiness about the House of Commons which is not altogether surprising, seeing how it is being nourished on legislative husks varied...

The Dockers Again Since the end of the war the dockers have found a variety of reasons for striking, but the grant of two shillings a day rise in pay is surely the least...

The New Territorials The benefit which the Army has always derived from its local associations needs no emphasis, but in the post-war Army these associations have been...

South of Seoul It is difficult, not for the first time, to grasp the implications'of what is happening in Korea itself. For some days now United Nations forces, with strong...

NEWS OF THE WEEK A S things stand at this moment there is reason for regretting that the Assembly of the United Nations did not take Sir Benegal Rau's advice and attempt a...

The Steel Decision The result of the steel debate in the House of Commons ot Wednesday leaves the situation as it was-which is as bad as it could be. Not. indeed, irredeemably...

Christianity and War SIR,-I am anxious to support [lie Rev. C. J. Weston in his suggestion that we clergy do not really believe that Christianity is the way of the Cross, and...

The Quaker Thee SIR,-As a Friend, I was particularly interested in Canon Roger Lloyd', fascinating article on The Railway Pioneers, for I confess I had not realised that the...

Gone to Earth SIR.---tfr. Richard Church tells us in the Spectator of February 2nd that he has been looking at navelwort (Omphalodes Lucilitae) in a friend's garden. It was....

Coal-getting SIR,-Those who have studied the situation have come to the conclusion Ihat in the past our coal has been got altogether too cheap and the job of coal-getting has...

The Bomb as Deterrent SIR,-One lesson of the Korean war is fairly clear. The atom bomb 1had been cast for two distinct rides: first, as a decisive weapon if war siould come;...

Covenanted Subscriptions SIR,-What seems to have been overlooked in the controversy that has arisen with regard to covenanted subscriptions to hospitals is that, if the...

Preachers and Pulpits SiR.-In his review of The Churches in English Fiction, by A. L. Drummond, published in your issue of January 20th, Sir Norman Birkett quotes the author as...

Pompous? SIR.-Aa. a regular reader of the Spectator over many years, I am rather concerned at the pompous attitude it takes thesc days to controversial matters. Its editor, I...

Human Rights in Industry By A PERSONNEL OFFICER T HE question of human relations in industry is coming increasingly under discussion, and so it should, particularly so far as...

Of the various reviews of Mr. Harrod's life of Keynes I have read with particular interest one by Mr. Kingsley Martin in last week's New Statesinan, dealing, as it does among...

A private bus company has conceived the admirable project of running an express coach service between Oxford and Camhridge. Nothing could be more beneficial. for the railwav...

A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK IT is not surprising that the Gallup Poll results published in the News Chronicle on Monday should have caused considerable discussion, for they...

The baleful influence of products of the London School of Economic on Labour politics in this country is a not infrequent theme of Conservative publicists. This is a problem on...

* * w w One thing I stipulate, that any discussion on Shakespeare and the Authorsed Version shall not drag in Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam. I don't mind its dragging in the...

R w o d Re-reading the other day Lord Roscbery's brilliant mnono-o graph on Lord Randolph Churchill, I came on a judgement which 1 had forgotten. Speaking of Mr. Churchill's...

Birds in the Modern World Birds and Men. By E. M. Nicholson. (Collins. 2 Is.) THIS, the first book on birds in the New Naturalist Series, very handsomely produced, well...

First of the Russians Pushkin. By HIenri Troyat, trans. by R. T. Weaver. (Gollancz. 2 Is.) Tin RE could be no greater contrast than that between the story of Pushkin's life...

COUNTRY LIFE HAVING cause to be up and out before daylight one morning this week, I was able once again to try to find an answer to that perennial question, which is the first...

Under the Canopy That moment of solitude at dawn is one of the most moving experiences of the country-dweller. It is worth the discipline of early rising, if one needs the...

In the Garden I have had an enquiry about planting the Black Hellebore, or Christmas Rose. It should be set in early autumn, preferably in a place where it will have some...

The Seamy Side London's Underworld. Selections from the fourth volume of Lond,)i Labour and the London Poor. By Henry Mayhew. Edited b, Peter Quennell. (William Kimber....

Reviews of the Week Genial Collaborator Worthy Dr. Fuller. By William Addison. (Dent. i 6s.) iHE genial Thomas Fuller, with his immense good humour, his immense works of...

In Command of U.S.A.A.F. Global Mission. By General H. H. Arnold. (Hutchinson. 2 I.) GENERAL H. H. ARNOLD commanded the United States Army Air Forces for eight years, but by...

Diplomacy and Meat By GEORGE BRINSMEAD SOME years ago Mr. Harold Nicolson in his account of the commercial origins of modern diplomacy referred to the latter as being governed...

Gloucester Cathedral (On the Effigy of Edward 11 there) "They give me bread and water. being a King": Words Marlowe made you mutter in a play. Words hidden in my memory many a...

CINEMA "The Mating Season." (Plaza.)-,' The Long Dark* Hall." (Lcicester Square.)-" La Valse de Paris." (Rialto.) The Mating Season is, appropriately enough, a domestic...

MUSIC THE Kalmar Chamber Orchestra, which gave a concert at Wigmoro Hall on February 2nd, competes in a field which during the last few years has had a surprisingly large...

CONTEMPORARY ARTS THEATRE " Henry V." By William Slukespeare. (Old Vic.) " BUT what I want to know," said the American lady in the foyer, "is who was good in Idstory ? " The...

MARGINAL COMMENT By HAROLD NICOLSON IN the days before Bloomsbury came to be regarded as a sacred grove, reserved for the more fastidious flowers of our native genius, it was...

BRITAIN'S PEACE-AIMS REACHING at St. Paul's Cathedral on Sunday. the Archdeacon of London expressed his sense of the need for a clear statement of British aims and their...

The Oil Problem Wells of Power. By Sir Olaf Caroe. (Macmillain. i 5s.) IT was a most unfortunate accident of historical timing that made the discovery of oil in the lands...

Fiction The Mask and the Man. By Alan Thomas. (Gollancz. gs. 6d.) The Earth is Our Heritage. By Ernst Weiciert. (Peter Nevill. 12s. 6d.) Bandersnatch. By 1. 1. Ryves....

A Word for Fallen Grandeur By LORD DUNSANY T; HERE is no class whose defence I should presume to attempt; for anyone who defended one-third of the cornmunity would find the...

The Russians and the Germans By MARK ARNOLD-FORSTER Berlin FOR the last eight weeks the Russians and their German friends have been concentrating the combined resources of...

BOOKS AND WRITERS AUDEN is the most intelligent living poet in the English language. He has the advantages and disadvantages of his intelligence. An advantage is that it...

UNDERGRADUATE PAGE Public Opinion By MORTON DEMMERY (St. Catherine's Society, Oxford) M Y lecture had finished at eleven, and it was a bright morning. I had to fill in the...

FINANCE AND INVESTMENT By CUSTOS Ti;rRE are still inflation markets on both sides of the Atlantic. Price controls, allocation schemes, even steep increases in company...