At the Organ of THE TOWER BALLROOM,
BLACKPOOL
(From North National)

From THE REGAL, MARBLE ARCH

RECEPTION TEST

Mr. ALEC MACDONALD : Story VI, Rome '

ANNE WOLFE (Viola)
MAX PIRANI (Pianoforte)

French Readings-VI
Monsieur MARCEL A. Ruff : ' Les Grands Romantiques dovant la Nature '

VERONICA MANSFIELD (Contralto)
THE CHARLES WOODHOUSE STRING QUARTET:
Charles Woodhouse (Violin); Herbert Kinsey (Violin) ; Ernest Yonge (Viola) ;
Charles Crabbe (Violoncello)

Directed by FRANK CANTELL
(From Midland Regional)

BACH'S SONGS
Sung by BETTY BANNERMAN and ERIC GREENE
Sacred Song (1736), Komm, siisser Tod, komm, sel'ge Ruh ' (Come, kindly death, come, holy peace)
Sanfte soli mein Todeskummer (Gently shan I mourn) (from the Easter Oratorio, 1736)
Mein Jesus ist erstanden (My Lord Jesus has risen) (from the Cantata, Halt' im Gedachtniss Jesum Christ-Hold in remembrance
Jesus Christ , about 1725)
Ich will leiden, ich will. schweigen(I will grieve, I will speak not) (from the Cantata, Bisher habt ihr nichts gebeten in meinem Namen-Never yet have ye asked in My name, 1735)

' The Surgery of Yesterday,' by a Surgeon

Professor ElLEEN POWER (Professor of Economic
History in the University of London): The Middle Ages-I, Political Life and Thought '
The civilized world is groping for a satisfactory conception of unity. It is the glory and the paradox of the Middle Ages that they achieved the conception, but failed to maintain it in practice. The Holy Roman Empire, which united mediaeval society under the complementary rule of the Pope and the Emperor, did immense service to the modern world in preserving the memory of the Roman Empire and the unity of the Christian Church, while assimilating into the European scheme the northern barbarians who had overrun the Mediterranean world. Europe retained the titular unity until the time of Napoleon, when its framework finally collapsed, being, in Voltaire's phrase, no longer ' Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.' Today urgent efforts arc being made to resurrect the mediæval ideal in a political form suited to modern needs.