10 JULY 1926

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The terms offered by tilt.. Yorkshire employers for the first

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three months were good, but it was proposed that after three months there should be a return to the 1021 agree ment . representing . 20% above the standard wages instead of the...

For instance, in the House of Commons on Thursday, July

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1st, he surprised the House and gratified those of us who want the Report and nothing but the Report by , suggesting that if the miners would agree it was still possible . for...

In the House of Lords on Tuesday it was annotmeeJ

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that the Hours Bill would not be pressed forward as had been arranged. The Lords had already given the whole of Monday's sitting to the second reading and the debate had...

Although we regret every move which even seems to weaken

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the policy of the Report and nothing but the Report we can see nothing whatever vicious in the Eight Hours Bill in itself. Lord Grey of Fallodon said on Monday that in his...

NEWS OF THE WEEK

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A LL the lessons of the week in connexion with the coal dispute show the dangers which were bound to attend any departure from the Report of the Royal Commission. Nobody...

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On Tuesday Mr. J. H. Thomas, who has done better

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for his clients than any other trade unionist leader, and has made the N.U.R. the richest Labour organization in the country, had once again to fight for his official life....

A grotesque incident occurred in connexion with the reporting of

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the Conference. In spite of the sound advice of Mr. J. H. Thomas the Conference decided that only newspapers which were "trade union houses" should be allowed to report the...

Monday. The N.U.R. has been holding its annual con- ference

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at Weymouth, and Mr. Dobbie used the occasion to call Mr. Baldwin "our Pecksniffian Prime Minister" who "trotted out platitudes about peace" when troops and ships of war were...

The Report goes on to point out that this "

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slogan " meant the immediate throwing out of work of some 300,000 miners and that such a solution "appears too awful for any trade union leaders to contemplate." The miners are...

It will be remembered that the Conference of the Trade

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Union Executives at which the history of the general strike was to be threshed out was postponed in order to avoid drawing attention to the Labour split while the coal strike...

Meanwhile the figures of unemployment are, of course, mounting steadily.

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The latest returns show that exclusive of the miners there were 1,638,600 unemployed. This was 3,858 more than in the previous week and 334,357 more than a year ago.

On Wednesday representatives of the Yorkshire owners came to London

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to interview the Government and the offending terms were withdrawn. Lord Gainford explained in the House of Lords that he held the Yorkshire terms to be justifiable and even...

In a letter to the Times of Wednesday Dr. Arthur

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Shadwell, who is an exceedingly good judge and a very sympathetic and learned student of Labour affairs, says that there is a regular campaign among Labour leaders to advance...

The papers of last Saturday published a Declaration on the

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industrial situation by the Trades Union Congress which was extremely inopportune in manner and matter. The Declaration complains of determined attacks by the Government and the...

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M. Caillaux began his speech on Tuesday by saying that

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he agreed "in the main" with the Experts' Report, though he did not approve of their proposals for taxation. As the Treasury was unable to meet the capital expendi- ture on the...

It has been suggested to us that we should call

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attention to the rearrangement and development of our small classified advertisements. In this way, it is thought, we could help our readers who advertise in the Spectator. We...

The French Chamber, when we go to press, is engaged

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in a life and death debate. The " two-headed " Govern- ment of M. Briand and M. Caillaux must abide by the results. The signs are perhaps a little more hopeful than when we last...

We regret to announce the death of H. Cone, whose

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curative formula became a fashion, a craze and a joke. Many men who started with no more psychological learning than M. Cone had would have become charlatans, but M. Cone was...

The internal debt, he went on to say, amounted to

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three hundred milliards, of which a large proportion was of very short date. The two possible policies of meeting this internal debt were compulsory consolidation and slow...

The phrases about the " real " balancing of the

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Budget and the " real " meeting of Treasury obligations cover a tragedy of make-believe. Not many days ago the French Government announced that the Budget had "at last been...

Bank Rate, 5 per cent., changed from 4 per cent.

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on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 100 11 ; on Wednesday week 101; a year ago 99 j. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 86j; on Wednesday...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY

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THE CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS IN CANADA rpm Parliamentary crisis in Canada raises not only .1_ some very important political issues for the . Dominions but may be making an...

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THE FASCIST STATE: A NEW PHASE

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[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] W HEN Fascism suddenly changed its programme of revolutionary Socialism to one of reactionary conservatism after the temporary occupation of the...

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THE WEEK IN PARLIAMENT

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BY NEW MEMBER. rr HE darkness which shrouds the coal situation was • intensified during the week, and the quite legitimate gamble in which the Government has been indulging now...

[Mr. Robert 13oothby, the Unionist member for East Aberdeen. shire,

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visited Russia with three other Unionist M.P.s. They spent part of April and May, 1926, in Moscow and afterwards published a short statement recording their impressions which...

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THE ROYAL TOURNAMENT

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A UREA was late for the dress-rehearsal at Olympia, of course. How could one remember it took twenty minutes to get there ? Besides, she thought it began at three o'clock, so...

SKYLARKS AT HENDON

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T HIRTY acres or so for a stage and the whole firmament of heaven for a back-cloth, what a chance, I thought, for the dramatist, and then I fell to thinking of luncheon. The...

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WHY DO THE AMERICANS EXCEL AT GOLF?

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BY BERNARD DARWIN. T HE first answer I feel inclined to give to the question set me is that the Americans can generally beat us at any game if they put their minds to it. But...

SPECTABILIA.

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THE 150th anniversary of the founding of a nation is a great occasion in the life of any people, and its citizens are entitled to rejoice, but when that nation happens to be the...

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THE THEATRE

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TURGENEV AND GEORGE SAND [A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY. BY IVAN TURGENEV. ROYALTY THEATRE.] THE French have been celebrating the cinquantenaire of George Sand, who died in 1876....

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MUSIC

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COVENT GARDEN OPERA " FALSTAFF " THE two months season arranged by the London Opera Syndicate at Covent Garden was brought to a brilliant close on July 2nd with a performance...

CORRESPONDENCE

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A LETTER FROM EAST AFRICA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — We in East Africa make no apology for ourselves, or for bringing our problems before those at Home. We are...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SENATOR BORAH

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—I am impelled in the interest of truth to demur to the criticisms by Mr. S. K. Ratcliffe, in your issue of July 3rd, to portions of my...

WHY SOCIALISM?

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.! Sin,-1 wish you wouldn't do it. I thought we had finished with this correspondence, and now you publish a letter which challenges me to define...

QUIS JUDICABIT ?

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LTo the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--It was with some surprise, and certainly with regret, that I read, in your issue of June 26th, your apparent acqui. escence in the...

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THE LAWN TENNIS AGE

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[To the Editor of the Sp - Ec-rxroa.] am one of the older type of Public School master. As such I would like to point out to " X " that in his enthu- siasm for lawn tennis he...

STANNINGTON CHILDREN'S SANATORIUM

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Of course I regret that my reference to Stannington Children's Sanatorium should have distressed any who work for it, as does Mr. Howard...

THE "NEW MESSIAH."

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The anonymous author of the article headed "The New Messiah" in your issue of June 26th should have made more sure of his facts. It is...

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THE LONDON SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM [To the Editor of the

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SPECTATOR.] S1R,—It may interest your readers, many of whom have shown a practical interest in the work of this School, to know that a new Prize has just been instituted in...

THE " LABOUR " PARTY [To the Editor of the

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SPECTATOR.] SIR, —This title, arrogated to themselves by a minority of the Nation, is as much a misnomer as " Catholic " when used for one section, though the largest, of the...

PEAT FUEL [To the• Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Sin,—It appears that very little is generally known of this product, and for the benefit of those interested I should like to give a little authentic information about this...

THE NEW GREENWOOD [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, — Judging

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from the many references to it in the ballads celebrating Robin Hood's exploits, I think there .. can be no possible doubt that greenwood means simply the Woodland and not the...

POETRY

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TO AN ORANGE (FOR N. L.) IN days gone by we thought you rather vulgar, Playing a humble—tho' not hidden—part, The darling of the undiscerning many, Sold from a stall (at two...

CHILDREN'S COUNTRY HOLIDAYS : THE " SPECTATOR " FUND

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IT is extremely gratifying to us, and we know that we may express to our readers the thanks of the " Children's Country Holidays Fund," when we can acknowledge, as we do below,...

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fli c 5p e cAta tor

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SUMMER TRAVEL AND MOTOR SUPPLEMENT No. 5115.] WEEK ENDING SA.TURDAY„JULY 10, 1920. [GR ATIS.

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The Summer Holidays

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"He is only a useful traveller who brings home something by which his country may be benefited ; who procures some supply of want, or some mitigation of evil which may enable...

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MUIRHEAD'S NORTH-WESTERN FRANCE. Edited by

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THE latest volume of Macmillan's Blue Guides is Muirheads North-Western France, which completes the group of Blue Guides dealing with France. There could be no better guide for...

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Motoring Notes

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The Rolls-Royce Car IT is difficult to abstain from too many superlatives when writing of the Rolls-Royce car. As a matter of fact, the term "Rolls-Royce" has become a synonym...

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A BOOK OF THE • MOMENT

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New York Times.] Benjamin Disraeli. The Romance or a Great Career. By the Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Clarke, K.C. (John Murray. 10s. 6(1. net.) - IT IS to me a personal pleasure to...

REPORT ON THE COMPETITION [The Editor offered a prize of

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15 for a list of the seven greatest Victorians. A new competition will be announced next week.] IN a competition which is judged on democratic lines, by a plebiscite, as it...

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A handbook for amateur beginners on Training Horses for Races,

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by Captain G. W. Meredith (Constable, 4s. 6d.), contains sound but not very striking or original information. The section on jumping is good, as is a final observation on...

Mr. Montagu Allwood has written an important work on carnations.

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The President of the Royal Horticultural Society says in his preface that all lovers of this delightful flower will benefit by the book : we cordially agree with Lord La...

THE LIFE WITHIN

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Psycho-analysis for Normal People. By Geraldine Coster. (Oxford University Press. 2s. 6d. net.). . Endimion : My thoughts have no veins, and yet unless they be let blood, I...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS

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SIR WILLIAM ARBUTHNOT LANE endorses What's Best to Eat, by Mr. Henning 13elfrage, with a practical supplement by Miss Yates (Heinemann, 7s. (Id.) as follows : "The deeper one...

Mr. Percy Alliss, who was lately champion of Wales and

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Essex, has written in Better Golf a really lucid book about the game, illustrated by twenty-four action photographs. Especially clear are the author's remarks on the choice and...

The British and Foreign Bible Society send us a booklet

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containing an English text done into 576 foreign languages. This is a tour de force which proves that the Bible is now the cheapest and most accessible of books. The Gospel in...

Mrs. Mine Stopes' Vectia Banned Play and a Preface on

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the Censorship, John Bane, Sons and Danielsson, 5s.) is about a beautiful woman whose wretched husband could not give her a baby. The plot is not without interest and cer-...

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THE LAST MONUMENT TO SHELLEY

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Vol. VIII. of The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. In ten volumes. Newly edited with Introduction and Critical and Bibliographical Notes. By Roger Ingpon and Walter E....

READERS who obtain their copies of the SPECTATOR through Subseription

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FAR HORIZONS

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Intercourse between India and the Western World. By H. G. Rawlinson. (Cambridge University Press. 8s. 6d.) Religion and Folklore of Northern India. By Wm. Crookes. (A new...

THE JULY MAGAZINES

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THE July Contemporary opens with a joint article on "The Liberal Party" by Lord Beauchamp and Professor Ramsay Muir. The second section is the more interesting. In it Professor...

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CURRENT LITERATURE

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THE authors of this interesting publication tell us that the method they have adopted has been that of Sir Stafford North- cotes Twenty Years of Financial Policy, a little...

THREE ESSAYISTS

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The Orange Tree : A Volume of Essays. By Robert Lynd. (Methuen. 68.) Spinikins : A Book of Essays. By George A. Birmingham. (Methuen. 5s.) The Wooden Man and other Stories and...

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FICTION

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THE RED PAVILION. By John Gunther. (Martin Seeker. 7s. (Id. net.)—This study of the psychology of modern marriage is not merely a brilliant first novel : it is one of the best,...

THE SILENT SIX. (Hodder and Stoughton. 75. M.)— " Seamark's

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" thrilling new mystery story deals with honour l a a m w. ong thieves and the price paid for the breaking of this

THE TWO SISTERS. By H. E. Bates. (Cape. 75. 6d.)—

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As Mr. Edward Garnett tells us in his preface, an element of poetic beauty, due to the elimination of non-essentials, per- vades The Two Sisters, the first novel of a young man...

THE GROOVE. By Dorothy Cosens. (Williams and Norgate. 7s. 6d.

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net.)—A competent attack on the familiar novel-form which introduces irreconcilable genera- tions. Miss Cosens writes of the old type of English farmer, rigidly conservative and...

AN AMBASSAIOR'S MEMOIRS. By Maurice Paiéologue (Last French Ambassador to

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the Russian Court). '3 Vols. (Hutchinson. 18s. a volume.) Miasmas are the life-blood of history—enlivening and illumining the dull pages of diplomatic correspondence, and...

STORIES NEAR AND FAR. By William J. Locke. (The Bodley

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Head. 7s. 6d.)—A collection of stories by Mr. W. J. Locke is something of an event for those multitudes of readers who have enjoyed and reread his numerous novels. But the...

DESERT, 4 . LEGEND. „ By Martin Armstrong : (Cape. 7s. 6d.)—Mr.

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Armstrong relates in alniost conscientiously detailed manner the experience of a young Alexandrian sybarite who,. recoiling from hedonism after an unfortunately terminated-love...

LECTURES IN LONDON

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Monday, July 12th, at 3.30 p.m. Mr. F. G. Butler, I.C.S., will read a paper on Somx Porms or DIFFERENCE IN THE CRIMINAL LAW or ErroLswn AND INDIA. Under the auspices of the East...

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FINANCE-P1JBLIC AND PRIVATE

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INDUSTRY AND THE NATIONAL REVENUE BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. IT goes without saying that National Revenue derived from taxation depends for its volume upon the prosperity of the...

BOOKS RECOMMENDED

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gISCELLANEOUS.-An Outline of Abnormal Psychology. By William McDougall. (Methuen. 15s.)-Winchester College. By the Winchester . College Archaeological Society. (P. and G. Wells,...

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TnE absence of definite signs of progress towards peace in

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the coal trade and the large number of new issues which are being brought out have had the effect of slightly checking the im- provement in gilt-edged stocks which had been...