11 SEPTEMBER 1926

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This meeting took place on Monday afternoon and at the

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end of a long discussion the owners' .representatives promised to convey the Government's arguments to the Central Committee of the Mining Association. The meet- ing was really...

NEWS OF THE WEEK

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UT HEN we said last week that Mr. Churchill had created a wholly new situation we were not mistaken, though no one could have foretold that there would be such a revolution in...

The next important event was that the Executive of the

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Miners' Federation wrote to Mr. Churchill, inviting him to convene and attend a Conference of the owners and the miners. " We are prepared," wrote Mr. Cook, " to enter into...

We must now look back on the incidents which have

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thus brought Mr. Churchill on to the war path. On Thursday, September 2nd, the Delegate Conference of the Miners' Federation, upon which the Executive of the Federation had...

On Tuesday the Central Committee of the Mining Association considered

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Mr. Churchill's statement. A letter was sent to the Government saying that the Committee " fully endorsed the views " that had been expressed on their behalf by Mr. Evan...

EDITORIAL AND PUBLISHING OFFICES : 13 York Street, Covent Garden,

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London, W.C. 2.—A Subscription to the SPECTATOR :wets Thirty Shilling. per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The SPECTATOR is registered as a Newspaper. The...

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On Wednesday Germany was accepted as a member of the

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League and as a permanent member of the Council. This very important event marks the end of the period in which the League was open to the reproach that it was merely a...

* * * The general ground of the criticism is

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that the increased size of the Council will make it unwieldy and that the increase. is unnecessary now that Brazil has left the League and Spain is at present refusing to attend...

The Canadian election campaign is drawing to its close. There

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is no sign that. Lord Byng's .action over the dissolution has aroused any feeling against himself or the Mother Country. The old political decisions remain the important ones....

If we arc not mistaken, Mr. Churchill in his present

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mood will apply pressure if necessary. What sort of pressure ? The Government could repeal the Hours Act, or under the special legislation with which they are fortified they...

The news from China is grave. British ships have been

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engaged on that classical scene of naval fighting, the Yangtze River. The Cantonese troops have had no reverse yet to their success in moving northward. The Hong Kong...

If we are not misled by the reports, Sir Austen

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Chamberlain seems to have delivered a rebuking homily, of which we greatly doubt the wisdom; to the Mandates Commission. The Commission has issued a very searching questionnaire...

Further naval news comes from Canton where the so-called "

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strike pickets " that attempt to enforce the boycott of Hang-Kong began firing .on the traffic between there and Shameen, the foreign settlement which is-British property, in...

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The Referendum in Australia is not yet complete when we

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write, but it shows so far a distinct majority against Mr. Bruce's proposals for further Federal powers in industrial matters. There were two proposals, the first of which aimed...

It is only fair to add, however, that Mr. Pugh

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remarked that the weapon should' fie reserved for occasions when the wage-earners were having terms forced upon them Which had not been the subject of negotiation and collective...

The Trades Union Congress opened at Bournemouth on Monday. It

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had long been anticipated by trade unionists with excitement or dread, because it was expected that the whole policy of the General Strike would be debated and that the General...

On Monday night people in parts of England as far

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apart as Cumberland and Kent were astonished by a blinding flash of blue light which illuminated the sky and lasted for several seconds. There is little doubt that it was caused...

The owners and workers who perform the daily public service

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of producing the Manchester Guardian have together worked out a scheme by which comes into being " The Manchester Guardian and Evening News Society." This is a most interesting...

We gather that Australian thought on Mr. Bruce's latest proposals

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has been confused. Voting was com- pulsory, and many persons, though they voted to escape a penalty, hardly knew what they were voting about. People in this frame of mind are...

We greatly regret to record a ghastly catastrophe in the

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little Irish village of Drumcollogher, in County Limerick, where at least forty-eight persons were burned to death at a cinema performance. The building was evidently quite...

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 101 * ; on Wednesday week 101* ; a year ago 101*. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 851 ; on Wednesday...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY

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TO OUR READERS w E must add something to what we said last week about the forthcoming publication in the Spectator of the most interesting portions of the book just written by...

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THE SITUATION IN SPAIN

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A FEW days ago, when news came of serious unrest in the Spanish Army, it looked as though the Dictator, General Primo de Rivera, Marquis de Estella, was approaching his fall....

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WHITE WOMEN IN THE AUSTRALIAN TROPICS

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BY J. S. C. ELKIN - crow, M.D., D.P.H. Director, Division of Tropical Hygiene. Commonwealth Department of Health, of Australia. T ROPICAL Australia is a very large country—more...

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NATURAL LUXURIES FOR INDUSTRIAL. WORKERS

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I N days when some of our economies are transparent extravagances (as if one bought a motor-car to save shoe-leather, or the Oxford Dictionary to ascertain how to spell " bread...

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SEEING THE WORLD.

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S OME time ago Mr. Selfridge said that it was ridiculous to spend one's leisure lying in a deck-chair, and that one could combine pleasure with profit by travelling f Irther and...

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THE CASE FOR OSTEOPATHY

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By ROBERT LYND. O STEOPATHY has recently been the subject of heated and lively debate both in the Press and in Parliament. Public opinion has • been growing steadily in its...

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A JOURNEY THROUGH SPACE

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T o most people Fabre is the observer, moving with head bent to study the secrets of the insect world. They are not aware that this interest was only part of that comprehensive...

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SPECTABILIA

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TEE increased practicability of the aeroplane promises a solution to one of Australia's problems, that of pro- viding proper medical aid for small populations spread over very...

. ' IMPLACABLE ' COMES HOME

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SHE came in early upon a still morning, stealing • along like a wraith in the wake of the tug, beneath the low hills of Falmouth harbour, illumined for a moment as she crossed...

DIREcr subscribers who are changing their addresses are asked to

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notify the Manager of the SPECTATOR BEFORE MIDDAY ox MONDAY or nem WEEK. The previous address to Which the paper has been sent should be quoted in each case.

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THE CINEMA

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MANON LESCAUT AT THE NEW GALLERY AFTER a summer without excitements for film enthu siasts, save perhaps the technical triumphs of The Rig Parade, one welcomes the fall of the...

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CORRESPONDENCE

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A LETTER FROM SWITZERLAND [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Switzerland was formerly called the " Playground of Europe," but it is fast becoming the playground of the...

THE THEATRE

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MR, COWARD DISCOVERS HIS HEART [" THE QUEEN WAS IN THE PARLOUR." By NOEL COWARD. ST. MARTIN'S.] IN his new play (so charmingly named) Mr. Coward has made an immense leap...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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RUMANIAN AGRICULTURE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —I much appreciated the letter published last week from your Bucharest correspondent, and am in entire agreement with...

AMERICAN AND BRITISH HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT [To the Editor of the

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SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May one who has lived both in Old England and New England offer a few comments on the letter of our American sister last week ? She obviously knows nothing...

GLADSTONE AND BURKE : AN UNCONSCIOUS PLAGIARISM [To the Editor

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of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—The extracts lately quoted in the Sunday Times from Lord Oxford's forthcoming Fifty Years of Parliamentary Life have once more drawn attention to a...

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CAN WE THEN BELIEVE ?

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—With reference to " A Plain Man's " letter in your issue of August 28th, I should like to point out that St. Luke's language does not...

THE CHURCH AND POLITICS

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —The controversy between the Bishops who intervened in the mining dispute, and the Bishops who thought that such interference was outside...

WHO WAS THE LOVED DISCIPLE ?

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Among the internal evidences that John was the writer of the Fourth Gospel, and the beloved disciple, are the intimate relations between...

LITERARY COINCIDENCES

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is as follows :— Volney, in his Ruins of Empires, written about 1784, Chapter 2, says :- " Who knows but that hereafter some traveller like myself trill sit down upon the...

THE LATE MARQUIS DE VILLALOBAR

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] is now some months since the death of the Marquis de Vilialobar who was the Spanish Ambassador at Brussels during the War. So little notice was...

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LOW TEMPERATURE CARBONIZATION [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Sin,—Although professionally connected with what I might call the rival industry of fuel-oil in Mexico, I am greatly interested in your very laudable efforts to further the more...

POETRY

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THE LAST HORSE (It is said that Winter comes in on the tail of the last St. Leger Horse.) AUTUMN'S clipped her golden tresses, And the Paddock's gay with dresses Frills and lace...

A TINKER'S DAM [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—in

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the Spectator of the 28th ult., the writer of " Theo- phrastus in Piccadilly," speaks of " not caring a tinker's curse." Should this not be a tinker's dam—a clout used in...

A LATIN " HOWLER " [To the Editor of the

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SPECTATOR.] Sra,—You may like to add this to the Latin " howlers " which have appeared from time to time in the Spectator. The new Richmond Hospital in Dublin, opened some...

A NORTH COUNTRY PROVERB [To . the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Sin,—" Many a mickle makes a muclde " is so complete in alliteration and so happy in assonance that we need not be surprised at its _currency ; but we in the North are greatly...

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THE SOUL OF ENGLAND

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England. By Dean Inge. (Bann. las. 6d.) ENGLAND is a, name to conjure with. Yet no good book about England has ever been written, and the word has not been popular in titles....

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" The Glory of Grey " is a delightful essay

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in which Mr. Chesterton rightly says that he will continue to praise the British climate till he dies-even if he dies of it. " Only in our own romantic country have you the...

How a Slipper limpet devours oyster beds and changes its

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sex from male to female, the determination of sex, sublimation, repression, and questions such as " are women inherently inferior to men ? " are all dealt with in Professor John...

An Arcadian Calendar, by Mr. Marcus Woodward (Bles, 6s.), is

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a charming collection of essays about country things, which originally appeared in the Morning Post.

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS

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The Proceedings of the Conference of Governors of the East African Dependencies (Waterlow and Sons, 2s. 6d.) is an imposing and rather forbidding report, of importance none the...

Our banks have not yet adopted transatlantic methods (such, for

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instance, as watching the notices of births and writing to each happy mother to say " we have just opened a deposit account in your son's name with one dollar, contributed by...

We are sorry that Mr. C. E. M. Joad has

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written The Babbitt Warren (Paul, Trench, Trubner, 6s.). On matters of philosophy Mr. Joad has often delighted our readers with his brilliant expositions, but on the United...

We have rarely space to mention second editions, but To

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Mesopotamia and Kurdistan in Disguise, by the-late./dr..E,..B. Soane, is a- cla.ssic worthy to rank with Eothen, and is, there- fore an exception. For some years it has been out...

BOOKS RECOMMENDED

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TRAVEL.-Sixty four Years in Ceylon. By F. Lewis. (Cam- bridge University Press. 15s.),--intpresgicrns of Nigeria. 1925. By Douglas Fraser. (Herbert Jenkins. 10s. Od.) -The...

AMUSEMENTS OF LONDON

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NEW GALLERY, REGENT STREET. -1114NO N LESCAIIT. Directed by 111= Arthur Robison yap made " Warning Shadows " this version of the famous romance is well worth seeing. MARBLE A...

NEXT WEEK - Mr. Rudyard Kipling's Debits and Credits.

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Also Mr. J. St. Lee - Strache'y'S Am erican SoUndi!rgs, ieviciced by John Buchan . _ .

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A GREAT IRISHMAN

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The Lite of J. D. Bourchier. By Lady Grogan. (Hurst and Blackett. 18s. net.) To describe or criticize adequately the life of James Bourchier would entail a full discussion of...

THE IRON• AGE

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S; billa ; or the Revival - of Prophecy. By C. A. Mace. (Kegan Paul. 2s. 6d. net.) • To many it will seem a dismal future that Mr. Mace foresees. Ile promises material advances,...

PRINNEY

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George IV. By Shane Leslie. (Been. 12s. GI) IF it isn't too tiresome, let us run over a few of the leading characteristics of George IV—that august monarch whom Mr. Leslie...

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GREAT PHILOSOPHERS

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The Story of Philosophy. By Will Distant. (Bonn. 25s. net.) THERE is an advantage in treating philosophy as " the expres- sion of great philosophers." We are apt to forget, when...

MR. FORD—A FRANCISCAN t

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To-day and To-morrow. By Henry Ford, (Heinemann. 12s. 6d.) ALTHOUGH some of us are a little bored with accounts of American industrial methods, ,which promise an undoubte(...

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A HEADMASTER'S SHOCKER

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The Count in Kensington : An exciting story. By Cyril A. Alington. (Herbert Jenkins. 7s. 6d.) THE day when serious people thought it undignified to contribute to popular tastes...

THE MAGAZINES

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Tan Nineteenth Century opens with an article on War Debt s by Mr. A. Wyatt Tilby, entitled " America Quixote or Shylock ? " For America the writer argues " it was impos- sible...

THE GENIUS BY THE HEARTH

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Joseph Conrad as I Knew Him. By Jessie Conrad. (Heine. mann. 6s..) This book lies properly outside the realm of critical analysis. It is a direct and artless.personal document...

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FICTION

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THE OLD BRIDGE. By William J. Locke. (The Bodley Head. 7s. 6d.)—Perella Annaway, the daughter of an irresponsible Olympian of Fleet Street, supplemented her meagre allowance by...

CHRISTIE'S, 1766-1925. By H. C. MARILLIER. (Constable. £2 2s.)—This is

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a wholly charming and delightful volume, telling the story of the great auction rooms from the days of James Christie the first, the Specious Orator," whom we see excellently...

THE NOTE-BOOKS OF SAMUEL . BUTLER.. . Shrews- bury Edition. Edited by

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Henry Festing Jones and A. T. Bartholomew. Vol. 20. (Jonathan Cape. £21 the set.) —Samuel Butler could not have desired a more attractive or better edited set of his, works than...

CURRENT LITERATURE

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A HANDBOOK OF FLOWERING TREES AND SHRUBS FOR GARDENERS. By R. C. Norcurr. (Hopkinson & Co. 12s. 6d.)—Flowering shrubs are now a separate and most popular department of...

FAR END. By May Sinclair. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d. net.) —Novels

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about novelists are often disappointing. If we are given samples of their works we feel that they are not so good as the book makes out. The author has not whole-heartcdly...

• 'SCUTCHEON FARM. By Mrs. J. 0. Arnold. (Nelson. 7s.

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6d. net.)--A gentle tale of devotion and suffering, set in the Lake District' The heroine, a woman of exceptional firmness of character, is at once a victim of an unhappy marr...

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A HARE'S SANCTUARY.

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A good many anecdotes have been told recently of the sudden appeal of birds and other animals to mankind at times of stress. The best incident that I know of was told me by an...

PASSING THE LOVE OF WOMEN. By Guiseppe Bianco. (Cassell. 7s.

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6d. net.)—Though the lurid paper- jacket of this novel suggests that the contents are sheer melodrama, in fact its tale of a more than ordinary affection between one brother for...

PLEASANT NOVELS

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WE, all of - us, have a favourite day-dream as to what we should do if we were given a considerable sum of money. Audrey Farrant, Mr. Whitelaw's heroine in The Island of Romance...

LANDLORDS AND WEEDS.

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How many small interesting facts are only discovered by help of such thorough peregrinations as a sportsman makes early in September. The fields belonging to different farmers...

A BLIND PIG'S FRIEND.

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A great many animals help one another in distress, though none rival the mothers in this regard, unless it be the male partridge. The best example that ever I can quote concerns...

HANDS UNSEEN. By Herman Landon. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Landon's

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plot is almost too full of entangle- ment. There are innocent men involved in shady deeds, criminals who take up crime from the noblest of motives, betrayals and...

COUNTRY LIFE AND SPORT

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HARVEST AND PARTRIDGES. With what completeness harvest hides and protects wild life over English fields may be inferred from the experience of the first two weeks of September...

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FINANCE-PUBLIC AND PRIVATE IT is always regrettable when matters connected

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with finance and economics become so affected by political considerations as to cause them to become mere party cries. In no direction is this demonstrated more clearly than as...

GIRLS AND LAWN TENNIS.

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A plea from a schoolboy has reached me on the subject of lawn tennis as contrasted with cricket. He laments that when lie comes home for the summer holidays he finds himself...

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NOBEL'S PROGRESS

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A good feature of this Company for some time past has been the soundness of 'its balance-sheet, and while the recent increase in the dividend on the Ordinary and Deferred Shares...

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BRICK PROFITS The latest Report of Eastwoods, Limited, the well-known brick company, thoroughly justifies the hopeful view taken by the Directors last year and the increase...

Purely speculative transactions in securities, based on contango facilities, are

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undoubtedly on a much smaller scale than in the pre-War days, and, by reason of that fact, markets are somewhat less sensitive to external influences, whether in foreign or...

CONTINENTAL Acrivrrms With all deference both to the power and

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the willingness of Mr. Loewenstein to make large loans to Belgium and to France, the City is not disposed to give too much heed to the descriptive and rather sensational cables...