if there should be a national engineering lock-out. For- tunately the • employers have decided to postpone- the operation of the notices which would have taken effect on...

for further consideration. We pay it the compli- ment of saying that it deserves something very different from a hurried judgment. But here we may summarize the more "important...

a system- of family allowances, of profit-sharing schemes, of pithead baths, and the custom . of annual holidays with pay " when prosperity returns.", The interlocking of the...

T HE way in which the Report of the Coal Commission is- used- will determine the course and temper of industry as well as its degree of prosperity for years to come. The...

the whole industry is neede4t. . Coal rights and mineral rights should be acquired by the. State and administered by , a Coal Commission, Aloyal- ties, no doubt, affect only...

London, IV:G.2.A Subscription to the " Spectator" costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. Registered as a Newspaper. The Postage on this...

Swarajists made their threatened demonstration against the Government and walked out of the House. One has only to remember the facts of the Budget to understand what a...

to Geneva, but quickly returned to Paris to take part in the negotiations for a new Cabinet. The President first of all invited M. Herriot to form a Govern- ment, but M. Herriot...

Government fell. He had moved a vote of confidence on the question of the proposed tax on payments, and there was an unexpected junction of the Left and .moderate groups against...

we want to point out is that if Sir Austen Chamberlain would state British policy in the large so that it could not be misunderstood, the little detached questions of honour...

" congenitally incapable " of dealing with finance. M. Lamoureux, the Reporter of the Finance Commission, who ought to know as his Commission itself had treated M. Doumer's Bill...

controversy over the Council of the League of Nations, and need not say much more of the important debate in the House of Commons on Thursday, March 4th, than that it was a...

the Swedish policy for which we cannot be sufficiently thankful. The conduct of the Swedish representatives at Geneva is heroically rigid. They refuse to join in any of the...

at the Hoe works is not the only issue. Part of the impulse which is driving the strikers on comes from the general discontent with wages in the engineering industry. Wages vary...

after the ideal of high wages combined with cheap production— the ideal that has been realized in America. But now that the hunt has started it is proceeding merrily and with a...

not likely that certification by the Government will be necessary. The Budget is notable for other things besides the financial benefits which the Swarajists have failed to...

burned down. We shall not go into mourning. The site on the banks of the river is magnificent, but the theatre was ugly ; its colour was painful ; and the accommodation for pro-...

are cut off from both sea and land communica- tions. Reuter says that during the past few days the Taku forts have fired indiscriminately at all vessels which have tried to pass...

pictures by Constable from the National Gallery and one by Birket Foster from the Guildhall . Art Gallery. The Constables were apparently stolen by a visitor in broad daylight....

at the end of the year the work of the British Broadcasting Company should be taken over by a Commission under Parliament with the Postmaster-General acting as its...

of the Assembly, declared that as the House was clearly no longer representative the Government ought to bring forward only uncontroversial business. If it did not do so, he...

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1014; on Wednesday week 1014; a year ago 101 4. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 874 ; on Wednesday...

AGUE " Air BRIAND is dead ; long live M. Briand ! " The - 0 - 1 - • old words almost summarize the situation in France.; no sooner had M. Briand fallen from power than he...

fact that the one great country in Europe which is most aghast at the growing multiplicity and complexity of tariffs is the one where the tariff system was first of all reduced...

CAMPAIGNS T ET us make the opposite assumption to that of the a last article—that our Air Force wins the initial bout for supremacy. What would be its functions in the course of...

T ANCASIIIRE is again giving the lead to other parts 4 of Great Britain. The Report of the Manchester and District Joint Advisory Committee, published a few days ago, is the...

BY NEW MEMBER. T HE attention of members has been concentrated during the past week on events outside the House of Commons. The -efforts -of Sir Austen Chaniberlain at Geneva...

IV.—ULTIMATE AMERICA T HE Pioneers of the American West chased the ridges of the mountains before them in the spirit of huntsmen. They could not rest till the gleam of the...

o- the - Committee appointed to study tests for drunkenness : nor are the almost insuperable difficulties - of the - Subject more likely to be surmounted in virtue of the fact...

iv all know and love Mr. Kipling's Jungle Book ; those who have seen something of jungle life perhaps love it best, for its wonderful touches grip them closer. To me the most...

of the various animal protection societies at the Central Hall, Westminster, presided over by Mrs. Reginald McKenna-- and an excellent chairman she made. The object of the...

year simply because the la* does not 'compel cyclists to carry a rear light. -By 268 votes to 71 the House of Commons agreed to the second reading of Captain Brass'S Bill last...

the Protection of Animals in Spain has secured the abolition of the picador turn at bull-fights. Aecording to the Society's paper, Noliciero del Lunes, a decree is to be issued...

THE Imperial Conference in October should be one of the most important ever•held. High on the agenda paper will be the 'question of the diplomatic unity of the British...

not to be too far in advance of public opinion. Let the animal societies begin by pressing for two immediate reforms, and they will probably be successful. Let it be made...

The talk turned on "The Thief of Baghdad," which Mr. Douglas Fairbanks had just produced. Sargent had been to Hollywood and knew every mechanical detail of the production : how...

VIC.] WHEN Mr. Robert Atkins, accompanied by the good wishes of grateful thousands, left the Waterloo Road to seek new fields to conquer, there were dark mutterings that Mr....

YOUTH ON THE STAGE "EDWARD IL"—CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE—THE MARLOWE DRAMATIC SOCIETY, CAMBRIDGE.] IT was suggested in this column a few weeks ago that Oxford nowadays permits...

byterian minister and began life in the shipyards at Glasgow. One day he picked up a Canada Year Book and decided to emigrate. This was in 1880. He did various jobs, chiefly...

A LETTER FROM BUCHAREST [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SUL,—The topic of the day is still the renunciation by Prince Charles of all his rights. The news came as a...

NINETEENTH CENTURY [TirE FRENCH GALLERY, 120 PALL MALL.] Tax significance of this exhibition centres in the fact that all of these artists, whose works are represented here,...

THE TWO WORCESTERS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—" Peace on earth, good will to men " is to-day the in- sistent cry of humanity. Never before in the history of the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-1 observe in, your issue of February 6th an article headed "Canada and the United States," in which the Canadian view is given by " An...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The article on " Steel Houses " by the Duke of Atholl in the Spectator of February 27th was quoted several times during the debate on the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—May I suggest that your correspondent, Mr. C. F. Ryder, did not pay the author of England's Green and Pleasant Land the compliment of...

• should not presume to challenge the opinion of the Public Prosecutor a few weeks ago that the men who ran away with a van load of newspapers could not be convicted of...

SIR,—Much is being said to-day on a subject that has at last come into its own, viz., education. But nearly all that we have heard or read for weeks is in fierce denunciation of...

Sin,—With your permission, it is in justice to Sheffield- to point out a few fallacies in your leading article on " Smoke Abatement " in the Spectator of March 6th. Sheffield...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I was in hopes that the communication on this ease in your issue of February 13th would not produce correspondence, and that we should be...

[To the Editor of the Srze-reeoa.] IStn,—Our deep gratitude is due to " E. B. P." for his able and most encouraging review of Songs of Praise. The eleven hymns from the...

[To the Editor of the SeceTieroa.] Sin,—With submission, I think Mr. Strachey in attempting to explain a certain English peculiarity is trying to explain the inexplicable, a...

[To the Editor of the Sew-I-Aeon.] Sra,—May we, through your courtesy, draw the attention of your readers to the celebration throughout Scotland of the annual " Animals' Welfare...

by Miss Violet Douglas- Pennant, which were settled on Thursday, Mardi 4th, trium- phantly in her favour, were the best possible demonstration of the way in which she has...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —If the writer of the article " A Farm Waggoner " is accurate in his statements he should bring his case to the notice of the Agricultural...

SHAMROCKS A striven of shamrocks, from the sod Saint Patrick trod, Brings dreams and visions back to me Across the sea. An island rises moist and green, Where grey clouds...

SIR,—The Pitman's Pay has long been out of print, but I think Mr. R. D. Steedman, Savile Row, Newcastle-on-Tyne, is certain to have a copy in his shop or could easily find one...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The "Specimen Days" make interesting reading. After each one I have thought " no harder than mine !" especially as the writers spend more...

RACINE REVEALED [COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York Times.] The Life Racine. By Mary Duclaux (A. Mary F. Robinson). (Fisher Unwin. 10s. 6d. net.) HERE...

The Editor offers a prize of £5 for a quotation applicable to the University Boat Race. WARNING :--We hive set a very short time limit to this competition. Quotations need not...

The Travels in India of that delightful but rather inconse. quent traveller, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier has been repub- lished by the Oxford University Press. (Two volumes. 9s....

additional Material, have been published under the title The Worship of Nature (Hutehinson. 25s.). This is one of the most important books of the year, and will be fully •...

(Williams and Norgate, 36.- 6d.) is a collection of short stories about modern war. Captain- Britten Austin-has great powers of description and narrative. But he has written...

fac- simile of the fragment of the Cologne edition of Tyndalei Translation of the New Testament, with a masterly introduction by Professor A. W. Pollard. Tyndale " lived like a...

his peculiar views, was deported from the United States (where revolutionaries are not 'popular) in Deeeinber, 1919. He met his friends, Lenin, Trotsky, Karakhari and all their...

that ever I beheld "—as a contemporary wrote of - the author of " To Lucasta on Going to the Wars," adorns the frontispiece of Mr. Wilkinson's very beautiful edition of the...

The Editor offered a prize of £5 for a report . on ten Biographies for Beginners." The judgments of our competitors were furiously at variance. One would praise to the skies. a...

invited to inform the many thousands of readers of the Srzerszoa, by advertising in the Small Classified advertisement columns. Details of the cost—which is very low-=will -be...

.$p e natal' No. 5098.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1926. [G R ATIS.

The History of Don Quixote. Translated by Thomas Shelton. (Navarre Society. £3 3s.) This superb edition by the Navarre. Society of Shelton's translation of Don Quixote, has...

ALONG the lifted line of sombre green The sunset bonfire calms in golden space ; The one hedge-oak against the splendour seen Like a squat idol grossly stares at grace ; The...

LONDON: MARCH 1331, 1926.

PROFESSOR Mornfaro, at the close of the War when the Capital Levy and other proposals for meeting national in- debtedness were much in the air, published in Italy certain novel...

The Story of the 29th Division. By Captain Stair _Gillon. (London : Nelson and Sons. 15s. net.) 2 Vols. (Edinburgh : Oliver and Boyd. 25s. net.) Tim four books under notice...

IT would probably be difficult to find two books dealing, both seriously, with the same period of history more different in style and method than these two. Behind the...

IT was surely one of the marvels of the seventeenth century, that in a quiet country physician, -taking his walks by the valley of the Usk, the spirit' of_the Age of Faith...

The Canning Wonder. By Arthur Machen. (Chatto and Windus. 108. 6d.) ONE witness, as Anatole France observed when he was making a study of history, may easily be trusted ; more...

Food : Its Use and Abuse. By Kate Platt, M.D., B.Sc. (The Modern Health Books : Faber and Gwyer, Ltd. 2e. &I.) Mental Invalids. By C. C. Easterbrook, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P.Ig....

Wagner As Man and Artist. By Ernest Newman. (Bodley Head. 12s. 6d.) IT will be welcome news to all music-lovers to learn that Mr. Ernest Newman's searching study of Wagner,...

Mary .Elizabeth Haldane. Edited by Her Daughter. (Hodder and Stoughton. 5s.) - - AN intense and peculiar interest attaches to this short memoir of Mary Elizabeth Haldane—a...

LORD KERRY inherits the interest that a man ought to possess in his family papers. Some of them come from the Comte de Flahault, Lord _Lansdowne's grandfather, who married...

The Confessions of a Capitalist. By Sir E. J. P. Bonn. (Hutchinson and Co. 18s. net.) Tars is a most refreshing book. Sir Ernest Berm apologizes for its egotism on the ground...

D.D. What Mean Ye by These Stones? By J. M. C. Crum, M.A. A Religion for Monday Morning. By K. E. Maclean, B.A. (S.P.C.K. ls.). These little booklets belong to " The Churchman's...

LEICESTERSHIRE - Highways and Byways in Leicestershire. By J. B. Firth. Mn. Frani has written a most interesting book on Leicester- shire for the admirable" Highways and...

The Adventure of Wrangel Island. By Vilhjalmur Stefansson. (Cape. 18s.) The Adventure of Wrangel Island. By Vilhjalmur Stefansson. (Cape. 18s.) THIS is the story of an Arctic...

99 Eetter_I.a.ne,.E.C. 4, and--Ptiblishett-by Tug SpacTsToa, Lip., at their Offices, No. 13 Yoik Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C. 2. Saturday, March 13, 1926,

her entourage, Miss Katherine Anthony has made an interesting book of Catherine the Great (Cape, 12s. 6d.), and a book, moreover, as free as its subject allows of the ugly...

(Kegan Paul, 3s. 6d.), which looks wisely on the world of to-morrow, is Nuntius, by Mr. Gilbert Russell. The future of advertising is very sanely considered here, and although...

6d.) supplies a need. If we want to be oracular, it is wise to be so in Johnson's coinpany : here is a reference- book'for pundits. " I am always angry when I hear ancient...

A Boit& of Wine: By P. Morton Shand. (Guy Chapman. 155. net.) MR. SHANP was given a thorough schooling in the appreciation of wine. His father and his grandfather before him...

Skyways. By Alan J. Cobham. (Nisbet. 15s.) WE will nose-dive straight into the middle of Mr. Cobham's book and read his graphic account of how he " rushed " some photographs of...

Humoresque. By Humbert Wolfe. (Bean. N.) Tins book of poems is deeply interesting, for it makes us take part in the struggle of a quick, subtle, and perhaps wickedly proud...

Now that the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, we turn with pleasure to page 20 of the excellent Road Atlas-Guide to Great Britain, issued by Messrs. Philip at 3s. 6d.,...

IN the Nineteenth Century Captain M. D. Kennedy writes of "'The Japanese Fighting Forces and Disarmament." The article attempts to prove that there is a strong public opinion...

Green Ink. By J. S. Fletcher. (Herbert Jenkins. 7s. 6d. net.)—Although Mr. J. S. Fletcher does better work when he is unravelling_ a complicated crime, these short sketches of...

has become an enthusiast for a World State. His first step towards substituting a United States of the World for the League of Nations would be to form an " Europa Com- rnunis "...

Lit. (English Association. is. net.) Ix is a pleasure to find Dr. Chambers with a good word to say for Castlereagh, for Southey and Wordsworth, and for the general tone of the...

THE TYPIST'S CHARTER Arrozesmith are so familiar that it is something of a surprise to meet an earlier one of his novels, now published in England for the first time. It is...

ik SHORT HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL CHRISTENDOM. IT used to be taken for granted that the Middle Ages made a chapter of human history that was rather shameful and Certainly...

Of the various factors I have enumerated foremost place must be given to the situation at Geneva and the French Crisis. Without,. however, desiring to attribute aqy omniscient...

(Heinemann. 7s. 6d net.)-A collection of stones gathered from many periodicals must necessarily vary widely ; and there is little in common between the hilarious wit of " Back...

year we welcomed Mrs. Victor Rickard's novel Upstairs as an admirable example of the intellectual mystery story. Her present story is on these same lines, but it must be...

BY ARTHUR. W. KIDDY. ON more than one occasion, when commenting upon the comparative stagnation of markets since the beginning of the year, I have attributed the fact to the...

net.)- -The annals of the poor, even in Gray's time, were probably far from simple ; to-day they can be very com- plicated indeed. Even so, however, Mr. Hyde's heroine and hero...

be a great mistake to judge by the beginning of this novel that it consisted of all " whip " and no " cream." The opening is so impressionistic that it is a little difficult to...

appears to be a first book and, although there is a certain promise about it, the story is planned on too large a scale and the episodes tend to repetition. The Admir- able...

THE FINE Awrs.-Carillon Music and Singing Towers of the Old World and the New. By W. Gorham Rice. (Bodley Head. 16s.)-Architedure Explained. By Howard Robertson. (Bean. 7s....

It seems probable that almost before this article appears in print the Report of the Coal Commission will have been published and that there will have been favourable...

Not the leaSt interesting leatUre during the past week has been the the_ reports of the AssOCiated. Portland:Cement Coinpany and the British Portland Cement Company. After an...

have acceded to the . request , at the recent General Meeting to put. forward a . - scheme for fusing the , Deferred Ordinary, the,Ordinary " A " and the Ordinary " stocks....

Railway - is undoubtedlY showing considerable progress, and the prospects are sufficiently bright to warrant hopes of further improvement. - Neverthe- less, under the present...

With regard to the recent slurnp in Wall -Street there is little which need be said in the way of explanation or comment, _ for the main facts_ are simple. -Both in real estate...

With regard to the situation in France it certainly ca nnot be said that developments have been along lines that were unforeseen. For Some time past now the impression has...

Especial interest attaches to the latest Annual Report of the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society, as it is the first which has appeared since the control of the 'Company...

The increasing interest taken in the great business of Courtaulds was evidenced by the crowded gathering of share- holders which attended the recent meeting at the Great Hall at...