16 MAY 1925

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After the recent Nouncil of - Ministers it was said that

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M. Caillaux saw his way to introchice economies to the value of £7,000,000 a year, but we still do not know hovi he is going to do . it. Nor do we see what M. Caillaux is doing...

* * As regards new taxation, M. Caillaux spoke of

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raising the Income Tax, particularly on large incomes and on . those deriVed from agriculture, and of raising the price of tobacco. 'He also intends to put higher taxes on sugar...

M. Caillaux is- therefore in an extremely difficult position ;

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he plainly wants to do the 'right thing, but a :certain - caution even , it - it were not wise would be inevitable; 'since . h e has to get a promise of support froni7''pettple...

Iti confessing that he could not get on without further

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loans or _credit transactions this year, M. Caillaux said that the service of the principal loan would be provided for by such reparations as could reasonably be expected from...

NEWS OF THE - WEEK V A VERY eonntry•in Europe would feel ,vastly relieved

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g 2 by the production of satisfactory. - evidence that Prance at last means to face iealities and put her finaneial house in order. - - The Statement - which M. Caillaux made to...

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garden, London,_W .C. 2.—A Subscription to The "Spectator" costs Thirty Shillings per annum, .includirig pOsiab to any pail of tlu, work'. The Postage on this isr inland. foreign;

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On the whole we see even more reason than before

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to believe that Hindenburg's election will not be injurious to the international negotiations for a rapprochement if only France does not lose her head. The Matin has published...

On Monday it was the turn of the silk duties.

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Mr. Bromfield and Mr. Mackinder, Labour members, con- tended that the duties would drive prices up and by depressing a growing trade cause unemployment. Italian competition in...

It is strange news from Russia that Trotsky, after being

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deprived of his offices and sent away from Moscow in disgrace, has been recalled. He had merely advocated an economic policy which Lenin himself would probably have advocated if...

With regard to the Government's Pensions scheme we must wait

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for any information of value till next Tuesday when Mr. Neville Chamberlain will mote the second reading of the Bill. What we are particularly anxious to know is the estimated...

The Budget debates have gone, on the whole, more kindly

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to the Government than seemed likely a week ago when the reaction against Mr. Churchill first declared itself. On Thursday, May 7th, he defended the McKenna duties. He argued...

On Monday, May 11th, Field-Marshal von Hindenburg travelled from Hanover

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to take up his duties as President of the German Reichstag in Berlin. His entry took place amid an orderly rather than universally enthusiastic welcome. The old Imperial colours...

Those who try, in spite of all discouragements, to wish

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the Turks well have received another shock. There was one Turkish editor who stood head and shoulders above his colleagues, Hussein - Jahid Bey, and this able and enlightened...

We agree that the tax on artificial silk is a

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very inopportune tax on a raw material. Tariff reformers and Free Traders, though they disagreed about everything else, always agreed that raw materials, so far as they could be...

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The death of Mr. W. F. Massey, who had been

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Prime Minister of New Zealand for thirteen years, means another great loss to the British Empire. Those who knew Mr. Massey will long remember his geniality, his simplicity and...

The three Members of Parliament, representing the three political parties,

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Mr. Ormsby-Gore, Major Church and Mr. Linfield, who were appointed by Mr. Thomas Last July as the " East Africa Commission," have issued an exceedingly interesting Report (Cmd....

The Commissioners evidently realized the difficulties. The world needs the

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produce of these rich lands and we refuse to admit that British or other civilized settlers are committing any crime in trying to make the land productive. The mass of the...

Death has taken a heavy toll lately of some of

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our greatest public servants, but no loss causes more general sorrow than that of Lord Milner who died on Wednesday. He will have an important place in history as one of the "...

* * * * Later at the Board of Inland

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Revenue Milner helped to work out Harcourt's Death Duties. In 1897 he went to South Africa to adjust, if possible, the bad relations of Dutch and British, and no period of his...

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

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on March 5th, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Thursday 99f; on Thursday week 100; a year ago 1001c. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Thursday 87i ; on Thursday week 88} ; a...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY

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THE PEOPLE'S REMEMBRANCE rI IHE first Report of the Royal Commission on Food Prices was published on Saturday last. It is an interim Report, for it deals only with wheat and...

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MOROCCO AGAIN

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A S we ventured to prophesy some months ago, the young Moorish leader, Abdel Krim, is proving himself a man to be reckoned with. About a fortnight ago his scouts began to...

A METHOD OF E XTI NG LTIS I I IN(

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THE NATIONAL DEBT By A. HER vEr HoiliE. [We have frequently proposed that the National Debt should bo extinguished by a system of terminable annuities. Our argument in favour...

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IRELAND AFTER SIX YEARS

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II. — THE IRISH FREE STATE BY OVERSEA IRISHMAN. _A LONGSIDE the great Government Buildings, the foundation-stone of which was laid by King Edward, is Leinster House,...

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THE WEEK IN PARLIAMENT

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BY NEW MEMBER. M R. CHURCHILL made an excellent speech on • Thursday, May 7th, in defence of the reimposition of the McKenna Duties, but he was not so happy on Monday when the...

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THE FUTURE OF CANADA

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!.0 FROM A CORRESPONDENT. [Although we are glad to publish this, frank article about the future of Canada, it must not be assumed that we accept all the opinions expressed•...

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THE LESSON OF LORD LEVERHULME

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T HE career of the late Lord Leverhulme has a great deal to teach • us in these days ; paradoxically, it perhaps has more to teach us now than it would have had in the days when...

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CAGES AND SNARERS

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TN " the sweet o' the year," when between the half- L opened leaves we catch glimpses of silver wings and hear the silver notes of mating birds, when a million little singers...

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DISTEMPER RESEARCH

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That renowned sportsman of his day—a century and a half or so ago—Peter Beckford, who hunted what is now the South Dorset country, wrote about distemper and the ravages it...

THE CINEMA

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A GUIDE TO NEW FILMS PEOPLE are constantly saying to me : " We want to go to the pictures to-night. Where can we see a good film ? " I always want to remind them that a really...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] you allow me to

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relate an experience of my own which entirely supports the statements in Miss Gertrude Kingston's article, to which Dr. Courtenay-Dunn takes excep- tion in your issue of April...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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SPLENDOURS AND MISERIES OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES : SICKNESS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the first of the interesting articles contributed by Miss Gertrude Kingston...

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IRISHMEN AND THE UNION JACK

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Like all Irish exiles I am interested in everything about Ireland, and therefore welcome the ingenuous impressions of " Oversea Irishman...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The apologist4 of the

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present system of domestic service usually take up the attitude that the young women and girls of to-day decline to adopt household work for a living. Hence the misery of the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Thanks will be due

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to your " stimulating " contributor, Miss Kingston, if, incidentally, her writing brings some popular reflection to bear on that formula of Labour Exchanges and societies...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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SIR,—Miss Gertrude Kingston says in her article appearing in your issue of April 25th that the antipathy to domestic service dates from the War ; it began long before that time,...

THE PROBLEM OF DOMESTIC SERVICE [To the Editor of the

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SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Does not the use of the word " non-essentials " by Miss Kingston in this sentence, " What woman who earns her own living . . . does not know the terrible...

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IODINE AND HEALTH [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—"

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Crusader's " communication on "Iodine and Health," which appeared in the Spectator of April 4th, has evoked some measure of hope in those who are suffering from goitre. It would...

THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, I should be sorry if Mr. Sol Goldberg were left under the impression that the passage I quoted from the History of the Peace Conference...

MR. GRANVILLE-BARKER AND " DOCTOR KNOCK " [To the Editor

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of the SPECTATOR.] Sia—By blending some friendliness to me with the dozen lines' trouncing which he gives to the very distinguished French author I have translated, your...

. A BALL IN AID OF THE CANCER CAMPAIGN [To

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the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] is impossible to over-emphasize the importance of the' work now being dime by the British Empire Cancer Campaign. Although its organization is...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIRS read with great

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interest " Crusader's " article in the Spectator of April 4th on iodine as a remedy for goitre. Not only have I myself been taken with this article but others to whom I have...

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THE NEED FOR A UNIONIST PHILOSOPHY

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The two articles entitled " Mr. Baldwin : a Character Study," which recently appeared in the pages of the Spectator, are more than a...

TREES AND FLOWERS IN LONDON

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspondent, " M. A.," in the issue of the Spectator of April 18th, argues cogently for the beautifying of London streets with...

OUR PRISON SYSTEM

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.[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The recent article by Mr. Malcolm Macnaughtan and the letter from Dr. Hunt, in addition to their general interest, are particularly...

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THE PLACE OF DOGMA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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SIR,—Christ's question : " What think ye of Christ ? " may be said to lay the foundation of all dogma, just as all ritual may be seen cradled in (say) such an observance as...

A PINCH OF CURRY POWDER [To the Editor of the

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SPECTATOR.] SIR, In your issue of May 2nd you publish a very valuable letter of Sir Robert Peel to Lord Francis Egerton, dated December 11th; 1845. In your comment you ask if...

CUTTING OFF THE QUEEN'S TOE : A MEMORY OF THE

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" COAST " [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The principal queen at a certain place on the " Coast '0 —a dusky lady—had a very bad poisoned toe, and the doctor decided that...

JENNY LIND [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Sm,—I see in this week's Spectator a letter headed " Some Famous Singers," in which an allusion is made to Jenny Lind and her American concert tour. Some half century ago I had...

MR. SAMUEL INSULL, PHILANTHROPIST [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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SIR,—At the dinner given by Mr. T. P. O'Connor, M.P., at the House of Commons, on March 2Ith to Mr. Samuel Insull, the multi-millionaire of Chicago, eulogistic references were...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—On page 712 of

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your issue of May 2nd you make a reference to curry powder and the Duke of Norfolk. On p. 80 of G. W. E. Russell's Life of Gladstone (Sampson Low, 1892) comes the following : "...

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FLAGS AS SKY SIGNS

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Since 1903 when Mr. Sell rebuilt the premises at 166, 167 and 168 Fleet Street, a flag has been flown continuously for twenty-one years....

POETRY

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COME, COME, MY. LOVE COME, come, my Love, the morning waits, What magic now shall greet our sight : What butterflies Before our eyes Shall vanish in the Open light ! Come,...

THE OAK-TREE PEST

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, ---It does not appear to be generally known that young rooks readily devour the oak-leaf moth caterpillars (Tortrix Viridana) which kill...

EXTRACT FROM LETTER

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PLAYING FIELDS AND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.—Mr. A. G. J. Carpenter (Chairman, Dulwich Hamlet Old Boys' Association) writes : May I suggest that in providing playing fields much can...

A CORRECTION

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the review of Trelawny's Adventures of a Younger Son, in your issue of April 25th, it is stated that Recollections of the Last Days of...

THE REFUGEES IN GREECE

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In order to draw attention to the great need still existing among the refugees in Greece, and to the very poor response to the final...

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A BOOK OF THE MOMENT THE PORTRAIT OF ZgLIDE

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(COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York Times.] MR. GEOFFREY Scow, in entering the field of psychological and emotional biography has broken new ground. His...

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Men, Books and Birds (Nash and Grays° . n) is a

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collection of letters from W. H. Hudson to Mr. Morley Roberts.

Mr. George Ainslie Hight has written a two-volume biO- graphy

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of Richard Wagner (Arrowsmith). - He is indignant with the indiscretion of those who published Wagner's Mein Leben and certain of his letters ; and he is determined to admit no...

Sir Oliver Lodge has written a convenient handbook upon Ether

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and Reality (Hodder and Stoughton). He takes the existence of the ether for granted, and nowhere deals with those physicists who think the assumption unnecessary ; but the book...

THE

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FIFTH COMPETITION THE EDITOR OFFERS A PRIZE OF f..5 FOR AN ORIGINAL WARNING IN SIX LINES OF VERSE. WE should prefer to leave it at that ; but perhaps we should then be leaving...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS

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THE latest addition to Messrs. Harrap's series, Our Debt to Greece and Rome, will be' useful, no doubt : but it is astonishingly loose in construction and naive in tone. It is a...

SOLD OUT.

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Many persons have reported during the past few weeks that they have been unable to buy a copy of the SpEcTATciiiat the bookstalls or newsagents owing to the stock bing sold...

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THE WORK OF RUDOLF STEINER

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Dar. RUDOLF STEINER died a month ago. After forty years of hard and various work he had succeeded in creating the framework of a civilization. Under his direction or inspired...

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MEDIAEVAL INNS

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The Inns of the Middle Ages. By W. C. Firebaugh. (Grant Richards. 188.) READERS of Mr. Belloc's Hills and the Sea will recall the essay in which he describes how he set out on...

REALITIES FROM THE PAST

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True Dialogues of the Dead. • Compiled by Francis Bickley, (Guy Chapman. 6s. net.) True Dialogues of the Dead. • Compiled by Francis Bickley, (Guy Chapman. 6s. net.) Tun...

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PALATABLE STEW

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The English Comic Characters. By J. B. Priestley. (John Lane. is. 6d.) MR. PRIESTLEY has several gifts, and not the least among them is his ability to make the most of his...

A RESTLESS CAREER

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IN reading this book I am reminded of an evening party which took place in Oxford some time in the year 1889 or 1890, and now, after the lapse of thirty-five years, is still...

A year's subscription to the SPECTATOR, costing only 30s., makes

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an ideal present for an absent friend. For this sum the paper will be forwarded to any address in the world. Apply Manager, the SPECTATOR, 13 York Street, Covent Garden, London,...

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CURRENT LITERATURE

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FOURE BIRDS OF NOAH'S ARKE. By Thomas Dekker. (Blackwell. 7s. 6d.) Tins little book, which represents Dekker's sole contribution tb devotional literature, was originally...

THIS FOR REMEMBRANCE. By Bernard Lord Coleridge. (Fisher Unwin. 15s.)

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THIS FOR REMEMBRANCE. By Bernard Lord Coleridge. (Fisher Unwin. 15s.) LORD COLERIDGE forestalls criticism by saying that this is " a slight book "—and so it is On the other...

PSYCHOLOGY is rapidly coming into its own. A few years

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ago this Science was frowned upon on all sides as the pallid step-daughter of philosophy (scholastic philosophy at that), and considered unworthy of attention by serious...

THE NEW HOUSING HANDBOOK. By R. Reiss. (London : P.

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S. King and Son. 4s. 6d.) THE NEW HOUSING HANDBOOK. By R. Reiss. (London : P. S. King and Son. 4s. 6d.) NOT many weeks ago we drew attention to a new Handbook of Housing, by...

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FINAL CE7-PUBLIC AND PRIVATE

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THE MONETARY OUTLOOK • BY- ARTHUR W. KIDDY. So much is said and written nowadays, and especially since the readoption - Of the Gold Standard, first as to the prospects of...

FICTION

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SHOCKS AND SERENITY Inner Circle. , By Ethel Colburn Mayne. (Constable. 6s. net.) FOR the most part the ordinary, unambitious " practised hand " can write a much better...

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FINANCIAL NOTES

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RISE IN RUBBER. TRE rise in rubber and in rubber shares has presented a marked contrast to the comparative stagnation and dullness which has characterized other departments of...