1 JUNE 1929

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Perhaps those - who presaed this ridiculous accusation did not know

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that all the coireaPondence of a Prime Minister is written on paper bearing the seal of his office. Every Cabinet Minister his a similar departmental seal. By writing on paper...

The "Baldwin Letter" Together with the usual election literature sent

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out by the Unionist agents there was sent a photographic facsimile of a letter from Mr. Baldwin. Nailing could have been more restrained and more innocent than Mr. Baldwin's...

Mr. Baldwin's Nerve 'Mr. Baldwin continued the premeditated quietness of

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his appeal to the end. On the day before the Election, for eicample, the Morning Post published a message from hirici which suinineil'up iill'his teaching. "Buf it is...

A Liberal Manifesto The only Party which sprang an eleventh

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hour surprise deliberately was 'the Liberal Party, and this surprise did not amount to very much, though it was described as a "bombshell." It was a business men's manifesto on...

News of the Week The General Election B Y the time

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this number of the Spectator is in the hands of most of our readers all the doubts of the General Election will be at rest...2in these circumstances . our advice would be...

Enrroats,n eitn PUBLISHING OFFICES: 99 Gower Street, London, W.C.1.—A`Subactiption'to'the SPECTATOR

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costa Thirty Shillings per annum, incittding_postage, to any part f the - world. The SPECTATOR is registered-as a Newspaper. The'Poatage on this issue i8: Inland ld., Foreign'...

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Afghanistan On Thursday, May 23rd, King Amanullah, accom- panied by

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Queen Surayya,, and his brother Inayatullah Khan and his wife, unexpectedly crossed the Afghan frontier into India. King Amanullah acknowledged that he had, for the time being,...

The Civil War in China We have written elsewhere on

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the new aspect . of the civil war in . China. The , Peking correspondent of the Times in Wednesday's paper says that Feng Yu-hsiang is believed to have with him many official...

The Royal Commission on Indian Labour " On - Friday, May

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24th, the India Office published the names • of those who are -to- accompany the ex-Speaker, Mr. J. H. Whitley, in the Royal Commission appointed to study labour conditions in...

that there will be some kind of agreement on Repara-

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tions after all. In February when the meetings of the experts began in Paris few of us expected that the Con- ference would still be dragging on after the British elections. It...

Signor Mussolini's Speech in the Senate The Lateran Treaty passed

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through the Italian Senate last Saturday in - the approved - " totalitarian" manner, the actual number of dissentient votes being under double figures. Signor Mussolini was at...

Although the selfish national claims are still maintained, the desperate

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efforts of the British representatives to avoid a breakdown are having their effect. The Times of Thursday announced, that the French Government has agreed to evacuation of the...

Again, it was asserted that Dr. Schacht had refrained from

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sending a written reply to the observations of the creditor Powers on the German " reserves " from a mis- chievous desire to prolong the agony. The truth is that Dr. Schacht...

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The Belgian General Election The Belgian General Election proved that

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the Belgian people, rather than try Socialism, are cOntent to let M. Jaspar'S Government continue its methods of circum- spect progress. The Catholic Party—which is part -or the...

If the guardianship of the City of London was better

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than that of outer London it was still far from perfect. Thieving on the Thames caused the river to be carefully guarded earlier than the streets. Peel came to the con- clusion...

The Police Centenary Last Saturday the Metropolitan Police celebrated their

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centenary.amid .. easual, but none the less unmistak- able, expressions of good will. Doubts about the integrity of the police are expressed from time to time, but, as the...

Mr. Baldwin on the Empire In Hyde Park, on Friday,

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May 24th, Empire Day, .Mr. Baldwin spoke at a celebration organized by the . Daily Express. His words were . chosen with the taste of one who has a genuine instinct for...

Tourist Travel Our American correspondent has already drawn atten- tion

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to the reduction of the charge for passport visas between the United States and France. The new rate is two dollars (fifty francs), as compared with ten dollars. Following the...

The Industrial Visit to Russia Mr. Ernest Remnant, who organized

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the industrial delegation to Russia, has stated that the mission proved that Russia offers the "largest single market available to British goods." The delegates insisted...

A British Economic Mission Ever since the Prince of Wales'

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tour in South America in 1925 there . has been talk of doing more to encourage British trade there. The idea has at last taken tangible form in the appointment of an Economic...

Bank Rate, 51 per cent., changed from 41 per cent.,

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on February 7th, 1929. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 100Ix.d. ; on Wednesday week 100ax.d.; a year ago, 101x.d. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 871; on...

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Safeguarding and Free Trade

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D URING the last few days of the election campaign the Protection and Free Trade controversy was brought, by accident or arrangement, into more promi- nence. Throughout the...

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The Duel in China

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I T is certain that there must be yet another struggle before there can be unity in China. Chiang Kai-shek and Feng Yu-hsiang (the Christian General) are committed beyond recall...

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In Defence of the Faith

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The Sermon on the Mount in 1929 • [Canon E. S. Woods, the writer of this article, is well known for his lucid exposition of "Every-day Religion." lie is now Vicar of Croydon.]...

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The Rule of Law

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A T first sight there may seem to be but little con- nexion between the recent Report of the Police Commission and one of the most fundamental problems of international law. We...

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The Real Spoilers of Cornwall

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_ (FROM A RECENT RESIDENT.) TN all counties perhaps, but especially in Cornwall, "the foreigner" from, across the border is by common consent made the scapegoat for acts of...

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Animal Protection

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[The Duchess of Hamilton. President of the Animal Defence Society, contributes a record of the International Animal Protection Cortress at Vienna. The many letters we...

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Memories of a Cairngorm Country- side—IL The Landscape

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I _HAVE called these odd recollections Memories of a _ • Cairngorm countryside, and so far have confined myself to writing . of a few antique inhabitants of one of Ross-shire's...

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The Election Seen From Paris

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[As we were going to press we received this article from an English resident in Paris.--En. Spectator.] T HE General Election is arousing great interest in France. All the chief...

DIRECT subscribers who are changing their addresses are asked to

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notify the SPECTATOR Office BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDAY OF EACE WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

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• The Cinema

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The Talkies HOWEVER much one may dislike talkies, it is now impossible to disregard them. All the great American, and most of the English and German film producers have "gone...

The Theatre

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["KEEPERS OF YOUTH." By ARNOLD RIDLEY. AT THE DUKE OF YORK'S TKEATRE. "THE MATRIARCH." By G. B. Sl'ERN. AT THE ROYALTY. "THE INFINITE SHOEBLACK." AT THE GLOBE.] A rquiEusiow of...

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Art

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[MARIE LAURENCIN. THE PAUL GUILLAUME GALLERY.] THE small exhibition of paintings by Mme. Marie Laurencin at the Paul Guillaume Galleries in Grosvenor Street is an intimate...

Correspondence

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A LETTER FROM BARCELONA. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The great day has come and gone and the International Exhibition of 1929 is open to the public. Never before...

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SIR ESINE HOWARD'S OFFER.

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The publication of a private letter, in which one of Sir Esme Howard's secretaries courteously intimated that, if the U.S. Government requested it, the British Embassy would...

A.MERICAN VISIT TO RUSSIA.

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Fifty American business men are expected to compose the delegation which the American-Russian Chamber of Com- merce has organized "to visit Russia this summer. Much in the same...

American Notes of the Week

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(By Cable) [The American Notes which have been appearing in the SPECTATOR for the last four weeks are written by Mr. Ivy Lee, the well-known American publicist, who has agreed...

REJUVENESCENCE OF HQBOREN.

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. . As Southwark is to London SD is Hoboken, across the -Hudson -River, to New York. Formerly Hoboken, as the main port, for German shipping lines, had a very active and...

PUBLICATION OF SECRET VOTE.

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As a consequence of the publication by one news agency of what purported to be the roll-call of a vote held in secret session, the Senate has been greatly exercised over a...

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INVASION OF PRIVACY. The occasion of the marriage of Colonel Lindbergh and Ambassador Morrow's daughter has served to illustrate both the pertinacity of the American Press and...

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The League of Nations

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Monsieur Albert Thomas ll'HEN.X. Albert Thomas went to Japan recently one of the newspapers said he arrived like a cyclone. He himself has what might be called a -philosophy of...

The International Labour Office

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The 'annual General Conference of the International Labour Organization opened on Thursday, May 30th. It was preceded in accordance with custom by a session of the Governing...

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AN ELIZABETHAN WITNESS.

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The importance of the apple—and perry pear—in English social life is persuasively emphasized by the very first of the scientific workers in this field in England—John Taverner,...

* * * * A REFORMED BOUGH.

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In a garden of the West I saw the other day a most persuasive example of the value of ringing the bark of fruit trees. A very well-pruned bush tree had not borne fruit for some...

STARLING VERSUS SWIFT.

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Even the hawk-like swifts have not been exempt. A strange tale on this theme reaches me from a country rectory. A pair of swifts, as usual, are building in a cottage roof....

EccEmittic WEATHER.

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Wireless and the newspapers make us all weather-wise ; but oddities of the weather are surprisingly omitted. We experienced last week one of the strangest thunderstorms in...

Country Life

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VILLAGE 'PRENTICES. Could it happen in any but an English 'village that no one is willing to accept proffered money ? A very great many parishes have the use of charities left...

* * * * My personal acquaintance with some of

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these old local bequests and the general ignorance about them exactly coincides with the experience of some of the Rural Community Councils now publishing reports. For example,...

ENGLISH ORCHARDS.

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In at least six English counties we have evidence that almost the oldest of rural industries in England is steadily advancing (and but for "the tied house" it would advance much...

A GREEDY BIRD.

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I hate to record the sins of any bird, for all have virtues, even in regard to man ; but if, as Meredith said in another connexion, the flame of their soul burns upwards, we...

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Letters to the Editor

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• AN AMERICAN'S VIEW OF THE • UNEMPLOYMENT SITUATION [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--R is no doubt true that unemployment will eventually be eliminated by the absorption...

DISARMAMENT [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—In your issue

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of May 25th we read, "No one who prides himself on common sense will dispute the contention that the Direct or Technical niethod 'of disarmament—in isolation:-:-must lead, as it...

- THE CHURCH' AND EMPIRE SETTLEMENT:

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—On April 23rd last, St. George's Day, was inaugurated an attempt to link up, through the offices of the Church of England, the cause of...

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THE LITTER OF LONDON [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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SIR,--Passing your new offices in Gower Street, looking so fresh in their livery of spring, I noticed beside them a drab and dirty street-cleaning van. Right under my nose, and...

STAG HUNTING [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With regard

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to the suggestion that Exmoor could be turned into a National Park, may I point out that the area in which the deer are at present hunted and preserved includes far more than...

THE PRESENCE OF FLOWERS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Sni,—May I, from present experience, emphasize the refreshing and enlivening influence of flowers in the daily life of cities so eloquently set forth in your article of May 1...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Sin,—Knowing your impartiality on this subject, may. I be allowed to give a short reply to Major F. G. B. Lethbridge's letter in your issue of the 25th. Major Lethbridge asserts...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Mr. Barwell says that

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under the Bishop of Liverpool's Bill citizens can only exercise their option one way, i.e., in decreasing the number of licences. This is not correct. He further says that the...

[To the Editor of the SrEcrAToa.] Sui,—May I trespass once

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more' upon your correspondence pages, to reply to the note you published under my 'late letter ? In this you pointed out how the number of alcoholics has declined in Sweden,...

TEMPERANCE REFORM [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut,—Does "

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Prudens Futuri " really meet your point ? He agrees with your suggestion that "the Trade will always try to make as much money as possible," but does not regard this as an...

ABERDARE QUILTING CLASS

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[To the Editor of the SPEcrATon.] Sra,—About four months ago you kindly published a letter from me concerning the formation of a Quilting Class at Aber_ dare, and as a result...

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FROM AN AUSTRALIAN READER [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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- Sne,---Allow me to express as an old subscriber my sincere appreciation of the very fine Centenary issue of the Spectator. The Period of the last hundred years : covers great...

A DEFENCE OF HINDUISM [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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SIR,—Mr. Pennington, in your issue of May 11th, referring to a certain evil existing in the south of India, remarks, "a religion" (meaning Hinduism)-." which not only sanctions,...

• M.P.'S WAGES CENTURIES AGO [TO the Editor of the

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'SliEcrAron.] ' Sm,—The practice of making payments tO Members of the Hinise - COnfinons goes baCk to' the year 1205. In the fourteenth century it was Provided that four...

- -- [To the Editor - of the SPECTATOR.}'--. • '

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• • . • . • -. . - • • •-• $ -- SIR,—Your contributor's article on the subject of mothercraft . . _ in the Spectator recently does not quite do justice to the work performed...

"CUT THE CACKLE AND GET TO THE 'OSSES " [To

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the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] S1R,--I think I can enlighten your correspondent " H. M. W.," who asks for the origin of the slogan, " Cut the cackle and get to the 'osses." The...

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HOSPITAL SUNDAY--JUNE 2. 2 [TO the Editor of the Sk - cricron.1

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gra,—May I beg the generoaa Support of your readers for the fifty-seventh annual collection for our hospitals in London next Sunday ? The congregations of over 2,000 places of...

POINTS FROM LETTERS PERFORMANCES IN HYDE PARK.

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The League of Arts has received permission from H.M. Office of Worksfor a - series of entertainments, folk songsand dancing and "a woodland opera," to be . given in the natural...

Poetry

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But What is That ? THE weeds are rank, The grass uncut, The vines swing wild, The door is shut ; The clock has stopped, Stark is the bed, The fire's out, My love is dead—...

A Hundred Years Ago

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THE SPECTATOR, MAY 30TH, 1829. PETTY SESSIONS. At the Chelmsford Petty Sessions on Friday, four men were put upon their trial on the singular charge of having broken out of...

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Mr. C. S. Forester's The ,Voyage of the "Annie Marble"

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(Lane, 8s. 6d.) points the way to a delightful and cheap holiday. This is the way the author and his wife got it : by motor- dinghy from Rouen up the Seine to St. Mamme,s ; by...

It is not often that we have the pleasure of

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reading such sober and enlightening criticism as Mr. J. A. Chapman gives us in his Papers on Shelley, Wordsworth and Others (Oxford University Press, 6s.). Their distinguishing...

Mr. Isaac Goldberg describes his Gilbert and Sullivan (Murray, 215.)

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as "The Compleat' Savoyard." In aim, and to a good degree in accomplishment, this book of generous proportions is even more than the sub-title claims for it. Much has been...

Some Books of the Week

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DURING the past month the books most in demand at the Times Book Club have been :— Ficriox.—All Quiet on the Western Front, by E. M. Re- marque ; Doctor Arts, by Robert Hichens...

* * * * It seems that small girls have

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always been noted for worldliness, vainglory, chattering, pertness, and love of personal adornment ; and, in consequence, education has been mainly directed towards removing...

In the Story of San Michele (Murray, 16s.) Dr. Axel

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Munthe sets out to describe how he fulfilled a vow, made as a student, to possess the ruined chapel of San Michele and the garden where once had stood the imperial villa of the...

The Competition

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THE Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the paragraph of not more than a hundred and fifty words, on any subject in which is hidden the largest number of names of...

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Types of Holiness

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L'Abbi Tempate : Armand de Ranee. By Henri Bremond. The Secret of the Cur# d'Ars. By Henri Ghéon. Trans. by F. A. gh e ed. (Sheed and Ward. 7s. - 6d.) 11- is, perhaps, in...

The Empire and its History

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The Splendid Adventure. By the Right Hon. W. M. Hughes. (Ernest Bean. 21s.) The Cambridge History of the British Empire. Vol. I. The Old Empire to 1783.. Edited by J. Holland...

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Day by Day with Gibbon Gibbon's Journal. Edited by D.

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M. Low. (Chatto and Windt's, 17s. 6d.) . . UPON his twenty-fifth birthday Gibbon, having "rambled about" all the morning, took occasion to .look a little into himself and...

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The Bear and the Lion

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British Documents on the Origins of the War. Vol. IV. (Stationery Office. 12s. 6d.). THE 550th of the 550 despatches included in this fourth volume of the Foreign Office...

Amazing Insects

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Insect Singers. By J. G. Myers. (Routledge. 210.) Ants, Bees, and Wasps (1882). By Sir John Lubbock (Lord Avebury). New edition with notes by J. G. Myers. (Kegan, Paul. 10s....

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The Navy and the Merchant

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• Service Reminiscences. By Admiral' Sir Reginald Tupper, C.B.E., etc. • (Jarroldi. 10s.) WHEN the War came, the exceptionally varied experiences of 'Admiral Sir Reginald...

An Angler's Paradise

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MR. BARRER is one of those -Englishmen who fall in love with Ireland ; if they are not hunting men they are generally anglers, as he is, and no way of association is more...

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Fiction An International Crowd

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The Embezzlers. By Valentine Kataev. Translated by L. Zarinco (Knopf. 7s. 6d.) The Einbezzkrs is the Book Society's choice for the month ; and Mr. Stephen Graham, in a brief...

A Bengali Lady A. Woman of India. By Lt. S.

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Dutt, I.C.S. (Hogarth Press 4s. 6d.). Tins book is worthy of its subject and the author will ask for no higher praise than this. Simple, restrained, concise, and inspired by...

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CLASH. By Ellen Wilkinson, M.P. (Harrap. 75. 6d.) —There are

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two distinct conflicts in this very clever and successful first novel. There is, to begin with, political warfare. Joan Craig, the attractive daughter of a Northern factory...

Answers to General Knowledge Questions

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1. Dog that pursues foxes, badgers, &c., run to earth (fr. French terre).-2. Originally, American bird. First sold by so-called " Turkey " merchants.---3. Corruption of French :...

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Why do we like reading crime stories, and especially murder

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stories ? . Mr. George A. Birmingham discusses- this question in the preface to Murder Most Foul (Chatto and Windt's, 7s. 6d.). Dismissing somewhat vigorously the hypocritical...

More Books of the Week

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(Continued from page 864.) That fine sailor and true-hearted gentleman; the late -marquis of Milford Haven, devoted his leisure to the collection , and study of naval medals....

Under the 'editorship of Professor Edgar • Prestage - nine professors,

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the greater number of the . University of London; 'have written of Chivalry, its historical significance and civilizing influence (Iiegait Paul, 15s.).7 Sir Israel Gollanez...

It is Miss Clarke's misfortune that while her book— Elizabeth

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Barrett Browning (Hutchinson, 12s. 6d.)—was in preparation, Mr. Osbert Burdett should have produced his admirable study, The Browoings, already reviewed in our columns. This...

The Island of Roses

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[Until further ?ware we propose in this column to publish • articles and notes which may help our readers in their plans for travel at home and abroad. They will be written by...

We have almost forgotten the days at the beginning of

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this century when the working classes first became a new terri- tory of interest, their habits were investigated, and a great impetus was given to social workers. It seemed,...

There. is something about That Capri ,4ir (Heinemann, .8s. 6d.)

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that goes to the making of witty books. Signor Edwin Cerio has, not done So well as .eithei Mr. Norman Douglas or Mr. Compton.Mackenzie,nnd if he were to Abandon literature for...

For those who refuse to be put off by statistical

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tables and graphs the latest of the Studies and Reports of the For those who refuse to be put off by statistical tables and graphs the latest of the Studies and Reports of the...

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General Knowledge Questions

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Ouit weekly - prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mr. J. A. Grane, Talpioth, Palestine, for the following :— What is the...

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Financial Notes

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UNSETTLED MARKETS. IN a previous column reference is made to the possible effect upon the stock markets of the result of the General Election. Needless to say, these remarks...

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Although shareholders in Liptons had been looking to, some fairly

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drastic schemes of capital reconstruction, tie one which has recently been put forward is even more severe than had been expected. Preference shareholders are required to give...

• * * * DISCOUNTING THE FUTURE.

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The bonus involved in the issue of new Ordinary shares of the Columbia Graphophone Company to shareholders is a sub' stantial one, in the sense that the new shares are offered...

A PROSPEROUS TRUST.

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The Investment Trust Corporation Limited, of which Mr. Robert Fleming is Chairman, has again done well during the past year. There have been several fresh issues of capital by...

Rubber companies are showing up well under the trying conditions

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of last year when the sudden removal of restriction of exports occasioned so sharp a fall in the price of the coin. modity. At the recent - meeting of the Malakoff Rubber...

It is always satisfactory that after some years of working

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a company is able to compare actual results with prospectus forecasts. This the Chairman of the Amalgamated Press was able to do at the recent annual meeting, when he pointed...

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A NOTEWORTHY Ac-r.

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it is always pleasing to be able to record notable actions of an honourable character by a Government, and not least when those actions are performed by our own or by one of our...