1 NOVEMBER 1919

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE Chancellor of the Exchequer in the House of Commons on Wednesday, in opening the great debate on the finances of the nation, made just such a speech as was required to...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE NEW CABINET. T HE Prime Minister has returned more or less to old Constitutional methods by abandoning his War Cabinet. No doubt the War Cabinet, as its name implies, was at...

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ANTI-BRITISH FEELING IN AMERICA.

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M OST Englishmen would say that they deserved and had earned the good opinion of the United States. The conviction that it is necessary for the future peace of the world that...

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THE ENGLISH COAL-MINING INDUSTRY AND AMERICAN COMPETITION.

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[COMMUNICATED.] T HE decision of the Government with regard to the nationalization of the coal-mining industry would no doubt be supported by a majority of the electorate, if a...

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111k, CAVENDISH ASSOCIATION.

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I N the year before the war as common interest in social service led some educated men of• the more fortunate classes to found the Cavendish Association. Their objects were to...

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MME. MARIA MONTESSORI.

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E NGLISH newspapers have for the last month or two been treating their readers to a remarkable series of paragraphs a propos of Dr. Montessori's visit to England. The object of...

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THE PASSING OF THE TABLECLOTH.

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I S it necessary to what in our lighter moods we call civilization that meals should be attractive, that mealtimes should be really intervals of recreation and not only pauses...

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SPIN BALDAK.

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R ECENTLY a letter, dated July 8th last, from Spin Baldak, in Afghanistan, reached me, which ran thus :— " Many thanks for your letter received this morning whilst was looking...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] NATIONALIZATION AND THE...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9

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SIR, —There are two aspects of this question which, I think, have not been put forward by your correspondents. The first is that not only has temperance legislation lagged...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " Sezorszoa.") Sus,—My old friend

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Mr. Charles L. Bothers pays you a high compliment. He tells us that the country does not accept Prohibition because "writers like yourself keep on telling it that it will not."...

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THE DUKE OF BEDFORD AND LORD NORTHCLIFFE AND THEIR COTTAGES.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR ,—I enclose a copy of a correspondence between Lord Northcliffe and myself, which I hope you will be able to publish.— I am, Sir, &c.,...

HOME ARTS AND INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION. .

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Stit,Many years ago in a Shropshire village Mrs. Jebb, of Ellesmere, taught a crippled boy to carve in wood, to his great pleasure and...

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WERE THE RAILWAY HORSES LEFT TO STARVE ? (To THE

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EDITOR OF THE " PECTATOR."1 SIR,—My attention has been called to a letter in your issue of October 18th from a Mr. Francis A. Cox, who signs himself Secretary of the National...

and rug-making, toy-making, lace-making, embroidery, smocking, knitting, pottery, plain and ornamental leather-work, bookbinding, stencilling, &c., &c.

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The class-holders who organize the work locally are in all cases voluntary workers. Those of them who possess sufficient knowledge and leisure often give the instruction...

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") h volunteer worker at

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one of the big London goods yards during the recent strike, I cannot let Mr. Cox's letter go unchallenged. He quotes Mr. J. IL Thomas, M.P.: " In a few isolated instances, owing...

ADOPTION, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")

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SIR,—May I ask you, of your courtesy, to correct two false impressions which have resulted from the publication of Miss Rosamond Skrine's letter in your issue of October 18th ?...

CHURCH AUTONOMY.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sete—Among " the appalling faults of the Church of England," for .which a good Churchman " will expect and even welcome divine judgment,"...

A GIFT TO THE NATIONAL TRUST.

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(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The Executive Committee of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty has the pleasure to announce that,...

THE PLUMAGE BILL.

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fTo THE ED/TOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I read with horror Mr. Massingharree article in last week's issue. My mother and myself have steadfastly set our faces against the...

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AUTHOR FOUND.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sm,—May I add a few lines to those of M. de V. Payen-Payne (October 4th, p. 438)? The real version is the following. Speaking of the number...

POETRY

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LAST YEAR. WAS it last Summer, just last year, Or many and many a year ago, Our hearts went shadowed by that Fear f Now Time and Space are darkened so It might be fifty...

S put ator We suggest that there can be no

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better Prevent in Peace or War than an Annual Subscription to the Spectator. He or she who gives the Spectator as a present will give , a weekly pleasure, as well as a weekly...

BOOKS.

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FROM LIBERTY TO BREST-LITOVSK,* MRS. HAROLD WILLIAMS, the wife of the well-known correspond. ent of the Daily Chronicle in Russia, has written a valuable book on the first year...

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THE ANONYMOUS POET OF POLAND.* Miss GARDNER has followed up

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her monograph on Mickiewicz with an admirable companion study of Zygmunt Krasinski, the " Unknown " or " Anonymous " Poet of Poland, second only to Mickiewicz in genius, and, in...

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MY FIVE-ACRE HOLDING.* Boons innumerable have been written for the guidance of allotment-holders and small-holders, books many of them full

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of sound information and advice. What makes Mr. Metcalfe Few's book pre-eminent even in such a number is that it records in plain practical language the actual experience of a...

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THE DOVER PATROL.*

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Sin REGINALD BACON'S detailed narrative of the Dover Patrol is a well-written and highly interesting book, which will rank with Lord Jellicoe's history of the Grand Fleet among...

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Here you have it in a nutshell. No more need, or can, be said.

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THE " COUNTRY MEE " BOOK OF COTTAGES.t ANY book from the pen of so able an architectural critic as Mr. Laurence Weaver must always be assured of a, welcome. When the time is the...

FICTION.

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SUSAN LENOX.* Tars long and painstaking novel has attracted considerable attention both in America and here. Indeed, Mr. Robert Chambers contributes an Introduction in which he...

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SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent revisit.] The Quarterly Review for October contains a cheerful article by Mr. Edgar Crammond on " The Economic...