representatives of Greece and Yugo- Slavia. It is a defensive treaty based on the present territorial division of the Balkans under the Peace Treaties, and subject to the...

S URELY the coal dispute has nearly run its baleful course. The beginning of the end is making itself felt - after fifteen weary weeks. With good - will on all sides peace will...

growing. They have always had some support and at the Delegates' Conference there seems to have been more serious consideration of schemes, which, of course, are not new, by...

false one,. for the proposals which they will put• forward rest - upon the conditions which they allowed the Industrial Christian Fellowship to put forward in their name, and...

between Italy and Spain. In a leading article we deal with such information as has reached us of its terms. If the information represents the whole truth and leaves out no point...

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they portend we cannot say; • Since the death of Dzerzhinsky, Zinovieff, as we noted some weeks 'ago, has, - been deprived of his offices. Kameneff seems to have been the next...

and prices of German coal on which the French can depend, of iron and steel on which Germany can depend, and a cartel scheme for regulating sales outside France and Germany. We...

between France and Germany we hinted at the activities of that powerful body, the Comite des Forges. It has since come to light that they have come within an ace of reaching a...

over his ally, General Wu Pei-fu, seems to have been false. At any rate, Wu's troops instead of having to look, after themselves in any other direction have made an energetic...

draw thither the attention of the rest of the British Empire for two reasons. It is concerned with the regulation of Labour and Trade Unions ; god we watch each other's Labour...

works in Upper Silesia, the French control of mines in the Saar Basin, the election by Luxembourg to cut her old connexion, which was in effect German tutelage, and join a...

high-handed attempt to close all the foreign Chambers of Commerce it is not easy to say. Appar- ently the Ministry of Commerce claimed to be the only body which should issue...

and await the country's approval are believed by Mr. Bruce tn give to the desire of the country for industrial peace a chance of fulfilment. At present, inconsistencies and...

with the gallant Australian team, who so far as luck and the weather told at all were not favoured on Wednesday, but it was " anybody's " match until the last few hours. We...

has ended with great success. We congratu- late him and his mechanic, a Sergeant of the R.A.F., w h o took the place of the one unhappily killed by a chance shot in Mesopotamia....

of 'which the effect was felt over a wide area, but with greatest force in Warwickshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire and Radnorshire. Some material damage was done by falling...

of Sir William Ridgeway, a man of the widest learning in the Classics, history, archaeology, anthropology, and in many curious by-ways such as the prehistoric origins of the...

leaders to the present state of affairs is seen in the agreement frankly and openly made between Mr. Bruce and the leader of the Labour Opposition in the Federal Parliament, Mr....

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101* ; on Wednesday week 1011; a year ago 10111. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 861-; on Wednesday...

T HOUGH the text of the new "Treaty of Friendship and Arbitration " between Italy and Spain i s not yet published, a good deal of information has readied us through the foreign...

THE COAL DISPUTE o NcE more the air is full of hope. Things are moving and the nation is optimistic enough to believe that, once out of a deadlock, they will move in the right...

A NUMBER of correspondents have written us interesting letters on the article in our issue of July 24th. Prudently as it has turned out we refrained from comment until we could...

BY S. PARKES CADMAN, D.D., LL.D., President of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. p ROPHECY is always risky, but one who surveys present American religious...

T HE day is not far distant—so we are always hearing and reading—when we shall all have all the electric light we want for next to nothing. What happiness for those to whom...

M R. W. MORRIS, who has proved that we can `,` buy British cars and be proud of it," while paying less for them than for those of foreign manufacture, is a small but very active...

DURING the past year charges have been made against Mr. Mackenzie King, the Canadian Liberal leader, that he. is in favour of the separation of the Dominion from the British...

A DAY LW H.M.S. ASCENSION ISLAND. q1HIS was the " fancy " title of a volcanic island in -I- Mid-south Atlantic, administered since Napoleon's imprisonment at St. Helena by the...

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THE HERO AS CONVICT ["ESCAPE." BY JOHN GALSWORTHY. AMBASSADORS THEATRE.] Ir is difficult to give an account of Mr. GaLsworthy's new play without a preface in praise of Mr....

A LETTER FROM CONSTANTINOPLE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—An immense sensation was created by the discovery in June of the plot to assassinate Moustafa Pasha Kemal.,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOiL] , • • Sin,—With regard to the theory of the authorship Of 04 Fourth 'Gospel which appeared in your columns above my name,' may I endeavour to...

OUR EXPORT TRADE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The article in your Financial Supplement of July 24th under the above title comes at a time when the export trade must...

notify the Manager of the SeEclwroa BEFORE MIDDAY ON MONDAY OF EACH WEER. The previous address to :Mich the paper has been sent should be quoted in each case.

of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Whatever may be the value of the theory of Mr. Fleming on-the above subject, it is certain that it is not a new theory. It was discussed very fully by...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta—In the Spectator of July 10th a correspondent in Italy gave a sympathetic account of the new Fascist labour policy. Inevitably,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,-.-In answer to the letter signed "A Plain Man" in your last issue, may I make clearer the distinction which I drew in my review of Can We...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Adverting to your article in your issue of July 31st, does the following extract "which it (the Report) cost the Country 123 million to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In your issue of August 7th you comment, in the column headed " Speetabilia," on the "Dutch Professor who will leave Holland next year...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--I should be glad if you would kindly allow me to draw attention to the propaganda Calcutta University has been carrying out for the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—In answer to Mr. Wren's letter, my informant was not an "Anglo-Indian gossip," but a lady closely connected in those .days with the very...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Ant,—The cost of small holdings to tax and ratepayers is so enormous, and the disturbance to the farming community in the course of their...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Mr. H. C. Minchin's article in the Spectator of August 14th, on "Literary Coincidences," it is assumed that Byron, consciously or...

[To the Editor of the Simerwrou.] Sxa,—My copy of the Spectator goes to a lady in Scotland , who sends it to another in Lugano, who sends it to me, who sends it to the Warden...

am writing to make an appeal—S.O.S. in character— for the" Destitute British subjects "still left in Russia. Born Iii that country, and yet having kept and prized their British...

SIR,—I was much interested in the valuable article you pub- lished in your issue of August 7th on Prison Visiting. Your contributor rightly observes that the demand for these...

CREgY AUGUST 20TH, 1340. THE men who marched to Crecy, they could set a steady pace ; They swung along and kept it with the enemy in chase ; They cared a deal for plunder and...

Sue,—Mr. Solomon considers that I have "at least distinctly exaggerated" the amount of nuisance caused by the discharge of unburut oil from the exhausts of motors in our...

THE ANNEXATION OF CANADA TO THE UNITED STATES. Tim Rev. T. A. Patterson writes from Toronto that "The Financial Editor of the Boston Post discussed the question of the...

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Ma. Fa.trwis MEYNELL modestly admits in the tail piece of Typography, issued by the Pelican Press, that he is the author of the greater part of the text of this pleasant and...

3 Iadams . Blavalsky, advertised in our issue of August 14th, ire not Published by Messrs. Hutchinson as therein stated; but by' Messrs : Bidet 24 Mtiaeitm Street W.C. 1. - .

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a great pioneer. His work on the relation between variations in the pulse-beat and conditions of health or disease in the heart was his most notable single contribution to...

has just reached us. We note that 13,861 bound volumes of Braille were published, last year, compared with 7,028 for the previous year. The report is an inspiring story of the...

his verse has lost none of its verve. There is a fine virility for those to whom African rhythms are not ana- thema, in this " Curse for the Saxophone" :— " None blil an...

on The Planning, Design and Materials of Collages (Country Life. 15s.) This is practically a new book, and a very important one to all small householders. Sir Lawrence counsels...

is a beautifully produced volume and the illustrations are some of the best we have ever seen, that of Mont St. Michel in particular. The book is worth half a guinea for the...

land to Messrs. Methuen's well-known series (7s. 6d.). The scenery, mountains and winter sports are better dealt with than usual, which is high praise, for Switzerland is the...

series of - new full-length novels. We have just read one of the latest : Footsteps in the Night, by Mr. C. Fraser Simpson, Ind were delighted with it. It is a brightly written...

"Everyone who thinks and feels is apt at times to fall ink the state of mind of the Psalmist, and believe that— r " .411 tle earth is full of darkness and cruel habitations."...

IT is many years now since Mr. George Moore, in his Ave algae Vale, introduced a new quality into English prose. Hitherto, with all its organ-like splendour, its breadth and...

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are grateful to Mr. Norman Vernier for this sparkling comedy of manners. The conventional roles of hero and heroine are reversed, and it is Billy Padley who is possessed of the...

editor of the Cornhill is to be congratulated on this collection of reprinted stories : they are the finished products of craftsmen who are sure of their technique, and who have...

It will take even the practised reader some time to find out who was the "Head Hunter" in Mr. Edgar Wallace's new story, The Avenger (John Long. 7s. 6d. net). The book has less...

12s.)—Unusual interest attaches to this work, offspring of the union of Arabic and Romance scholarship. Persuasive and delightful in translation, the chapters proceed from...

A very attractive Armstrong-Siddeley touring car has recently been introduced at a remarkably low price. In these days of high wages and expensive materials it is no small...

IF THE COAL DEADLOCK WERE ENDED BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. WHILE I do not suggest that those who steadily acquire high-class British Investment Stocks without any regard for the...

THE MODERN CAR AND ITS DEFECTS DERING the past few months I have had the opportunity of trying a dozen or more - different makes of motor-cars of varying power and seating...

THE two main factors which seem likely to have chief influence over markets in the immediate future are the industrial developments in connexion with the coal situation and...

s Experience shows, however, that it is not easy to curb Wall Street's speculations when once they have got a fre course, and if the present 4 per cent. in New York should not...

the itingdom in devotion to the -Empire- and to _the development of-our Cryersea_PopirliPns. City, as is, perhaps, natural, demands that even the financing of the Empire shall...

article on "Equalizing Income and Expenditure," which appeared in the Financial Supple- ment of the Spectator on July 24th, brings to our notice the inadequate sum which he...

During the past week, therefore, the City has been par- ticularly glad to note one or two developments showing that our leading bankers here are coming into closer touch with...