24 APRIL 1926

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On Wednesday the the Minisg Committee of : Central Association . net

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the Prime Minister. The Committee showed . . him a statement about wages calculated in purely economic terms. The owners have estimated the wages that could be paid for a...

In connexion with the coal dispute it is interesting to

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learn that a conference of representatives of the Euorpean' coal industry will soon - be held to discuss the possibility, of-ending the cut-throat competition in the coal...

The - Miners' Executive, for their part, collected opinions in the -various

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districts and issued a critical commentary upon theReport. But they gave no precise guidance to the districts where the working miners were puzzling their heads .Over. the...

NEWS OF THE WEEK

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• Ar fER much unnecessary delay, which we trust will not have to be paid for in any highly incon- venient way, the two sides in the coal dispute have at last come to the point....

The Daily Mail, as a result of researches in the

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mining districts, has discovered a great deal of reasonableness among the men, but it cannot be said that the men's leaders have let fall a word about the possibility of...

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It ought to be taxed in no uncertain way. The

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habit of betting is so widespread and so deeply ingrained that it will not be eradicated or anything like it by taxation, but if it can be discouraged and the State can at the...

The Independent Labour Party met with a rebuff last week

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at the meeting of -the Executive of the Labour and Socialist International at Zurich. The I.L.P. dele- gation, headed by Mr. Fenner Brockway, proposed that the Executive should...

Universal pleasure has been caused by the birth of a

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daughter, on Wednesday, to the Duke and Duchess of York. The new Princess is third in the line of succession to the Throne, coming after the Prince of Wales and the Duke of...

The situation in China is no clearer. Last week we

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said that everything would depend upon the agreement come to about the division of the spoils between Chang Tso-lin. and Wu Pei-fu who in alliance are attacking Peking. We do...

With much satisfaction we read the statement that the Cabinet

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have agreed to make a beginning with the taxation of betting in the manner recommended for many months in the Spectator. The present intention is to tax credit betting and...

Meanwhile most of the so-called National Army which had been

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defending Peking has disappeared to the North and various members of the Cabinet who had sought sanctuary have reappeared though the improvised Committee of Public Safety has...

When we write on Thursday morning there is a hitch

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in the . Morocco peace negotiations at Udjar. The Rini delegates are ready to- recognize the temporary and spiritual authority of the --Sultan, - but they refuse to make "...

This reverse to the I.L.P. is significant, for much hid

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been hoped for by the adherents of the new I.L.P. policy which is partly to secure an international " united front," and partly to damage Mr. Ramsay - MacDonald's authority and...

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Last Saturday a large number of women, estimated at 'about

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7,000, marched through London and held a meeting in the Albert Hall as a protest against strikes. This procession was a fairly easy target for criticism even though it'...

This kind of thing can be prevented only by a

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more wholesome public opinion. It is disappointing that newspapers which are in competition with one another have not generally been able to come to some kind of agreement....

The strong conviction in the House of Commons 'that the

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time has come to do something to restrict by legis- lation the publication of obscene - details froni thelaw Courts was demonstrated on Friday, April 16th, when the Bill...

Some of the worst orgies of sensationalism and the exploitation

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of degrading details - have been the outcome of trials which are not covered by this Bill at all. The Bill is thoroughly good, we think, for its particular pur- pose, though it...

All the same, it is a very good sign that_the

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House of Commons is at last intent upon doing by means of the law whatever can be done by the law., The old argument that pUblicity is essential as a deterrent was found to have...

Lord Reading on his return from India has received a

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Marquessate. He left India better. than he found it... That is • his claim to his new honour, and no one will dispute it. His title is " fairly writ " in the progress of the...

* * .,* * All London .feels much the poorer

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for the death of Sir Squire Bancroft. No figure . was more conspicuous— one might say, without offence because with truth, more consciously conspicuous—in the West End of London...

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

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on December 8rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 102 ; on Wednesday week 101# ; a year ago 102/k. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 86} ; on Wednesday...

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THE NEW TROUBLE HOUSE OF EUROPE

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S OME future • Gibbon, tracing the decline and fall of our civilization, may declare that one of . the permanent institutions of Europe was " a trouble house" —a ruler whose...

TOPICS OF THE DAY

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THE RUSSO-GERMAN TREATY T HE alarm caused by the Treaty of Rapallo has been reproduced by the news that Russia and Germany are on the point of concluding a new Treaty ; but...

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LIVING. ON OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY

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M R. A. M. SAMUEL, Parliamentary Secretary, Department of Overseas Trade, has introduced an important and interesting topic. In a recent address to the Newcastle and Gateshead...

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THE WEEK IN PARLIAMENT

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FROM A CORRESPONDENT. T HE House returned from the Easter recess to resume the Committee Stage of the Economy Bill, the Unionists with their anxieties as to its effect upon the...

SHALL THE . SILK WORM DIE ?

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A PORTENT has loomed upon the horizon of Shepherd's Bush : the first Exhibition of British Artificial Silk has opened its doors to the general public for this one day,...

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ALL-STEEL TRAINS

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A MEMBER of the Spectator staff travelled to Bir- mingham the other day in the first all-steel train to run on an English main line. Although the coaches were all third class,...

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BRIGHTER - FOOTBALL

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.A HUNDRED thousand people tried to get in to see a certain football match the other week. Only half the number could be squeezed in and the half that was suc- cessful strewed...

SLAUGHTER-HOUSE REFORM FEEDING ' BY JOHN DODDS.

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(Late Superintendent Carlisle Municipal Abattoir.) THE feeding and watering of animals which are not -I- for immediate slaughter is a subject which has not received the...

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SPECTABILIA

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Lord Byng's term of office as Governor-General of Canada soon comes to an end. Among those mentioned . as possible successors are Lord Cavan, formerly Chief of the Staff, Lord...

There was a sensible letter from an Irishman in the

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Daily Mail recently a propos of the employment of a number Of Irishmen on electrical work in North Wales to which the TreaSury has made a grant of £1,000,000. When the matter...

After a period of post-War depression Neivfoundland seems to be

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entering upon good times. The Government has abolished the relief grant, and during the past four months only £85 have been spent on relief for the able- bodied poor in the...

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A car that passed me in the Strand last week

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had in the triangle which warns people that the car has front wheel brakes the following notice ,you can read this you are too damn close ! " Interesting possibilities are...

The Literary Digest quotes some figures concerning the next American

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- census taken from the Boston News Bureau and the United States Daily of Washington. According to these' authorities the population of the United States on July 1st next will...

A recent issue of the Times contained a remarkable leiter

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on the proposed tax on betting 'signed by seven ex - Governors. The signatories are unanimous that the imposition of a betting,tax,.in the Dominions has not increased the amount...

Leeds will 'celebrate the three-hundredth - aniiiVersary of its . incorporation

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by King Charles I. on JiilY 13th. From a hamlet of 1,400 people it has grown into a thriving town of nearly 500,000, with industries which export, amongst other things,...

• * * * This is the Shakespeare Birthday Week,

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and there' is great dramatic activity on all sides. By a miracle of local patriotism and devotionto a great idea, an astonish- ing achievement has taken place at...

THE THEATRE

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THE HERO AS SAINT M. HENRI GnioN, whom Sir Barry Jackson has just " dis- covered," has been engaged for some years in helping to restore the Poetic Drama in France. In his...

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THE CINEMA

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BRITISH FILMS, THE QUOTA AND -RECIPROCITY THE first stage of the fight for a revival of British film pro- duetion is over. The Committee appointed by the film industry to...

BACHELOR TALK

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THE Haymarket Theatre has a formula of its own—the formula of light comedy and pleasant make-believe. Mr. Levy, the newcomer, has- accepted it, and will apparently be able to...

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ART

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THE experienced frequenter of picture galleries does not start at number one in his catalogue and proceed to examine each succeeding picture until he is too exhausted to obtain...

CORRESPONDENCE

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A LETTER FROM KHARTUM [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The Mohammedan religion regards the making of wells or the provision of supplies of water as works of special merit....

AN ALL-INDIAN FILM

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Sum" a "bone-head" of a Buddha as is portrayed in The Light of Asia at the Philharmonic Hall could never have existed. The Prince who renounced the world to teach the eightfold...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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THE INDUSTRIAL CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP [To the Editor of the SrEerz.roa.] SIR,—In your issue dated April 1pth I notice an article on the Industrial Christian Fellowship. The...

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. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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SIR, — The letters in recent issues of the Spectator on the subject of the , dislike of Americans by Englishmen, and rice versa, seem to me to present yet another unfortunate...

A RACIAL DANGER

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The discussion of the sterilization of defectives in the columns of your journal suggests that England might not be wise to adopt the way...

ON HATING AMERICA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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American might easily reply to " An Englishman in India," whose letter appeared in your issue of March 20th, on his own ground. He might 'point out that Amerietins too dislike "...

_ [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your lady correspondent,

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writing in the last number of the Speciator, seems anxious to impose upon the Rev. G. A. Studdert Kennedya large share of blame for the public apathy towards the work of the...

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ENGLAND AS THE DICTATOR OF WOMEN'S FASHIONS

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SHI,—Those mysterious people who decree Fashion's whim and steer tier capricious course, ' the designers of the dresies' we wear, on 'and off...

AGRICULTURAL PRICES AND WAGES [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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am sorry to have given offence by a letter which ap- peared in your columns more than two months ago, to the correspondent who calls himself " Oliver Rustic," in yOttr issue...

THE COMMITTEE FOR CORRECT REPORTS UPON ITALIAN AFFAIRS

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[To the Tditor of the SPECTATOR.] . SIR,—WC, the undersigned members of the British Colony in Florence, claiming collectively by long experience and intimate relations with...

THE FALL IN CULTIVATED ACREAGE

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —The figures quoted by the writer of " Spectabilia " on the fall in the number of acres under cultivation of cereals in -England and...

'HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] . SIR, —While the people of England are considering t` the reform of the House of Lords " may a friendly foreigner. suggest that, whatever the...

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BUSH TRACK MOTORING IN AUSTRALIA

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[To the Editor of the St's:ern - roll] Stn,—Some months ago you made a most flattering comment on the journal of Mr. Michael Terry describing his journey from Winton to Western...

HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, — Mr. Joad's seventh conclusion is as follows :—" That nevertheless eugenics in the sense of the purposive breeding of desired types is...

THE FUTURE OF INDIA

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,"—Will you allow me as a senior member of the Indian Civil Service to make some comments on Lord Meston's interesting review of recent...

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.11.1k, LATE REV. JAMES SHEPHERD [To the Editor of the

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SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I, . through the courtesy of the Spectator, request that 'any of your readers who may have interesting remini- scences of the late Rev. James Shepherd;...

POETRY

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APRIL RAIN The sweet breast of the brooding day Was hinting through the goWn of Spring, And giant elms threw care away For now had come the Quickening. Ah ! Days of...

WALKING IN CIRCLES

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—I have been interested in your correspondents' views about " walking in circles," but so far no one seems to give any explanation for...

EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS TIPS.

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Ma. A. C. GRIEVE, 13 The Willows, Beech Road, Liverpool, writes : " I am particularly taken with the article on Tips, as it affects the new poor of the minor county class....

LITTER [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] .

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SIR,—Your painful paragraph dealing with litter in your issue of April 10th places, I fear, too high a value on teaching as a means of checking it. For several years past by...

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A BOOK OF THE MOMENT

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THE LURE .OF LONDON [COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York Times.] THE publishers are spreading the Lure of London throughout the English-speaking world,...

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We owe a .debt of gratitude to Messrs. Dent , for

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publishing their edition of Dumas. The Vicomte de Bragalone in four volumes is just out at 4s. Od. each. What wonderful stories these d'Artagnan romances are I

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS

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Miss Nainaiaa CRANE, the baby laureate of New York, who is now thirteen years old, has rightly found a place in Messrs. Cape's revised and enlarged edition of Modern American...

Dr. Hall Sumner has plodded diligently and doggedly, in a

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methodical German way, after the will of the wisp of relativity between The Brain and Mind (Unwire. as. 6d.). He begins a little slowly in his pursuit, but gets his second wind...

We have received the fifth volume of the Memoirs of

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the American Academy in Rome (printed in Italy), magnificently illustrated. It is a fitting memorial to _the scholarship. of the late Mr. Curtis. * * * *

Messrs. Methuen send us an anthology of tabloid wisdom

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ranging from St. Paul to Lao-tsze and from Solomon to Con- fucius. It is well arranged and useful for those that like that Sort of thing. The editor is Mr. Besterman, the price...

The Ballad of Betsy Ann, by Mr. W. A. Briscoe

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(Methuen, 10s. Od.) is the life story of a mare, a sort of versified " Black Beauty " with a touch of " Kissing Cup's Race." The sentiment is charming, the illustrations...

We have received a fragmentary and—alas !--painfully self-laudatory Autobiography of

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John Payne, with preface and annotations by Mr. Thomas Wright (Thomas Wright, Olney, near Bedford. 15s.). The pen drawings by Mr. Jones are excellent, the photographs of the...

A NEW COMPETITION

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The Editor offers a prize of £5 for a " Specimen Day" in not more than 1,000 words. _ _ If only four hundred words are used we shall be so much the happier. But we have set the...

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Before going on their holidays readers are advised to place an order for the SPECTATOR. The journal will be forwarded to any address at the following rates :- One Month • . 2s....

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SPORTING SAGAS --

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stable. 21s.) . Tire late Mr. John Woodcock Graves, author of -the words. of the famous song, is reported to have said-on •one occasion to its Cumberland hero, whose name is...

SWINBURNE has fallen upon evil days. When his poems

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were banned from all polite libraries and ardent youths looked upon him as the liberator of the human race, the greatest of all free spirits, redeeming poetry from the dreary...

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THE PULPIT AND THE WORLD

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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. By R. H. Tawny. (John Murray. 10s. fx1.) " PRUDENCE and Piety were always very good friends. You may gain enough of both worlds if you...

JOSEPH CONRAD

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Last Essays. Joseph Conrad. (Dent. 7s. 6d.) Tuts collection of essays and letters to the Press is the last gleaning from the field of Conrad's exotic genius. We have a purpose...

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VERSE, AMERICAN - AND ENGLISH,

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THE American lecture habit has brought together the. oet and his listeners in a way of which Walt Whitman, neglected in is own day, only dreamed. Mr. Vachel Lindsay has lectured...

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GOSSIP OF THE " GREAT WORLD "

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Reminiscences. By Roma Lister. (Hutchinson. 21s.) Miss ROMA ',MEWS Reminiscences are described as social and political, but polities play but a small part. She being what used...

This rather prim and demure little guide is admirably cheap

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and small, fitting any purse and any pocket : it is adequate on the history of the city and of its monuments and does not attempt too much : notably, it is cautious to the...

A COMPARISON OF POETRY AND MUSIC. By Sir Henry Hadow.

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(Cambridge University Press. 2s. Oci.) Tins pamphlet was the Henry Sedgwick Lecture for 1923 at Cambridge. It is a sound incursion into constructive aes- +h..+ies, and develops...

GERMANY'S INDUSTRIAL REVIVAL. By Sir P. Dawson,. M.P. (Williams and

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Norgate. 10s. Bd. net.) Sin PHILIP DAwsoN has collected in Germany a great deal of useful information which he here hands on to us. Ire describes the economic conditions since...

CURRENT LITERATURE

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IMPERIAL ROME. By Martin Nilsson. Translated by C. al Richards, D.D. (Bell. 21s. ) ONLY recently we had occasion to pay a tribute to Professor Nilsson's thorough-going...

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THE MENACE OF NATIONALISM IN EDUCATION.' By Jonathan French Scott,

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Ph.D. (Allen and Unwin. 6s. 6d. = net.) Ii so far as the child is father of the man, the problem of. world peace may be ultimately solved in the schoolroom. But human nature...

FICTION HEROINES OF TO-DAY AND -*YESTERDAY- -

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Clad in Purple Mist. By Catherine Dodd. (Jarrold. 78.. 6d.) EvEwsi tenth person one . meets under the age of forty, and even so _ me considerably over, seems to harbour nsecret...

THE DARK HOURS. By Don Marquis. (Cape. 5s. net.) ME.

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DON MARQ via, one of the best-known " columnists " of the American Press, has set out to do a brave thing, but has not liad enough courage to carry it through. In The Dark...

OTHER NOVELS

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And a New Earth. By : C. E. Jacomb. (Routledge. 7s. 6d. net.)—This - romance, worked out with great care and in much detail, describes a New State in which a higher social level...

The Case of Dr. Morel. By Karen Bramson. (A. M.

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Philpot. 5s.)—This is a rather rinwhOlesothe little story Of a fashionable physician who makes full_ use of his opportunities for putting his patients out of their pain when he...

Yellow Corn. By Upton Gray. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.

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net.)—A first novel about couritrY-folk which is fresh, unpretentious and charming. The clever villain is ingeniously unmasked, the simple hero is interesting while he makes...

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BOOKS RECOMMENDED

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MISCELLANEOLTS :-The Drama in Adult Education.. (His Majesty's Stationery Office. - 1.s.) Foundations of the Universe. By M. Luckiesh. (Chapman and Hall. 15s.)=C hemistry in...

FINANCE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE

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THE BUDGET BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. THE days seem to have passed when Budget secrets were scrupulously preserved. Speculations as to its character have, of course, always been...

THE RECREATIONS OF LONDON

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LECTURES. Sunday, April 25th, 3.30 p.m. Mx POLICY FOR THE LAND. By Mr. Lloyd George. Under thil , liniapices Of the " Five Quarters." At the Guildhouse, Eceleston Square, S.W....

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ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE.

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The completion , of the Quinquennial Valuation period in: . the Life Department of the Royal Exchange As - alliance Cdiii- pany has resulted in the announcement of a combined...

BANKING IN JAPAN.

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At the time"-of the announcement iouncement Of the'dividend by the - Vokohamapecie Bank, it was evident that profits had expanded, and this is' now shOWn to be the case by the...

FINANCIAL . NOTES

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QUIETLY CHEERFUL MARKETS. Tits: fortnightly settlement has revealed, as was expected, at sound position, and the response of prices, especially of- high-class Investment....

STORE PROSPERITY.

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Only last week I referred to the prosperity which is being_ experienced just now by most of. London's big Stores, and the Annual Report of the Army , and Navy Co - operative...

DUNLOP RECOVERY.

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After passing through a period of some severe vicissitudes, it looks as though the Dunlop Company, thanks to the drastic reorganization scheme and present sound management, is...

SATISFACTORY INSURANCE DIVIDENDS.

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The sound and conservative management of the Liverpool : and London & Globe Insurance Company is now bearing fruit in increased profits, the Directors having just been able to...

VICKERS RECOVERY.

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The hopefulness expressed some few months_ ago by the ' Directors of Vickers Limited on the occasion of -the formation of the Capital Reconstruction plan—a hopefulness, it will...