defeated on the Second Reading in the House ol Commons on Friday, May 16th. The debate was par- ticularly interesting, because this was the first time that the issue of...

A SETTLEMENT of the mining dispute followed quickly upon the issue of Lord Buckmaster's Report. Lord Buckmaster's opinion that employers and men were so nearly agreed that a...

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the Bill through and through. He showed that its principle was not Socialism but Syndicalism. The Council, dominated by the miners, would have the control of wages, prices and...

criticism. The effort of Mr. Shinwell, the Minister of Mines, was particularly poor. Although all the Labour speakers were in favour of the Bill, the Government did not father...

we dream of that ideal scheme which will insure every worker against all the changes and chances of life. Un- employment will be only a single incident against which protection...

Mr. Shaw in the House of Commons on Tuesday, was carried without a division. It was evident from the debate on this highly controversial measure that most Members desired to...

which Magna Charta and the Bill of Rights become simply the public expression of the Englishman's dislike of discom- fort and inconvenience—not by any means an unattrac- tive...

People of last Sunday of an interview with Mr. Baldwin, which incidentally contained a series of strong, not to say bald, personal strictures upon Lord Beaver- brook, Lord...

surprise were the following : that the Trust Press was breaking up—" the Daily Mail is dead ; it has no soul " ; that Lord Northcliffe, with all his faults, was a great...

Bill next week. The more it is examined the more criticism it provokes. As we recorded last week, the £6 subsidy for twenty years is to be raised to £9 for forty years, and the...

made a most interesting statement to M. Jules Sauerwein (who, our readers will recall, contributed so able a defence of M. Poincare to the Spectator of March -22nd), which was...

we cannot see that there is anything to prevent the local authorities from withdrawing whenever they please. Some of the details of the scheme are extremely confused. It is...

to the subject of retail prices. Evidently he is giving a great deal of attention to it. He has declared that if he were returned to power he would set up a Royal Commission. He...

whose names will be permanently associated with the War. Sir Charles Townshend was the gallant defender of Kut in the siege which ended in inevitable surrender after intense...

Justices Bankes, Warrington and Scrutton delivered considered judgments in the appeals by Dr. C. H. Bond and Dr. J. H. Adam against the judgments in the Harnett case. It will be...

General Powers Act of 1921, there is no perceptible sign of their using them. Indeed, the leaseholders in this block have received a letter from the L.C.C. informing them that...

to the City must take a very active personal interest in the widening of the Strand which is now going on. When the scheme has been completed the street will be some eighty feet...

July 5th. 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 100f ; Thursday week, 100* ; a year ago, 101. 3i per cent. Conversion Loan was on Thursday, 78; Thursday week, 'Til; a year...

SHOULD MR. BALDWIN RESIGN? T o this question there is only one answer—No ! It is the answer that has already been given with unanimity by the Unionist Party. Mr. Baldwin would...

A LL through the week the result of the French elections has been making itself felt. - In France itself and in Europe in general the realization has been growing that M....

FROM A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT. 'M R. LLOYD GEORGE made a somewhat dramatic " reappearance " on Friday of last week in the debate on the Nationalization of Mines Bill. His...

A GARDENER who is presented with a bundle of rose trees, of all sorts and conditions, and told to make each one produce excellent blooms within a limited period, has no more...

TF we hear that a man is a bore we may be pretty sure that we shall hear nothing worse of him. Real bores, born bores, people, we mean, who relate common incidents at undue...

American motorists in this country in the summer, for the charm of our countryside and the excellence of our roads make a strong appeal. A sign of the times is the fact that the...

whole-hearted tribute to the Daily Mail for its enterprise in publishing a specially extended serVice of news from the Dominions during the continuance of the British Empire...

make no bones about the American position. One of the fundamentals of American policy, they state, is that the United States has a right to retain the country for the Caucasian...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. BY EVELYN WRENCH. IIIHE future relations of the United States and Japan have occupied much space in the American Press during the past month. The...

is shown by the poll undertaken recently by the International Book Review of New York. This journal asked its readers to select the ten best books published since 1900. Here is...

Conservation Council that nearly half the Americans employed in industry arc suffering from defective vision. The Ford Motor Car Company at Detroit, whose employees number...

IN Herr Ernst Toiler's Man and the Masses the Stage Society at the beginning of the week gave an impressive performance of a very impressive play. It is interesting, in...

taking place in the Philippines is of especial interest to Englishmen who have had to devote so much time recently to the problem of gradually extending self-governing...

"WHITE CARGO" AT THE PLAYHOUSE. AIVROACUED this play with misgivings. It was described as "a vivid play of the primitive, unvarnished life in the tropics " : that seemed to...

STRAUSS IN PERSPECTIVE. THE problem of Strauss is one that many writers claim to have solved at one time or another, but it is noticeable that the solutions differ, according...

'BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION / WEMBLEY. 11.—SOME OF THE STALLS. I STATED on April 26th that the general aspect of this Exhibition was unlike any previously seen in this country....

INSANITY AND CRIME. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-A perusal of Lord Darling's Bill "to declare and amend the law relating to Criminal Responsibility of accused...

[To the Editor of the SPF:CTATOR.] agree with almost all Mr. Alan Porter had to say last week about the Adelphi, in as far as he concerned himself with Mr. Middleton Murry's...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—In the notes on the Irish Boundary question in last week's issue of the Spectator, the writer argues that the Free State Government's...

of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Article 5 of the Treaty requires the Free State to bear its proper share of the National Debt, and war pensions, as existing in such proportion as may...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am appalled at your doctrine on page 745 of your issue of May 10th. No man has a right to accept the position of Patron or...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The letter from Mr. J. W. Scott under the above heading is a good example of the madness of—inflation, shall I call ? which attacks so...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Mrs. Williams-Ellis, in her article on "The Civic Sense Aroused ? " states that "the men who are content with English manufacturing towns...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am perhaps old-fashioned in considering that William Cowper is a poet whose works are still worth reading. Yet it was with some surprise...

SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Brought up on Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll, I have 'long been a devotee of nonsense. Now, I am told that among the popular songs of the moment are three with...

NATIONALIZATION OF "MINING ROYALTIES.—Mr. Arnold Lupton writes :—In your issue of May 3rd you mention a report that Mr. Shinwell is preparing a Bill for the national- ization of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—For the sake of fair play I would remind those who , find foreign hotels crowded with extravagant Germans that our country also provides...

CONSTANTINE IS SHOWN THE CROSS, AN owl in a tree-top hooted ; and he woke ; Then cast aside the lion-skin coverlet ; And turning softly on his couch of leaves Gazed into the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In an editorial note to a letter from Commander Bellairs, printed in your issue of April 19th, you mention the passage of the ` Renown'...

CLEOPATRA.. The Life and Times of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt : a Study In the Origin of the Roman Empire. By Arthur Weigall. New and Revised Edition. (Thornton Butterworth. 21s....

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. WE see at their brightest this week stars of the second magnitude. Mr. Aldous Huxley, from whom we have long ceased to demand masterpieces, gives us his good...

I AM, as my friends (or - at any irate, those who are not slightly deaf) have heard, on the point of writing a volume of short stories. They are to revive the forgotten British...

WE are often assured that when historians come to examine finally the social customs of our age they will find the richest source of material in that imposing, multitudinous,...

Essays. By W. B. Yeats. (Macmillan. 10s. 6d. net.) MR. YEATs is a standing proof that there is no age so sickly, no dialect so artificial, no movement so provincial but that...

THE WAY OF THE WICKED. "IN this kind world," writes Mr. Powys, at a point in Mark Only where his contention has already been abundantly justified, "when once a man hurts his...

This indispensable compilation is now in its eighty-seventh year. Evidently British publishing has fully recovered from the effects of the War, for the total number of books...

(Longmans. 30s. net.) An inefficient index detracts from the usefulness of this lucid and, in other respects, admirable summary of domestic and foreign history during the past...

and bulk. There are now full lists of Naval, Military and Prison Chaplains, and the hitherto inconvenient section relating to Rural Deaneries has been rearranged with advantage.

net.) The forty-second volume of the ponderous Stock Exchange Official Intelligence contains its customary mass of reliable information and is, of course, one of the most...

7s. 6d. not.) These stories, which deal with supernatural, or rather supernormal events, differ from others of their kind inasmuch as they atttmpt to illustrate the effect left...

thirty-ninth year, and now contains over three thousand pages in which the names of 100,000 firms appear. It is, of course, one of the most valuable commercial reference books...

[BY OUR CITY EDITOR.] THE OUTLOOK. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — Approval of the main lines of the Budget is graclu , ally giving place in the City to an increasing...

and Son. 20s. net.) This trustworthy Parliamentary guide is complete withbiogra- plies of Members and statistics relating to their constituencies, and even includes a glossary...

I indicated in these columns last week the likelihood of considerable activity in the early future in the matter of capital flotations. Confirmation of these expectations has...