25 JUNE 1921

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What the Government should do, and would do if they

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had any imagination, any sense of the dramatic, any sense of what makes nations understand each other, would be to show a little warm-heartedness. They would of their own accord...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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/THE Press has not gone in the least beyond the truth when it speaks of the Royal visit to Belfast as the King's triumph. It is that without flattery or exaggeration. There was...

We have dealt elsewhere with the question of the renewal

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of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, and put what we believe to be the unanswerable case against renewal. Here we must record the fact that though during the past week the subject...

The attempt to drag an Irish rod-herring across the path

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is another futility. Unionists will one and all support the Govern- ment in the sternest warfare on murder and sedition in Ireland. Even those who, like ourselves, think that if...

The King, accompanied by the Queen, went to Belfast on

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Wednesday to open the first Parliament of Northern Ireland. He had a most enthusiastic reception at the hands of the loyal Ulster people. The King's Speech was admirably attuned...

The week has been full of talk of negotiations and

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intrigue in regard to tho Parliamentary position of the Government. The rumours will, however, not be resolved in time for our comment, since we go to press on Thursday too...

TO OUR READERS.

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Readers experiencing difficulty in obtaining the " Spectator " regularly and promptly should become yearly subscribers. The yearly subscription, including Postage to any address...

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The ballot of the miners last week on- the coal-owners'

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terms yielded an unwelcome surprise for the country and, it would seem, for the Miners' Federation Executive. Every district showed a majority for rejecting the terms. In all,...

The Prime Minister went on tospeak of the Japanese Alliance,

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which bad helped to preserve peace and fair play in the Far East. We desired to preserve the well-tried friendship of Japan, and to apply it to the solution of all questions in...

We have dealt elsewhere with the salient features of the

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speech made by Mr. Hodges at the Labour Party's Conference at Brighton—the passages in which he resigns Labour's claim to rule us by Direct Action, and in effect lays it down...

The Prime Minister on Monday welcomed the statesmen hem the

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Dominions and India who had come to attend the Imperial Conference. The war, he said, had exhausted the belligerents, but at home there was no such distress as Great Britain...

The portion of Mr. Hodges'' speech which dealt with the

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problem of the moment—that is,.the -return of the miners to work--.was -touched on with genuine feeling and also with dis- cretion. It ran as follows There they stand, a...

On Friday, June 17th, Mr. Hodges informed the Prime Minister -

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of the result of the ballot, and said-that the strike was to continue. Apparently he expected the Prime Minister to make some new proposal. Mr. Lloyd George on Saturday last...

The Labour Party conference on Wednesday by overwhelming majority supported

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the executive, in their refusa l to admit the Coinmunist -Party. Mr. Herbert Smith, the miners' leader, said that the Milers' Federation " aa a- body" did not believe in...

Upon these words we shall make few comments. We have

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the greatest possible sympathy with the men, for they have seen blunder after blunder committed by those who under- took to lead them to victory. Who can wonder if they feel...

Many pits were opened on Monday, In readiness for the

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resumption of work, but only in the Cannock Chase district of Staffordshire did miners return in large numbers. It was apparent in the Midlands and in East Lothian and elsewhere...

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Sinn rein gangs on Thursday night, June 16th, made a

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concerted attack on various signal-boxes on the railways outside London. They used motor-cars—in one case stealing- a taxi-cab from the unwary cabman, who was.assaulted and...

What the electors think about the Government's excessive expenditure- was

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shown in the East Hertfordshire by-election on Thursday, June 18th. Mr. Pemberton Billing,the Independent member, had resigned. In his place the electors returned Admiral...

Lord Salisbury in a letter to the. Press on Monday

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pointed the-moral of the East Hertfordshire election and earlier contests of a similar character. Sir Hildred Carlile was beaten because he supported the Coalition, which no...

It is with the deepest regret that we record'the sudden

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death, following upon an operation, of Mr. Claude Levitt Fraser, author of the scenery and costumes for. As You Like h, The Beggar's Opera, and Lord Dunsany's If. If Mr. Lovat...

The House of Commons had an interesting debate on the

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Imperial Conference on Friday, June 17th. Sir John Davidson said that with the Dominions, who put into the field a million troops of unsurpassed quality, we could do anything if...

On Thursday, Juno 16th, M. Brieux, the dramatist, addreesed a

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large audience at the Institut Francais. Mr. A. B. Walkley was in the chair and Mr. Bernard Shaw proposed a vote of thanks. M. Brieux, among other points, made a spirited...

Mr. Chamberlain, in reply, said that the British Empire was

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a league of nations, meeting in conference on terms of equality, autonomous and-yet united. The initiative in proposing changes should come - from the Dominions. The Government...

The. Irish, rebels during the past week have made repeated

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attaeks .oa.the troops - and police in Dublin, without doing much harm except to unfortunate passers-by. Near Ifillstreet, County CO*, last-week, a police patrol was ambushed,...

Bank Bate, 6 per cent., changed from 6y per cent.jime

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23, 1921 . ; 6 ppeer cent. War. Loan was on Thursday, .574; ursday week, 871; a year ago, 84k.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE JAPANESE ALLIANCE. I T is time that the Home Government and the Prime Ministers of the sister nations of the Empire, now in conference, should judge of the advisability of...

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THE COAL CRISIS.

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O N Tuesd a y Mr. Frank Hodges made a speech which without exaggeration texaggeration can be described as a great speech, and what is much better than a great speech, a...

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THE GOVERNMENT AND IRELAND.

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r 11.E Lord Chancellor made it plain in his speech in the House of Lords on Tuesday that the Govern- ment ,would persevere with the policy which they have adopted in Ireland....

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THE PALESTINE' BLUNDER.

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f` Who has blonderedlheee thynges onithio faryon ?"--Palsgrave (circa 1530) [quoted2in Weekley's Etymological' Dictionary of 11140,erntlinglislo]. rrtil ERE used to. be. one...

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POETICAL SALADS.

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I T is one of the paradoxes or rather curiosities of litera- ture that the decadent or Byzantine epochs show many of the characteristics of the Golden Age. Perhaps, hewever, it...

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ECONOMY AND CANDOUR. T HE small troubles of to-day—the topical troubles,

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if we may be allowed the phrase—nearly all connect themselves with a shortage of money. They afflict the comparatively poor—those, we mean, who, while they have never felt the...

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FINANCE—PUBLIC AND PRIVATE.

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GLEAMS OF LIGHT. [To . ma EDITOR OP TEE "SPECTATOR."] Slit, —At the moment of 'writing the Stock Exchange is so thoroughly gloomy, and is so inclined to throw over all its...

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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.] THE ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE....

A LEAGUE OF NATIONS CONFERENCE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE

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" SPECTATOR."' SIR,—A few notes on the four-day session of the International Conference of Associations for the League of Nations may be of interest. The most prominent...

A LEAGUE OF GOOD CITIZENS.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' Sin,—I have read with much interest the leading article in your issue of June 11th. Perhaps you would allow me to enumerate our objects as...

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THE MURDER OF DEAN FINLAY.

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(To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In the Spectator of June 18th, p. 766, you mention : " We have heard of no protests from the Romish Church." You evidently had not seen...

THE RACES OF THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS. (To THE EDITOR OF

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THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—As Colonel Melville truly observes, there are two dis- tinct types of mankind still inhabiting the northern parts of Scotland. The . smaller type, there...

RED CROSS CURATIVE POSTS.

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[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sus,—I read the article on " Centres for Medical Treatment" in your issue of June 18th with great interest, and also your footnote saying...

CENTRES FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT.

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[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Snt,—Having had during my fifty years of medical practice, including hospital and dispensary work, abundant opportuni- ties of seeing the...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sta,—I must ask

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the hospitality of your columns to suggest tho desirability of some branch of the Middle Classes Union or some rich member of such body to undertake the reprint of your leading...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPBCTATOR."]

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Sta,—Is not the answer to Colonel Melville's question this? The small, swarthy men met with in the Highlands and in parts of Ireland and. Wales are not of Celtic origin at all,...

THE LATE MR. WARDE FOWLER.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sni,—Some of your readers may care to read a small personal reminiscence df Wards Fowler, student, scholar, historian, and lover of birds,...

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THE NANCY PASSION MAY.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,--SOTII0 of your readers might possibly be interested to know that a Passion Play, beautiful as to acting and staging, is being...

A CORNCRAKE FEIGNS DEATH.

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[To-me Eames or ens ," Seacerroa."] believe your readers might be interested in.the following little story of a corncrake. Our gardener and his wife have a cat to whioh they...

(To sus ED/TOR or THE " SPECTATOR."3 .

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SIR,—Your correspondent Mr. J. Challenor Smith is quite right as to the scarcity of the swallows this summer. We,. how- ever, cannot blame the Italians for the cause this...

SWALLOWS.

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[To Tee Ferree or Tax " Sexceeron.”1 Sale—The great destruction of swallows takes place not:in Italy but in France. Before the war I heard that strong currents are sent along...

" WHO ARE THE MINERS?"

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—Mr. F. Jobling asks what I was aiming at in my letter in your issue of May 28th, I am happy to tell him, although the answer seems...

WORN-OUT HORSE TRAFFIC.

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(To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—By request of several of your readers we ask your kind help to make widely known the following points : (1) The Bill before Parliament...

A STRANGE BIRD.

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ITo THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sni,—I hope one of your readers may be able to identify two birds I saw here yesterday (June 12th). They were about the size of a thrush,...

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NOTICE.—When "Correspondence" or Articles are signed. with the writer's name

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or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are »narked " Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with .the mode...

THE ATRDI

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THE DIAGTEILFiFF BALLET AT PRINCES THEATRE. Tee Russian Ballet is the one entertainment to which it is justifiable to apply the term "brilliant" -in the particular sense that...

BOOKS.

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SOME DIFERENCES FROM THE EiNSTEM THEORY OF RELATIVITY.* LORD HALDANE has written a book which deals with a very much wider range of subject than are involved in those purely...

P O:ETRX.

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RAIN IN SPRING. Cloud films that hardly stain The sky's blue hall Gather, dissolve, .and fall In ,sudden visitations of bright rain. Then the soft voice of seas Is heard in...

The Editorzeannot except reepontrOility for any article, poems,-or kttersettbmitted to.him,

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but when stamped and addressed.envelopes aresent he will do his. best to return contributions intease of rejection. Poesns 'should be addressed to the Peetry.Editor.

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THE WAGES OF LABOUR.* Ma. Wnixor GRAHAM., the Labour Member

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for Central Edin- burgh, has produced a sane and helpful book on the wages question. Most Labour politicians who write on this subject are either ignorant of economics or...

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LIFE AND LETTERS OF TORE DUTT.* Wz are bound to

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say that this is a very disappointing book. Every student of English literature who remembers the appearance of the poems of Torn Dutt—the volume intrc- duencl by Mr. Gosse—in...

M. VENIZELOS.*

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MR. CHESTER'S new biography of M. Venizelos is very well worth reading. It describes clearly the career of a remarkable man, and, it throws much light on recent events in...

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THE FALL OF FRENCH FEUDALISM.*

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Is IS commonly supposed that the National Asseinbly abolished feudalism in France on August 4th, 1789. The Assembly said that •it had done so •on that memorable night when, in...

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AMONG THE BOLSHEVIKS.* hr this intensely interesting and obviously truthful

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book Captain Francis McCullagh describes his experiences among the Bolsheviks from January to April of 1920. He was a member of the British Military Mission at Omsk, and his...

FICTION.

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SISTERS-IN-LAWat OF the brilliant group or " bunch " of Californian beauties who figure prominently in Mrs. Atherton's latest novel, we are told that Alexina Groome was the most...

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POETS AND POETRY,

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MR. SQUIRE'S ANTHOLOGY.* THE fact that will probably strike the reader most on looking through Mr. Squire's Selections from Modern Poets is the remarkable gap that the omission...

The Golden Shoe. By Justin Huntley McCarthy. (Hodder and Stoughton.

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8s. 6d. net.)—Cynthia Moon and Clarence March, two lonely girls in London, decide to adopt each other's names, for reasons which the reader must discover for himself. The real...

READABLE NOVELS.—The Glorious Hope. By Jane Burr. (Duckworth. 8s. 6d.

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net.)—An exposition of the working of the American divorce laws in Bohemian New York. The title of the book and the optimistic note which prevails throughout lead the reader to...

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The Law of. Naval Warfare. By J. A. Hall. (Chapman

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and Hall. 30e. net.)—Mr. Hall published the first edition of his useful book just -before the war. This new edition has thus had to be in great part rewritten. It is a...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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throlim.in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.) Edward Prince of Wales. By G. Ivy Sanders. (Nisbet. 2s. 6d. net.)—This pleasant and unpretentious...

Studies in Islamic Mysticism. By R. A.. Nicholson. (Cam- bridge

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University Press. 24s. net.)---Dr. Nicholson has described in this work the life and teaching of three famouaSufis or mystics, the Persians Alm Said (967-1049) and Al-Jill...

'Roland d Roncevaux. By Joseph Bedier. (Clarendon Press. 2s. net.)—Professor

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Bddier's Romanee Lecture, delivered on June 4th, was a brilliant analysis of the Chanson de Boland, the first of the spies of chivalry and one of the products of the great...

The Corpus Mosaary. Edited by W. M. Lindsay. (Cam- bridge

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University Press. 40s. net.)—Professor Lindsay has performed a very difficult task -in editing " F.ngland's oldest dictionary," an eighth-century glossary in the library of...

The Koran. Translatedinto English by George Sale. (Warne. 10s. net,)—Sale's

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translation first appeared in 1134. Sir Edward Denison Ross, in a preface to this comely reprint, says that Sale's version has not been superseded, and that his " prelimi- nary...

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Who Rules .Russia : the Personnel of the Soviet Bureaucracy.

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New York : Association Unity of Russia.)—This pamphlet gives lists of the members of the various Bolshevik committees which rule Russia. It indicates the nationality of each...

The Extra Pharmacopoeia. Vol. IL; 17th. Edition, revised by W.

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Harrison Martindale, Ph.D., F.C.S., and W. Wynn Westcott, M.B. Lond., D.P.H. (H. K. Lewis. 7a- 6c1. net.)—Testate that The Extra Pharmacopoeia has become indispensable to every...

The Imperial Press Conference in Canada: By Robert Donald, With

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a preface by Lord Burnham. (Hodder : nd Stoughton. 25s, net.)—Dr. Donald has written aiull and intemstingaccouut. illustrated with many portraits and other photographs, 'of the...

The Historic Names of the Streets and. Lazes of Oxford.

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By H. E. Salter. With a Map and a Preface by Robert: Bridges. (Clarendon Press. 3s. 6d. net.)—The author of this interesting contribution to the history of Oxford quotes on the...

about trade-and industry and about prominent Chinese politicians in this

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interesting but somewhat disconnected book. His object is to interest British readers in the development of China's natural resources.

The Annals of the Middlesex Hospital at Clacton-on-Sea During the

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Great War. By Comyns Berkeley and Victor Bonney.—This clever and amusing book is sold for the benefit of the Middlesex Hospital, but by a strange oversight neither the name of...

We have received the first number of the DaMsowsie .Review,

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a quarterly edited by Professor H. L. Stewart, of Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia : Review Publishing Com- pany, 2 dollars a year). " What we have in mind," says the...

Lloyd George and Co. Cartoons by Low fro in the

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Star. (G. Allen and Unwin. 2s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Arnold Bennett explains in a preface that some remarks of his on the merit of Mr. David Low's cartoons for the-Bulletin caused Mr....