the 'miners' point of view less satisfactory than, Mr. Churchill's proposal of September 8th. Mr. Churchill then proposed the laying down in the first place of nationally agreed...

would be a negation of all the Prime Minister's noble hopes and avowals ; it would mean that peace in industry hich is the one hope for our country—had been indefinitely...

On Friday, September 17th, Mr. Baldwin had conferences first with the President of the Mining Association and then with four officials of the Miners' Federation. The result was...

T HE position in the coal dispute when we write is that if a settlement is not reached quickly matters may drift so far as to be virtually beyond control. Things would then in a...

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France, and that he has sanctioned M. Briand's very , friendly advances to Germany, we must recognize that a long _step forward has been taken. It is known that Herr Stresemann...

secure the unanimity of the fourteen members of the Council, but • happily the representative of Norway in the Assembly succeeded in restoring to Lord Ceeil's scheme the clause...

is disappointing in the size and membership of the new Council, the spirit of the League has become a reality which is now certain to conquer all difficulties. Not only have the...

any State should be designated in advance as "re-eligible" for a second . term Of three . years. There was only one candidate, Poland, and she easily obtained the 'necessary...

place of the new non-permanent members of the Council of the League of Nations. It had been arranged, of course, that in order to give a start to the new rule that the...

that.. the present proposals of the Government invert the order of Mr. Churchill's, programme. They dethrone a national principle from the first place and make it retrospective...

siderable possibilities. The Arbitration Tribunal, for one thing, might be made to gather about it such powers that the whole settlement would in effect be that national...

the plebiscite in the . Saar Basin, which is due in nine years, should be held sooner or that it should be abandoned altogether, on the ground that the population is almost...

from hurricane which has visited the Coasts of Florida. Last Saturday the hurricane burst on Miami and Palm Beach, and the wind is said to have had a speed of more than a...

Postmaster-General in exploiting letters for advertising is a good sign. No doubt the- Postmaster- General must fulfil the contracts into which he - has entered, but after that...

the transportation of a whale on a motor lorry from Lincolnshire to the Natural History Museum in London. The whale is said to have lived three days on the lorry. "At night when...

proposed to end the boycott of Hong-Kong on October 10th. They will, however, raise the tariff, and this will involve—perhaps is intended to involve—delicate questions among the...

Yang Sen releases the British merchant vessels, as he is. apparently-thinking of doing. The inquiry would still have to be held into the sinking of the Chinese sampan. It seems...

less intensity. The special corre- spondent. of the Times says that the number of dead is probably about one hundred and fifty, though so many are still missing that it is...

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101 7 7 5 .; on Wednesday week 101 ; a year ago 102. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 851; on Wednesday...

THE CANADIAN ELECTIONS T Hk Canadian Elections offer an omen of the best kind for the health and strength of the Empire • .••.• • and for •the tie that binds the Commonwealth...

have V V been hard at work discussing each other's virtues and failings. Once' uPon a time publicists . on both sides of the Atlantic Were So busy giving the - other party good...

Emperor's auto- biography which we publish this week is full of puzzles for every student of education and of what has nowadays become a special branch in the study of...

W E are a forgetful people, not prone to hero-worship. We have forgotten nearly all the saints, but not all, not St. Francis. Indeed we are trying very hard just now to...

ruin or the restoration of a famous building invariably produces as great a public outcry as would a proposal for its destruction. This is not so hard to understand as one might...

Father Ronald Knox will review Mr. H. G. Wells's Mr. Belloe objects . to "The Outline of History."

Tim result of the Canadian Election was not unexpected to those in touch with Canadian opinion. Canadian friends had told me that Mr. Meighen was likely to fall between two...

dropping astern, are vanishing tike phantom towers in the golden haze that veils the valley of the river. Nanking, the ancient seat of the mighty, with its grey walls and...

"SANGER'S CIRCUS" [" THE CONSTANT NYMPH." BY MARGARET KENNEDY BASIL DEAN. NEW THEATRE.] THREE notable things emerge from the dramatized version of Miss Margaret Kennedy's...

THE PROMENADES Tim sudden assertion of tonality at the end of the Hindemith Concerto took the Promenade audience by surprise last week. It was necessary for Sir Henry Wood to...

A LETTER FROM MONTREAL [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] S1R,—The topic of Canada's relation to the official representa- tive of the British Crown seems to occupy the minds of...

Mons the new war 7 filrn now being shown at the Marble Arch Pavilion, is the finest of all the pictures of actuality which for some time now have been a speciality of the...

11-114, CHURCH AND POLITICS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Srn,—Mr. Helbey's "historical parallel?' is curiously interest. lug, but it is perhaps not so close as he...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Your contributor, Mr. Robert Lynd, bases the case for osteopathy upon the following propositions :—(1) That it is a genuine form of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia.,—VVhosoever may have watched the German Press during the past months must have noticed both the appreciable increase in friendliness of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Your leading article of the 18th recalls a conversation with the Kaiser before 1890, related by Rear-Admiral Tracey, who had just returned...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—M. B. B. writes in your current issue, "Among the internal" evidences that John was the writer of the Fourth Gospel and the beloved...

Sin,—Since writing the article on Tibet which appeared in your issue of August 28th, I have received further information from an authoritative source which indicates how...

Sin,—May I call attention to the Festival of St. Francis which we are organizing at the Guildhouse, Eccleston Square ? It is seven hundred years ago—on the evening of October...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snt,—I hope that you will allow me to reply to the letter of" Decanus " in your issue of September 11th. He suggests that St. Luke's language...

a, — The Smoke Abatement Conference recently held in Birmingham, and the - important articles on this subject which appear from time to time in your columns, make me hope that...

of the SPECTATOR.] - • • • Sla,—In your issue of September 4th I read a report of the Haslemere Festival of Chamber Music, of which I am one of the organizers, and noted therein...

the SPECTATOR.] think your readers may be interested in a series of Popular Talks" on "Travel Science, and Invention," to be given during October and November, in aid of King...

SIR,—The death of Lord Lyell may be to some of your readers a reminder of his life rather than a shock, for he had very completely retired from the public eye. Yet even those...

CREATION IF I had an acre of land- () an acre of land Within cry of the hills, the high hills, And the sea and the sand, And a brook with its silvery voice— I would dance...

[COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATER' OF AMERICA BY TILE New York 'Times.] Famous Trials of History. By the Rt. Hon. The Earl of- Birkenhead. (Hutchinson. 21s. net). LORD...

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Flew-on, 101 Great Russell Street, has issued its first other. Succeeding issues will appear every autumn. This mber is beautifully printed and has articles and reviews by...

the ; A'Makly- Southertrei; . ',' - (7 . 1. • 641ky :Mr. Rex Clements; sists of a. series of jolly good yarns of wind januners and..: est Coast clippers-- - There . is nothing....

hose advice no doubt sounds better from the footlights than C printed page : but this to "a very young woman" may quoted: "Don't ask nurse how many brothers she has the Guards....

On the - Relation of Poetry to Verge. oskrit scholars - of antiquity regardedWaS essential in try as :something.: ineXpressible_ and- ineomprehensible; the., thetic...

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London enkins, 21s.) that he does not believe electric signs are of sell advertising value, because he looked for some time one and only carried away a distinct impression that...

It is obviously impossible to summarize the .• mmendationEi made for promoting the interests of con- mers and producers within the Empire : we can only. amend the Whole...

the worst faux pas they have ever made, and the Editor offers - two 'prizes of 2,5 eacli for the tiest letters - of no more than 'nye hundred words (preferabiji:less) written on...

"Everyone who thinks and feels is apt at times to fall into the state of Mind of the Psalmist, and believe that = - 'All the earth is full of darkness and cruel habitations.'...

The True Stevenson : a Study in Classification. By c S. Hellman.. (Little, Brown and Co. $3.50 net.) WHEN Robert Louis Stevenson died there was a quite flats conspiracy among...

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e Letters of Marie Antoinette, Fersen and Barnave. Edited by 0. G. de Heidenstam. (The Bodley Head. 12s. lid.) STORY is only dull when we study it in outline. As soon one gets...

Ancient Man. By Roy Chapman Andrews. (Putnami. 256.) • TIrEse two books have in common the endeavour and the success of throwing the light of the past on the present ; but they...

(Dent. Bs.) IF anyone were to suggest that the characteristic of the En, genius were anything other than individualist, he would howled down by a great number of indignant...

Co. fs. (Id. net.)—As sweeping and adventurous a tale as any that has been published for many months, this new work from Mr. Chambers takes for its principal character Captain...

to gauge what can have been in the mind of Mr. Selver when he decided to write this book : impossible to decide whether - it is a far-fetched joke or an attempt to Fn tonish...

THE FORTUNES OF HUGO. By Denis Mackail. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d. net.)—This enchantingly light-hearted and diverting book concerns the adventures of Hugo Peak, a rich young man of...

written, restrained in tone and in style, this sincere and simple story of South Africa yesterday is comparable in matter only to The -Scarlet Letter. The Cape Dutch are just...

gland and New Zealand. By A. J. Barron. With an Intro- duction by Earl Jellieoe. (Methuen. 8e. 6d. net.) PD JEtricoz's impressions of the happy and prosperous minion in which...

Homo PUPPY. I have just had experience while training a young spaniel- s Norfolk springer—of the astonishing sense of direction or homing instinct in dogs. The dog, which is a...

A very notable experiment in intensifying production fro the land has begun to achieve economic success in Berkshire in the very county where so many acres have relapsed prairie...

one of the very small, the lamentab small, group of men who are backing their belief that the Ian will pay a good return (to-day not less than seventy Yea ago) if capital is...

It is always a pleasant thing to note a new English so of production competing with imports ; and for many reaso it is satisfactory to hear, and see, that the bulbs, which are...

pearl fishing in the Southern Pacific, has as exciting and romantic a plot as one can wish for. The pearl traders whom he depicts are supermen. Filled with an insatiable...

"ON, Pioneers ! " should be the motto of Miss Goodman Salverson's story, The Viking Heart (Brentano's, 7s. 6d.). The description of the Norse spirit in Canada during the...

It is a date in the year when the wonder of the migratory inipulse and skill is borne in upon us. The cuckoo has a finer and more insistent instinct than the puppy ; and the twp...

Sheet of Nobel Industries, to which „I made a reference in these columns a fortnight ago, was fully confirmed at the recent meeting when the shareholders paid the directork a...

AN IMPORTANT CONFERENCE BY ARTHUR W, KIDDY, RATEVER diyergent views there may be with regard the success which has been achieved by the League of ations there can be no doubt...

The Annual Report of the Company is an attractive one if only in the sense that it gives a most detailed account of the Company's operations, quite distinct from the RePort and...

At the recent meeting -of the Venezuela Oil Concessions Holdings Company, an indication was given that the develop- . Ments of the company's business would call for fresh...

The iiceoMits published for the second year of Beecham Estates and Pills, Limited—La concern ,which, it may be re- membered, owns also the Covent Garden Estate—show a very...