26 NOVEMBER 1927

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If Mr. Baldwin really felt that he could wash his

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hands of so harrowing a subject as the condition of the mines, he made a double mistake of judgment and of tactics. But we do not believe for a moment that that was the Prime...

EDITORIAL AND PUBLISHING OFFICES : 13 York Street, Covent Garden,

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London, W.C. 2.—A Subscription to the SPECTATOR costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The SPECTATOR is registered as a Newspaper. The...

News of the Week T HE House of Commons in the

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past ten days has had inflicted on it two scenes of noisy interruption which affect the whole immediate prospect of Parliamentary business. They further i suggegt that the...

Since this wasted day the Labour Party have been busy

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trying to create a fresh occasion far compelling Mr. Baldwin to speak. The most useful question put to the Prime Minister in the House of Commons, however, came not from the...

The Labour Party by making debate impossible missed an unparalleled

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opportunity for proving their case. If Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister's speech had been inadequate, as the Labour Party felt sure it would be, they could have made a profound effect...

We imagine that when Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister was shouted down

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Mr. Baldwin was holding himSelf in readiness, and the course of the debate—if there had been a debate—would, no doubt, have proved to him that it was not only right but...

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Of course Mr. Baldwin feels in such circumstances that he

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is being heckled in order that the Opposition may have the satisfaction of saying that they have forced him to surrender—to surrender to improper methods. Although we strongly...

Last' Saturday, 'M. froincare defended his financial policy and was,

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of course, able to point to most gratifying results. His enemies talk slightingly about his " experi- ment " ; but the world would be fortunateif the results of all political...

The Bill appointing the Statutory Commission for India ought to

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be passed quickly, but there is an unexpected revolt in the Labour Party. When the Party consented to let Mr. Walsh and Major Attlee serve on the Com- mission it was assumed...

The Report stage of the Films Bill was resumed in

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the House of Commons on Thursday, November 17th. The pUzzle of how to define a " British film " which we commented on last week was solved in one aspect by the decision that the...

The Landlord and Tenant Bill was read for the third

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time in the House of Commons on Thursday, November 17th. Sir Vivian Henderson, who spoke for the first time from the front bench, said that the Bill was true to Conservative...

Last Sunday there was a meeting of miners in Trafalgar

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Square, when the centre of attraction was the South Wales unemployed miners who had tramped to London. It was impossible to withhold pity from such a spectacle, though there is...

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The by-election last Saturday resulted in a very satisfactory victory

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for the Unionist candidate, Lady Iveagh. The figures were t . -- Lady Iveagh (U.) .. .. .. 21.221 Mr. Dougall . Masten (L.) .. .. .. 11,912 Mr. Erskine Harper (Lab.) .....

As for the routine within prisons, he believes in "

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hard work," but adds that there must be " recreation and amusement " as a reward. When all this has been said, however, there is a type of prisoner who is an enemy of society...

The Ecclesiastical Committee of Parliament have 'certified the Prayer Book

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Measure as one suitable to be presented to Parliament. Parliament, it will be remem- bered, cannot amend the Measure ; it can only accept it, or reject it, or refer it back to...

The' Government are introducing an amendment into the Uneniploy - inent Insurance

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Bill which will appreciably affect its - finance. They are now willing' to increase the 'benefits - paid to the new class Of young men and women between the - ages' of eighteen...

Sir William Joynson-Hieks has liberally interpreted his duties as Home

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Secretary, and has made a tour of all the convict prisons and many of the minor prisons. In a remarkable interview published in the papers . of Wednesday he recorded his...

Bank Rate, 44 per cent., changed, from 5 per cent.,

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on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 100k ; on Wednesday week 1004; a year ago 100. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 851: on Wednesday week...

Sir John Power prophesied gloomily,. believing that the large administrative

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charges which would fall on the landlords would inevitably cause rents to rise. The :strongest Speech - against the Bill, however, was made by Mr. Rye, who declared that it was...

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The Coal Mining Crisis

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I t is no exaggeration to say that there is a crisis in the coalmining industry. Hopes that the industry would have improved before now have not been justified, and delay in...

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An Atlantic Agreement

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T HE peace of the world depends in the first degree upon the maintenance of peace between Great Britain and the United States, and in scarcely a lesser degree on the absence of...

DIRECT subscribers who are changing their addresses are asked to

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notify The SPECTATOR Office BEFORE MIDDAY ON MONDAY OF EACH WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt number should be quoted.

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The Slum Problem—IV. Leamington M ANY visitors to Leamington have been

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shocked to discover the appalling slums that exist in this popular health resort. I remember, before the War, on one visit going round congested courts, and wondering why the...

The Week in Parliament

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DRESS accounts of the scenes which led to the adjournment of the House of Commons during the Coal debate were exaggerated. A dozen Labour members prevented Sir Philip...

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The Open-Air School

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in St. James's Park S OME fi ft y delicate children, selected from twenty schools in Westminster, are leading a jolly open- air life of work and play in an enclosure in St....

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New. Conventions in Architecture F AKED ruins and stucco battlements were

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not Victorian inventions ; they were rather natural reactions inherent in the eighteenth-century Age of Reason. Strawberry Hill and the Petit Trianon may be artistic freaks, but...

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More Public Golf Courses

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HY do we not have more public golf courses ?" asked Mr. Ben Tillett in a letter to the news- papers the other day, and it is a question to which there is no sufficient answer....

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Over the Border

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I NCONVENIENCE we have enough over the Border -I- that divides the Free State from the" Six Counties "; but yet there is a piece of excitement in the very fact of this invisible...

The Theatre

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MR. PROHACK." BY ARNOLD BENNETT AND EDWARD NOBLOCK. AT THE COURT THEATRE. " THE WAY OF THE WORLD." BY CONGREVE. AT WYNDHAM'S THEATRE.] Tins Mr. Prohack is a character. Not a...

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The New College Oxford Choir has recorded Byrd's " Jus-

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torum Animae " and Stanford's " Beati quorum via integra est " (Stanford in an austere mood). Those who favour that kind of sport can compare these gramophone performances with...

The Cinema

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• r , SECRETS OF NATURE " FILMS. AT THE LONDON PAVILION.] Tim public does not only demand films of wild and impossible adventure, or films saturated with " sex appeal," as...

Gramophone Notes

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• HIS MASTER'S VOICE. The colloquial French Course which this Company recently issued upon fifteen double-sided records, has preyed to be not so much a speculation as an answer...

[Fox " MOVIETONE." AT NEW GALLERY CINEMA.]

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No one should miss the marvellous "Movietone " pictures now showing at the New Gallery. I was utterly amazed at . the advances that have been made since I last heard a talking...

Among the recent vocal records issued by His Master's '

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Voice, one has impressed me more than all the others. This 'record is of- Beniamino Gigli singing Recondita armonia (" Tosca ") and, on the other side, Donna non vidi mai (Puc-...

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The League of Nations

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Next Week's Disarmament Discussions NEXT- Wednesday what looks like the most representative Disarmament Conference that has ever met will assemble at Geneva. But appearances...

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Country Life

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Tim work of advancing village industries in Britain is pro- ceeding with a scientific thoroughness of which all countrymen ought to be aware ; and some very interesting things...

An interesting reply to a query about the migration and

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flight of the corncrake comes from an Irish correspondent, General Higginson. He writes : " Many years ago I was partridge shooting in Co. Kildare, on one of the foothills up...

A DOG'S VOCABULARY.

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Most of us who own dogs make some attempt to discover how many words, if any, our favourites understand. An American spaniel-lover, with whom I have enjoyed some correspondence,...

This truth was triumphantly proved in the sphere of weaving

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in a charming Wiltshire village near Salisbury, largely through the talent of Miss Lovibond (Mrs. Bashford) whose methods ought to be known to the members of the Rural...

Doubtless dogs are much readier to respond to tone and

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gesture than to vocables. Possibly the Chows understand Chinese better than spaniels English, for Chinese is a tonic language ! The most Obedient of our dogs to sound are the...

REMITTED TITRE.

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Correspondents who inquire about the paying, or rather, the evasion of tithe, discussed in this place last week, will find full information in a pamphlet (No. 27) issued by the...

How many and various : and how highly skilled village arts

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and crafts exist, and even in a small way flourish, the most thoroughgoing countryman is hardly aware. But it is all down in black and white in four volumes published at...

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Letters to the Editor

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FOX-HUNTING [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have not seen all the letters written on this subject, but I note little is said on the economic aspect of the subject in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Sta,—The suggestion that the drag could take the place of the fox-hunt is no doubt partly true, but in these days of constant change and artificial substitutes of every...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, — Surely the way to

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look at hunting, if any defence be needed, is to make out a balance-sheet of the debits and credits ! Let us take the credits first, in which I will give a few facts not...

[To . the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stit,--:Every humane person must

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Welcome. the campaign against the " digging out " of hunted foxes. In my youth I hunted a good deal, but until I was out with hounds in the New Forest, not long ago, I had...

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SIR WILLIAM JOYNSON-HICKS'S MEMOR- ANDUM ON THE PRAYER BOOK

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, The Memorandum of Sir William Joynson-Hicks showing reasons why the Deposited Prayer Book should not receive the authority of Parliament...

VOTING ON THE REVISED PRAYER BOOK

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—That statistics may be made to support both sides of a disputed question may be illustrated by your correspon- dent's letter of this week...

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BYRON'S BORROWINGS

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Referring to the article under the heading, " Second Storey Work or Inspiration ? " I venture to send you the enclosed extracts from an...

OPEN-AIR SCHOOLS

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The correspondence in your paper on the subject of " Open-Air Schools " has made my already uneasy conscience thoroughly restive. For...

" THE IMPATIENCE OF A PARSON"

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] see that Mr. Adderley is dissatisfied with my notice of Mr. Sheppard's book. May -I write a few words in reply ? In the first place, the "...

THE AVIATION BOOM

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Animated by the same sentiments as those expressed by Admiral W. H. Henderson in your issue of November 12th, and realizing that, in the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With regard to the

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letters you have been publishing under the heading, " The Aviation Boom," may I be per- mitted to record a profound personal conviction ? It is this : that we are steadily...

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THE REDUCTION OF ARMAMENTS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Sts,—In your leading article of September 17th you say : " We should have liked to see Sir Ansten take' a more con- structive line upon Disarmament, but we believe that he has...

ADVICE TO YOUNG JOURNALISTS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Snt,—In replying to Mr. Max Pemberton's ingenious defence of schools of journalism, I am somewhat embarrassed by the fact that, as the mouthpiece of the Institute of...

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Poetry

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The Scribe ARISE, Saint Aodh, and find, on rising From that stone bed and quilt of rain, Your fish-plate laden by the otter, While dormice glean your share of grain. Come slip...

A USE FOR FOREIGN STAMPS IN SCHOOLS

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] am asked by a friend and former pupil to write a "covering letter " which may serve to commend the communi- cation given below. The course...

THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sht,—In your issue of September 17th, Sir William Beach Thomas discusses the migration of birds and mentions the case of Benjamin Kidd's cuckoo...

POSTMARKS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Perhaps some of

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your readers can tell me if there is a market for postmarks. I have, as the co-executor of a small estate, some to dispose of, if possible, dating from 1827 before stamps came...

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There are many pitfalls for the writer of " verses

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for children," but Mr. Humbert Wolfe in his Cursory Rhymes (Benn, 6s.) has neatly avoided them all and managed— surprisingly, when one considers the difficulties of a...

Truth Christmas number (1s. 6d.) is devised as a farcical

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broadcast programme this year, and contains the usual parodies and skits, very cleverly done. * * * *

Inexhaustible are the anecdotal and historical riches of London, and

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inexhaustible the store of books which they Inexhaustible are the anecdotal and historical riches of London, and inexhaustible the store of books which they provoke. Mr....

Some Books of the Week

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IT was by a happy chance that we learned of a remarkable novel written by an unknown Irish girl. So unusual and so refreshing is it to acclaim a new writer of genius, that we...

The new monthly journal of the Air League of the

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British Empire, Air, is a good shillingsworth with some excellent - articles by experts and a cartoon by Sir Bernard Partridge, reproduced from Pam*, with whose sentiment all...

A New Competition WE have pleasure in announcing a new

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and somewhat difficult competition for those of our readers who have a literary turn of mind. The Editor offers a prize of twenty guineas for the best short story describing...

The new Christmas number of the Graphic (2s.) is largely

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about crinolines and the days when Dickens wrote and when Sir Luke Fildes and W. S. Gilbert were contributing to the Graphic. There is a thriller by Mr. Edgar Wallace, however,...

The Daily Mail Year Book for 1928 is interesting as

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usual. An amusing feature is the offer of £100 as prize for the best answers received to twenty questions, whose solution may be discovered in the pages of the Year Book. The...

NoN-FICTION:—Bismarck, by Emil Ludwig ; Disraeli, A Picture of the

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Victorian Age, by Andre Maurois ; The Star of Piccadilly, by Lewis MelVille Prdpei Studies, by Aldous Huxley ; Raiputin, by Prince YoussoupOff ; Sir Arthur Sullivan, His Life,...

" Try to know all sorts of people . .

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. know as many cliques as you will—or can—but swear the oath of allegiance to none of them." Such, Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins tells us in his Memories and Notes (Hutchinson, 7s....

In the Library List last week the Letters of a

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Loyalist Lady (Oxford University Press, 16s.) should have been as now described.

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Some Sparkling Character Sketches

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Genius and Character. By Emil Ludwig. Translated by Kenneth Burke. (Cape. 12s. 6d.) AFTER all wars there is a certain revenge for the defeated. The embrace of wrath conveys a...

A First Novel of Genius

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Hanging Johnny. By Myrtle Johnston. (Murray. 7s. 6d.) Sow:THING of the siniit of Jude the Obscure pervades this extraordinarily mature first novel by an author of only eighteen...

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Some Art Books

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TEE very large number of books we have lately received dealing with the history or the practice of art makes it impossible for us to deal with these subjects adequately in our...

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A Friend of Children

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Tins is an extraordinary book. On the surface one would expect the usual memorial biography written round the long, arduous, but not too eventful life of some admirable philan-...

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Fiction

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Different Magics Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose. By W. B. Yeats. Illustrated and decorated by Norah McGuinness. (Macmillan. 10s. 6d.) To open this reprint of some...

The Life of a Cathedral

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York Minster Historical Tricts, 627-1927. Edited by A. Hamilton Thompson, D.Litt. (S.P.C.K. 12s. 6d.) THE tasteless controversies which unhappily represent to the public the...

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IT NEVER RAINS. By J. Murray Allison. (Hurst and Blackett.

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7s. 6d.)—Mr. Allison is a new short-story writer of considerable talent. His scenes - -and characters are very varied ; • but clean, breezy humour and satire arc his predomin-...

The Jazz Age

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MODERN Society does not lack its critics, but few of them have . • been more scathing than Mr. Hamilton. It is true that, though refers to " honesty, decency, kindnesa,....

General Knowledge Questions

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' The Editor awards the prize of One guinea offered weekly for the best thirteen general knowledge questions to a gentle- man who prefers to be known as " Orlando." • • Who...

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THE DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY : 1912-1921. Edited by H.

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W. C. Davis and J. R. H. Weaver. (Oxford University Press. 21s.)-The new supplement to the famous " D.N.B." opens with an admirable memoir of the late Sir Sidney Lee by Sir...

Current Literature THE FARINGTON DIARY. By Joseph Farington, R.A. Volume

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VII.: 1811 to 1814. (Hutchinson. 21s.)- All readers of the first six volumes of Joseph Farington's diary will welcome the seventh. The years covered by the present book are from...

HORRID MYSTERIES (in two volumes). From the Ger- man of

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the Marquis of Grosse. By P. Will. The " Jane Austen " Horrid Novels. Edited by the Rev. Montague Summers. (R. Holden and Co., Ltd. 7s. 6d.)-" Are they all horrid ? Are you sure...

THE PRIVATE LIFE OF CHARLES IL By Arthur Irwin Dasent.

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(Cassell. 18s.)-Mr. Dasent's book is chiefly concerned with " the chargeable ladies about the Court " in the time of Charles II. He reproduces with painstaking precision the...

FILMS. By L'Estrange Fawcett. (ales. 21s.)-The film critic of the

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Morning Post has written a thoroughly amusing and human book. There is the (almost inevitable) chapter about the temperamental Mr. Chaplin's methods of work, and a good deal...

A Library List BIOGRAPHY :-In the Service of Youth. By

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Sir Arthur Sapp. (Nisbet. 8s. 6d.)-Vignettes of Memory. By Lady Violet Greville. (Hutchinson. 18s.) King James's Secret. Edited by Robert S. Rait and Annie I. Cameron. (Nisbet....

Answers to General Knowledge Questions

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1. The seventh.-2. Numa Pompilius, c. 713 s.c.- 3. In 293 lin., when the first sundial seen in Rome was planed on the Temple of Quirinus.-4. To show that ho was Emperor of Rome...

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AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT.

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It will readily be seen that interest in this very important provisional agreement is really two-fold in character. So far as the shareholders and stockholders in the two...

SAFEGUARDING PRIOR CHARGES.

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Before the present agreement can go through, however, consent is necessary from the various holders of securities in both companies, and, by reason of the actual sale of assets,...

WRITING DOWN ASSETS.

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One cannot, however, withhold a meed of admiration for the courage with which British investors have faced their losses, and the common sense and philosophical view which has...

Financial Notes

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AUSTRALIAN BORROWING. AT the moment of writing, underwriting is proceeding in connexion with an impending issue by the Commonwealth Government of Australia of a loan of...

Finance—Public and Private

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The Vickers-Armstrong Fusion IT would probably be true to say that in no direction have the after-effects of the War been more directly felt than in some of the key industries...

SCHEME BRIEFLY OUTLINED.

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Inasmuch as the full details of this Agreement have already appeared in the daily papers, I do not propose to do more than comment upon one or two of its main features. Briefly,...

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AN IrmusTatAL IssuE.

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Particulars will be found on another page of an impending issue at par of £375,000 in si per cent. Cumulative First Preference Shares of £1 each in Upsons Limited. In addition,...

CORPORATION LOANS.

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On the whole, the response given to new capital issues has been a satisfactory one, a circumstance due to the fact that in the main the issues have been of a good character and...

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The Future of Education

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TIIE people of Britain are now claiming Education as a right. This is a new fact in the light of which all those who set out to take the horoscope of Education in this country...

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The Average Girl and a Career

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[Sir Charles Wakefield was Lord Mayor of London in 1915 and is the author of On Leaving School, reviewed in our columns on June 25th.—En. Spectator.] ALTHOUGH it was not until...

Education and Insurance

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LIFE assurance can be applied to provide the cost of education in a variety of ways. The least expensive and the latest policy for this purpose is one which guarantees that if...

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Elementary Schools I HAVE been asked to write of the

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*way_ in which slum con• ditions tend to nullify the work of the Elementary - School. I write, of course, wholly - as a • parish priest; and not as an educationist, to which...

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" Less than 60,000 elementary school pupils are transferred annually

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to secondary schools, or 9-1 per cent. of any given age- group. We believe that 25% could be with advantage so trans- ferred." The report of Lord Haldane's committee deals with...

One year after the 1696 Scottish Education Act, John Locke

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Wag advocating parochial workhouse schools where pauper children between three and fourteen would be " inured to work." Instruction in spinning and knitting, in religion, but Mt...

Reviews

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Three Recent Books on Education Rise and Progress of Scottish Education. By A. Morgan. (Oliver and Boyd. 10s. Hd.) History of Elementary Education in England and Wales....

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OUTLINES OF FRENCH LITERATURE WITH CHAPTERS ON THE HISTORY OF

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FRANCE. By L. J. Gardiner. (University Tutorial Press. 7s. 6d.)—Probably no firm has given the English student in the last few years a more valuable series of text books than...

A COMPLETE MANUAL OF THE SPANISH LAN- GUAGE, by C.

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J. D. MacConnell (Effingham Wilson, 7s. 6d.), has an outstanding section on Commercial phraseology and correspondence. Commercial classes would find this book useful. Its print...

ERRORS IN SCHOOL—THEIR CAUSES AND TREAT, MENT. By Sir John

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Adams. (London University PresS. 6s.)—In spite of the reputation of the author, one finds this book dull. Why must educationists coin such words as " Ptaismometry," or hope for...

„GREEK PROSE COMPOSITION. J. A. Nairn. (Cam- bridge. 6s.)—To say

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that this book is a fitting companion to Dr. Nairn's earlier volume, Latin Prose Composition, would seem to be praise enough ; but one can go further, There are many excellent...

PRACTICAL ITALIAN GRAMMAR, by J. L. Russo (Heath, 4s. 6d.),

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is welcome. Translation passages taken from Dante, Leopardi, and from accounts of incidents in Italian history enliven it, while there are several fine illus- trations.

THE FRENCH CLASSIC AGE. By N. S. Wilson. (Hachette. 5s.

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6d.)—How often does " gloire " occur in Corneille's works ? His age tried to live up to it. The strain was great. Perhaps that was why . " the' little King with his...

EVERY BOY'S BOOK. OF GEOLOGY. By A. E. Truman and

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W. P. We stell. HOW TO STUDY WILD FLOWERS. By G. Henslow. FIFTY-TWO NATURE RAMBLES. By W. P. Westell. (Religious Tract Society. 6s. each).—Shivering mountains, pirate rivers,...

..FACTS—AN ANALYSIS MEANT TO SERVE AS AN IN- TRODUCTION TO

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EDUCATIONAL THEORY. By W. 0. Brigstocke. (Dent. 3s. 6d.)—" I propose to begin by taking myself for granted. And assuming that I am a parasitic variable, I shall say that at...

- RURAL SCIENCE, by J. Mason and J. A. Dow (McDougall,

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2s.), is very practical ; the numerous experiments enable the pupil, with small apparatus, to study for himself the soil, plant life, fertilizers, crop rotation, &c. The...

ESSAYS OF A NATURALIST. By Sir Ray Lankester. (Methuen. Is.

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6d.)—" Dragons of the prime," glaciers, bluish- green with dust falling " from interstellar space," the wedding rites of eels " in the dark salt waters of the ocean floor,"...

History and great Literature.

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THE OXFORDSHIRE SYLLABUS OF RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION FOR USE IN COUNCIL SCHOOLS. (Murby. 1s. 6d.)—This has received much commendation. It is based on the conception of a...

LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION FOR JUNIORS. C. F. U. Letts and

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G. M. Jackson. (Cambridge. 4s.)—It may be questioned whether juniors should be told (p. 86) that the future participle can express purpose, or whether the attrac- tion of the...

OUR DEBT TO GREECE AND ROME series (English agents, Harrap,

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5s.) has three new volumes which demand consideration. The title of Dr. A. T. Allen's Stage Antiquities of the Greeks and Romans may deter some people ; but if, attracted by...

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THE ROMANCE OF THE COTTON INDUSTRY IN ENGLAND. By L.

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S. Wood and A. Wilmore. (Oxford. 5s.)--Do we know that tenth-century Spain grew cotton, that the Worsley Canal came into being through the fickleness of Elizabeth Gunning, that...

THE READABLE SCHOOL BIOLOGY, by 0. H. Latter (Bell, 2s.

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6d.), treats its subject sensibly and fully, not evading the question of Reproduction. Nor is it too material- istic in its conception of the nature of life.

Apart from the books already noticed, the following will repay

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attention :- In MODERN LANGUAGES :- LEs Drava our Sour. Anatole France. (Hachette. 4e.) This is an exceptionally well bound edition.-Picamus n'Isr.ANDE. Picrm Loti. (Oxford....

THE CHEMICAL ELEMENTS AND THEIR COM- POUNDS. J. A. V.

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Butler. Macmillan. 6s. SCIENCE TO-DAY : A BRIEF STUDY OF SOME OF THE PRO- BLEMS OF TO-DAY'S PHYSIC AND CHEMISTRY. P. J. L. Smith and S. J. Dale. (Blackie. 5s.)-The former book...

THE WORLD, by J. Murray (Bell's Intermediate Geographies, is. 9d.),

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aims at providing children from 11 to 15 with a general survey of the world. The scheme (being Scotch) is logical. The geography of each continent is built' - up on tht " twin...

ASTRONOMY. H. N. Russell, R. S. Dugan, J. Q. Stewart.

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(Ginn. 2 vols. 10s. 6d. each.)-This is a revision of Young's Manual of. Astronomy, and hails from Princeton University Observatory. It is flier, however, than the now...

A BOOK OF RUSKIN. By E. M. Hewetson. (Nelson. 1s.

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9d.)-Ruskin often seems to this generation something of a prig and a bore. But we have not done with Ruskin yet. A biography, and extracts from Praterita, Fors Clanigera, Modern...

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(FINANCIAL NOTES—Continued from pagc 940.)

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-P.R.H.A. The fact that the People's Refreshment House Association, Limited, has for its president Viscount Ullswater, ex-Speaker of the House of Commons, and that its...

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_ BREWERY PROFITS. Although the annual report of Peter Walker (Warrington) and Robert Cain and Sons, Ltd., for the past year shows a moderate decline in profits, there is again...

- DE BEERS. - _ -

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As usual, the Report and Balanee:sheet of the De Beers Consolidated Mines shows a strong position. A year ago £450,000 was placed to the Dividend Reserve Fund and in the present...

• GOLDFIELDS RESULTS.

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The recent announcement that the Consolidated Goldfields Company had been able to raise its dividend from 12f to 15 per cent. had prepared the market for the satisfactory report...