led them so far astray, gradually return to work, as we suppose they will, the owners must not behave as victors who can act on the principle of woe to the vanquished. For some...

T HE coal dispute seems to have lapsed into a drifting state which gives little hope of a return to the Report. We have written on the subject in our first leading article, but...

example of new terms which seem quite attractive enough to thousands of men who arc tired of idleness and earnestly desire to earn what money they can. The men are asked to work...

exhausting campaign. He has in effect instructed the miners who are not willing to sign on to give a bad time to the " blacklegs," and the die-hards have been acting literally...

declaring that the hours of work and wages which were in force before the stoppage were now out of question, that they could not consent to a national agreement and that they...

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which is characteristic of the Japanese, refused to reduce the wages below . what they thought was a conventionally proper standard. The employees Might, of course, have struck...

from Mr. William Graham, the well-known Labour Member of Parliament, who pointed out how much common ground there is for men of all shades of -opinion to cover before we can...

Overthrown as suddenly as he had over- thrown the Government fourteen months ago. General Kondyhis, who was under threats from the dictator, suddenly led a military...

in the Saar Basin, for then it seemed that a sensible commer- cial treaty was being arranged between France and Germany in regard to the trade of the Basin. At the approaching...

in the forthcoming session at Geneva. If Germany's claim to become the sole new permanent member of the Council should be rejected again, as it was rejected in March, the Whole...

in the Thars of Wednesday from Messrs. D. Gestetner, Ltd. Messrs. GeStetner quoted from a letter received from one of their representatives in Japan who describes how certain...

members ought to be a small directing committee, and so far as we can see . ahead there is no room for any Power except France, Italy, Japan, Great Britain and Germany with, of...

Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard University. He was born in Boston more than ninety years ago. He was a competent mathematician and scientist but lett his tutorial post at...

Swift MacNeill, who was more learned in Parliamentary history and procedure than any man of his time. As a member of the old Irish Home Rule Party he was eminently a man of...

in every detail of his appearance almost from pole to pole. 'What was the secret of his success ? Probably that he was graceful, that he had a discreet economy of gesture and...

i n state " of the dead film star, Rudolph Valentino, that many persons have been crushed and injured. Surely a very curious and interesting sign of the times in which we live !...

Finance Minister moved the consideration of the Currency Bill, the first step towards giving effect to the recommendations of the Hilton Young Commission which were fully...

last week on the occasion of the commemoration of the last naval engagement between Great Britain and the States, in 1814. Mr. Kellogg paid a fine tribute to our national...

the Kuominchun troops from Nankow to Kalgan is said to have been a voluntary one ordered by General Feng from Moscow, but Marshal Chang Tso-lin claims that his Fengtien and...

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

" WITH," NOT " FOR " T HE latest phase in the coal dispute fills us with a sense of the utter futility of all that has happened. We wrote cheerfully last week in anticipation...

G ENERAL BRUCE is reported to be experiencing a difficulty in obtaining permission from the Tibetan Government to resume his attempts upon Mount Everest. This is not surprising...

T HE MARQUIS DE ESTELLA has startled the world, not so much because he has asked for a Spanish protectorate of Tangier (a thing which everybody knows that Spain has long desired...

T WO recent books on Christian Science* suggested to my mind that it would be of interest to visit one of its Churches. For ieading about a thing is never tile same as seeing...

of the fact. In an age when only the uneducated have any convictions to speak of, and when even they hesitate to express them, Sir Joseph's definite and uncompromising belief in...

notify the Manager of the SPECTATOR BEFORE MIDDAY ON MONDAY OF Ewen WEEK. - The preirious address la which the paper ha's been sent should be quoted in each ease.

IN many British counties the example of Surrey in devising a scheme for the education of its gipsies is likely to be followed. These swarthy nomads, who have attracted to...

BY A SMALL SHOPKEEPER. [In response to requests we have been publishing a few of the articles, describing a characteristic day's work or experience, which were sent in for a'...

friend in America sends me some extracts from the legis- lation of various States in their attempt to meet the evil• In the States of Massachusetts, Vermont and Connecticut ,...

THE Geneva Institute of International Relations has just gone through its third annual programme, jointly arranged by the League of Nations Union (London) and the League of...

Italian Press. Signor Faelli states that Signor Mussolini has long had an ambition of founding " a diminutive paper with potted news." The Rome correspondent of the Observer...

forth their own views instead of confining their reviews to a description of the volume under consideration ? Nothing more to the point has been said on this subject than what...

six pages opens up interesting possibilities. I remember at one time Lord Northcliffe was enthusiastic about " tabloid " journalism, and on the first day of the present century...

Downsmen who intend to guard their inheritance and to enlarge the knowledge of it. To preserve the rights of way on the surface, to extract from below tin evidence of past...

motor accidents, in particular the number of collisions at blind corners and cross-roads. We agreed that the Ministry of Transport would do well to introduce the caniveau as...

America, which in the large cities has largely become a " parking " problem. The Scientific American of New York contains an imaginative article by Mr. H. W. Slauson, an...

vehicular traffic under the Hudson River will be ready for its first tests. According to the Popular Science Monthly of New York the tunnel has cost nearly £10,000,000, and will...

THE ART OF MR.. SEYMOUR HICKS [" THE TRUTH ABOUT THE RUSSIAN DANCERS." BY J. M. BARRIE. " SLEEPING PARTNERS." BY SACIIA GUITRY. TRANSLATED BY SEYMOUR HICKS. SAVOY THEATRE.]...

to the excellent work of the 1820 Memorial Settlers' Asso- ciation, whose London offices are at 133 Piccadilly. There is a new category of applicants with which the Association...

parts of Great Britain, will be opened by the Lord Mayor of Birmingham on Monday, September 6th, at Bingley Hall, Birmingham. The matters to be discussed include " Industry and...

A LETTER FROM BUCHAREST [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--The weather in Rumania, as in all agricultural countries with an undeveloped industry, is a factor of paramount...

THE GREAT * INDUSTRIAL OPPORTUNITY [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—May I offer to your readers the experience of one who was for seven or eight years manager of a large...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The letter in your issue of the 14th inst. from Mr. Reginald Campbell is more remarkable for what it omits than for what it says, but ,...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—There can be no doubt that the author of the Fourth Gospel knew and valued our Gospel according to St. Mark. Canon Streeter thinks—and I...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—" No subject is more important or less generally under- stood than advertising in England to-day." So begins your review of two books on...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,--This is the age of the slogan. I hate both the word and the thing ; and yet I am on the point of raising the cry : " Fair play for Mr....

• [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —May I be allowed to reply to the remarks of your reviewer on my letter in your issue of 14th in3t. ? My objection was to discrimination...

and many of your readers will have been shocked by the news of the sudden death of Mr. Harold Russell, and will feel deep sympathy with those who are suffering most intimately...

rTo the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sur,—May I as one of Horatio Brown's oldest friends put on record in the Spectator—a paper to which he often con- tributed both in prose and...

[To the Editor of the SeEcT.vrott.] Su:,--The abuse of outdoor relief in certain districts is, I fear, obscuring other very important issues involved in - 1.11(: Poor Law reform...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspindent, " W.B.," in his letter published in your issue of the 21st inst., takes me to task in connexion with my article on the...

Literary Coincidences " encourages me to draw to your attention the great similarity between Yeats' " When you are old " and Ronsard's sonnet. " Pour Helene," which begins "...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] STR,—Not so well known, but more remarkable than the coin- cidence between two lines of Tennyson's In Memoriam xxvii. and two lines of Clough's...

SIR,— "To all the sensual world proclaim . . One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name."—Motto al head cf Chapter xxxiv. of " Old Mortality." • -...

SIRIUS ORION, with his ancient sword, blue burnished by the night, . Girds on his belt, while Dian bends her bow of slender light Against the flutt'ring Pleiades, whose winking...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With reference to a letter in your issue of August 14th in which one item of " An Outline of Practical Eugenic Policy," recently issued by...

[To Me Editor SIR,—The shortage of household coal no doubt troubles many of your readers. As a dweller in a small country house, so far as my own convenience is concerned, I do...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SM,—We should be grateful if you will allow us to call the attention of any of your readers who are interested in Economic History to the fact...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The subject of birth control and its relation to Christian ethics is one which is greatly exercising the minds of many thoughtful people,...

O BROODING NIGHT, Whose billowy breast is clad In shining silks of violet and blue, To make one lover this soft evening glad Pull closer round thee clouds of purple hue. O...

Mr. Lawrence. has chosen for his play_ the early years of David's life, from the time of the poet's anointing at the hands of Samuel, to the days when he was fugitive before the...

A pleasant " country house " type of story is Flame and Wind (by Norah John Beale, Leonard Parsons, 7s. 6d.), to which an, East A fr ican section gives zest and justifies the...

A NEW novel by John Galsworthy creates a stir through the English-speaking countries and in Germany. The public hastens to the libraries to lay hands on it. Yet the contents are...

a fifty-three page monograph which merits fuller consideration than can be given here. Mr. Keynes considers that Capitalism is, on the whole, more efficient for attaining...

nom primaeval ooze to Piccadilly, Mr. Happold traces the adventures of his hero, Man (The Adventure of Man. Christopher's, .4s. 6d.), and succeeds in telling a story which is...

has a 'stick of dynamite in its little preface about " the destructive influence of our iniquitous financial system " Which should not, however, deter us from reading further,...

of Nations at Work (Nisbet and Co., 3s. 6d.), neither. protesting over much nor being unduly pessimistic. - He gives us the facts in this little book and keeps a tight rein upon...

book on Japan. (Japan. Black. 7s. 6d.) Questions such as "Are the Japanese honest ? " are discriminatingly dealt with. " Some movements in Modern Japan " is also of absorbing...

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A review of H. G. Wells's new novel, The World of William Clissold, by Hugh Walpole ;. also a review of Mr. Soinefset Maugham's new book of stories, The Casuarhia Tree.

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PROFESSOR CORY'S latest volume pictures (" pictures " is eminently the word for his graphic and vivid narrative) the history of South Africa between 1838 and 1846. It is a...

THE literature of music increases almost with every post. It is a sign of the times that more and more people are interested in music, while the number of actual music-lovera is...

The Streets of London. By Gertrude Burford Rawlings. (Bles. 3s. 6d.) A Literary Man's London. By Charles G. Harper. (Palmer. 12s. 6d.) A Child's Guide to London. Illustrated....

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In London's Shadows. By The Rev. Frank L. Jennings._ (Heath Cranton. 6s.) Ma. FRANK L. JENNINGS, writes a modest account of a heroic adventure. Impelled by pity, he spent his...

INTERPRETATIONS. By L. Cope Comford. (Harrap. Os. net:)--,In this little volume of essays, Mr. Cornford ha, given us a varied selection. There are sympathetic studies of Lord...

A query has reached me concerning a certain covey of part. ridges, whose activities have become very visible since the wheat-field was cut ; there are six youngsters and three...

Blackwood..)—The His- ary of the Standard Life Assurance Company since its foun- lation in Edinburgh in 1821 makes very good reading, quite 'part from its economic interest. All...

Isaac Butt. (Macmillan. and Co.)—The authors of this examination into the moral effects of Mor- monism claim complete impartiality. They have, however, in effect written a...

Have we really come to this, at a time when houses in the country are too few, that we must_ accept the uselessness of such " places " and be content to see them tumble into...

welcome this new book about the Town, the University and the Colleges of Cambridge. For- tunately Cambridge does not stagnate. There is always something new to...

6d.)—For a paltry half-crown anyone of us can learn how to become a centenarian by buying Adding Years to Your Life (Black). The author, General Carruthers, is a distinguished...

WRITE ELEPHANTS. In a parish, of no great dimensions, some 25 miles from London, stand two spacious houses in the setting of pleasant gardens. The railway is near by. The...

Barrett pleads for the preservation of the indigenous flora and fauna of Australia. ` Except in certain places where enlightened citizens have protected them they are all...

Partridges, as well as the 'harvest in which they delight, IfiVe . flourished - this 'season ;"- but Oleic ale soiree " exceptions difficult to . diagnose. Some sporting ....

THE INVESTMENT OUTLOOK BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. A READER of these columns, while fully appreciating the effect of the coat stoppage upon our economic position, and while agreeing...

H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, at the recent opening of the British Industries Fair, urged on all members of the Empire their duty to foster and encourage British industry. " His...

Exchange markets during the past week. " Hope springs eternal," at all events in the breasts of Stock Exchange dealers and, just as there was hopefulness throughout the period...

financing the overseas trade of the country, •arid whil e it can also .be. admitted that even in financing foreign, , trade the effects indirectly often react favourably upon...

Nor has the market been entirely unaffected by the rumours current from time to time of possible big fusions, not only in colliery businesses but in some other key industries....

I agree with a correspondent who calls my attention to the ireportance of our invisible exports at a monment wh - en the visible exports are palpably falling off and occasioning...

in my comments upon our debt settlement with America I hare let that country off rather lightly in the matter of what he is inclined to describe as usurious demands on the part...