30 JULY 1932

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News of the Week

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T HE British Delegates at Ottawa seem to be finding some difficulty in securing from the Canadian Prime Minister a statement of the concessions Canada would be prepared to make...

The Irish Situation The economic war between Great Britain and

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the Irish Free State is now in full operation, the main item in the list of new Irish duties on British imports being a five shillings a ton tax on coal. This is being at once...

Germany at the Polls The emergency activities of Herr von

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Papen's Cabinet have almost overshadowed the General Election in Germany, though it actually takes place on Sunday, failing some eleventh-hour intervention, which seems quite...

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Learning to Live In advocating (in his presidential address to

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the British Medical Association) the establishment of health hostels where men and women would learn in effect how to order their physical lives, Lord Dawson of Penn opened up a...

Prussia at any rate will vote under relatively normal conditions,

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for the state of emergency was lifted on Tuesday by the 'same type of Presidential decree as had imposed it. The renewed ban on public demonstrations has done its work and the...

Bye-Election Changes The two bye-elections whose results have been announced

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in the past week have increased the strength of the Opposition by one. It is a gain of a vote—two on a division, in traditional parlance—rather than the gain of a personality,...

Mr. Borah and the Debts Senator Borah's conversion to the

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idea of war debt cancellation, not out of any spirit of altruism but in the interests of the United States itself, does not mean that all America or even all the Middle West, of...

Protection and Prices The chairman of the Council of the

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Colour Users' Association had some pertinent observations to make on Tuesday on the effects of Protection in the dye-stuffs industry. The Dye-Stuffs Import Regulation Act was...

A Polish-Soviet Treaty The Non-Aggression Pact between Poland and Soviet

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Russia, signed at Moscow on Monday, in reality adds nothing to the provisions of the Kellogg Pact, which prohibits any resort to war as an instrument of national policy. But the...

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The European Entente Pact, as it is apparently to be

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called, has now been adhered to by Germany, Spain and the Little Entente States. That has the advantage of extending it a good deal beyond its original limits, though the more...

Cotton Trade Negotiations Six weeks ago the Lancashire cotton industry

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reverted to its primitive conditions in which each employer made his own arrangements with his workpeople and collective bargaining was unknown. The discomfort and confusion...

Roads and Relief The Dean of Canterbury's account, in The

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Times of Tuesday and Wednesday, of his tour of Western China to inspect famine relief works shows how urgently China needs new roads. Travel in Shensi and Kansu, up to the...

The Means Test The strict application of the Means Test

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to unemployed persons who have exhausted their insurance benefit and passed to transitional benefit is a stern economic neces- sity. Yet to administer the test is no easy or...

The New Italian Ambassador Whatever be the forces that have

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led to Signor Dino Grandi's resignation of his post as Foreign Minister of Italy, it can be no ill wind for this country that brings him to London as Ambassador. In less than...

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Great Britain at Ottawa

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A MERELY casual student of the discussions at Ottawa might be forgiven for thinking that tariff autonomy as there interpreted meant that Great Britain's tariff schedules should...

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Disarmament : Six Months' Harvest

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'INDOMITABLE optimists can at least assure each lother that after six months of a Disarmament Conference at Geneva disarmament is not substantially further off than it was. We...

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Currency at Ottawa

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BY H. V. T HE stream of world trade is trickling through a stagnant bog. Strive as we may by canalizing it to enlarge its volume, we cannot hope for the success that would he...

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The Oxford Group Movement BY THE -REV'. F. R. BARRY

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(Vicar of The University Church, Oxford). 1_ T HAVE been asked to give some account, together with some critical appraisement of the now much discussed re li g ious movement...

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Memory—Bad and Good

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BY V. SACKVILLE-WEST. M EMORY is surely the most capricious of one servants. She retains the things one would most cheerfully forget, and discards the things one would most...

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On Knowing What One Likes

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BY MOTH. T DO know what I like." Whether it was Mr. Max 1 Beerbohm or another who first discovered in this prase something at once ludicrous and contemptible I annot remember....

Art

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A Topical Motley of Graphic Art IN this age of ours, in which the wheels of the life-machine turn with ever-increasing speed, we get tired of things far more rapidly than our...

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To a Sky-writer

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THEY have reported that mean streets will be ennobled by The praise of soap and beer and pills, now to be thrown o high. Our meanest streets shall be henceforth no meaner th

Poetry

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The Wych-elm IN weariness of heart, Bitter with false labour, I put the world apart And seek an old neighbour. A century or more He has mused and murmured Over my door Of what...

The Kiss

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WE do not love : this kiss of ours Is but a careless, chance embrace— As though two individual flowers, Near neighbours in an upland place, Should by some infant tempest find...

THE INDEX TO VOLUME 148 OF THE " SPECTATOR IS

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Now the factories have supplied some of these needs with

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an article that is much cheaper, much easier to get, and in many cases good enough for its purpose. With certain tools and domestic apparatus the product of the factory is even...

Country Life

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Tile CRAFTSMAN'S PLACE. Some new light on the meaning and philosophy of village cra fts was thrown on my ignorance last week by a succession of talks with some western...

A craftsman who excels in the pride of the old

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Guild and assesses his work (which is chiefly the making of strong, semi-spherical baskets of withy, oak, or cane) in exact accord with the worth of the material and the sum of...

BEECH MAST OIL.

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A suggestion reaches me from an observant traveller that among the many native foods that we waste by refusing to use is the oil of the beech nut. In Switzerland, where perhaps...

The latest craft to be definitely taken in hand in

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the West is the plaiting of morass grass, a material almost peculiar to Anglesey. This tall tough grass, growing in else uncultivated places, is harvested in good quantity in...

An obvious demand for craftsmen's work exists and will

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probably increase among those who buy gifts ; for gifts, at certain times and occasions, are but half-gifts if they are not individual and good of their kind. I wonder whether...

The most successful of organizers of craftsmen in the West

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holds tbitt nothing has so hampered success as the humility of the craftsmen. So urban and standardized has our com- munity become that the native rural artist must apologize...

SHEEP AND FOXES.

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A strange story of a fox is told me by the chance observer of the grim incident. A young lamb from a considerable flock strayed rather nearer than the rest to the edge of a...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspondent Mr. Robbins,

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in his article on spending v. saving as a cure for the present depression, shows a lack of realization of the fact that the whole problem hinges upon the factor known as "...

Letters to the Editor

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[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitable length is that of one of our " News of the Week " paragraphs.—Ed....

THE CONFLICT WITH IRELAND [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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SIR,—May I be allowed to express my concurrence with the major premise of your article on Ireland? That major premise, as I understand it, asserts that whilst Mr. de Valera has...

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BANK CHARGES

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have read Mr. Kiddy's explanation of why I pay five per cent. on my overdraft as a minimum with no limit as to the maximum, having...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Sin,—With your permission I venture to disagree with you about the wisdom of writing your article on the Free State Question, and also of some of your articles about India. As...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In its attitude towards

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the Irish Free State, the Govern- ment is showing too much of the spirit that lost us the North American colonies. I do not know what success may attend the efforts of the Irish...

OLD THAMES

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Is not the reason that the Thames is not used for traffic that the distance from place to place is much longer, that the landing piers...

CONVERSION AND THE COMMON MAN

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The holder of War Loan will be interested in Mr. a Hobson's article in your issue of July 9th, but if he looks for help in making his...

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BOMBAY RIOTS AND THEIR LESSONS [To the Editor of the

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SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It does not appear to me to be a very edifying spectacle that the British Press at the present moment should make capital out of the Hindu-Moslem riot in Bombay...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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SIR,—I have read the Spectator regularly for a great many years and have been accustomed to look upon its articles as models of correct English. The Spectator has great...

INFLATION [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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SIR,—The letter from the Marquess of Tavistock, in which he briefly outlines two methods of putting into distribution additional money, is very interesting, but the plain man...

THE OLD BAILEY AND THE PRESS [To the Editor of

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the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—What a pity you are so " superior." I am sure you lose a great deal of what might be useful influence by your " superiority." Are Yo-Yo, Golders Green, ice...

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THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The point of main importance in the matter of the Royal Supremacy is, of course, the sense in which the Sovereign was or is the " Head of...

• THE REAL GEORGE ELIOT [To the ' Editor of the

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SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have red Mr. Richard Church's review of the Romieus' Life of George Eliot. Mr. Church, like the French authors, has given an imaginative interpretation of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Sut,—It is interesting that Mr. Matthews should have drawn attention to the fact that I connected George Eliot with Nottingham, the birth-place of John Chapman. This slip was...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] ..

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SIR,—As a constant reader of your paper for certainly not l es s than fifty years—perhaps you will allow me to thank you for your article " The Old Bailey and the Press." It is...

THE LIFE OF GEORGE ELIOT [To the Editor of the

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SPECTATOR.] Sia,—In view of to-day's records (or those of 1854 for that matter) of our aristocracy in regard to adultery and divorce it is strange to fwd Mrs. Mary M. Adamson...

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A SUPERFLUOUS HYPHEN

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I mention a small point in connexion with the review of my book, The Offing, which you were good enough to give me in your issue of...

HIGHER BUILDINGS

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[To the . Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In the " News of the Week " of July 23rd, under the heading of " Higher Buildings," you state " that the average London Street is too...

THE PLAIN MAN'S LEONARDO

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It was delightful to find that Mr. Philip Henderson, in reviewing my book about Leonardo, accepted the sug- gestion which it contains that...

A Hundred Years Ago

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THE " SPECTATOR," JULY 28TH, 1832. A meeting was held at the Rainbow Tavern on Tuesday, at which Mr. C. Calvert presided, to consider upon the best means of dispelling the...

POINTS FROM LETTERS

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THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS HELP SOCIETY. I would be grateful if you would allow me to call the attention of your readers to the work that is - successfully being carried on by...

AN INTERNATIONAL FORCE

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In your issue of July 16th, Capt. W. A. Powell writes to advocate the formation of an " internationally organized protective force "...

THE ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—There is one aspect of the spoliation of the countryside which has been left unmentioned by your correspondents, namely the wholesale...

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Caricaturing the World

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Pages Glorleuses. By Derso and Kelen. (Kelen, Geneva. 25 frs.) WHATEVER may be said of the Great War, it made a better world for caricaturists. In the old days it was impossible...

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Empire and Trade

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ONE of the troubles of democracy and one of the temptations of the politician is a tendency to rest content with abstract phrases. Of current ideas about Imperial policy that is...

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The Virgin Queen

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Queen Elizabeth. By Mona Wilson. (Peter Davies. 5s.) MERELY a simple account of Queen Elizabeth and her reign. Miss Wilson just sat down and wrote out the obvious things about...

THE Indian Police has the unenviable experience of being the

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recipient alternately of ignorant abuse and defamation and of ignorant and fulsome eulogy. For a long time we have waited for just such an objective study as Mr. Curry has now...

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Adventures in Four Continents

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Regiment Reichstag. Kurt Lamprecht. Translated by Basil Creighton. (Constable. 7s. 6d.) HERE are the stories of four adventurous men—a German, an F.nglishman, an American and...

Two American Extremes

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AFTER an interval devoted to the frankest kind of autobio- graphy the author of An American Tragedy turns to social criticism by the method of railing accusation. There are no...

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Paul Verlaine

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Poet under Saturn : The Tragedy of Verlaine. By Marcel Coulon. Translated with an introduction by Edgell Rickword. (Humphrey Tonimin. 10s. 6d.) THE less intelligent of...

Quattro Cento

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Mn. SroxEs' proud sub-title to this book, " A Different Conception of the Italian Renaissance," is in part justified. There is a certain novelty in his attitude to the sculpture...

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Women and Wagner

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Da. KAPP has set out to demonstrate the interdependence of Wagner's musical output and his eroticism. The result is a fascinating book which even those who may dissent from...

What is Beauty ?

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HERE is a book which does almost perfectly what it sets out to do ; in answering his question the author takes the trouble to be brief, yet the result is mostly neither too thin...

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Fiction

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BY L. A. G. Smaxn. 7s. 6d.) 7s. 6d.) All for the Love of a Lady. By Dion Clayton Calthrop. (Chapman and Hall. 7s. 6d.) When the Wicked Man. By Ford Madox Ford. (Cape. 7s. 6d.)...

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NOTTINGHAMSHIRE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY By J. W. Chambers The

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story of English economic history has been much im- peded by writers who ventured to draw general conclusions from scattered facts relating to different districts. Dr. J. D....

THESE MODERNS : SOME PARISIAN CLOSE-UPS By F. Ribadeau Dumas

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Since this collection of sketches and " pen-portraits " comes with an introduction from no less a writer than Miss Dorothy Richardson, we must do our best to find in it the...

Gramophone Notes

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BEETHOVEN'S " Emperor " Concerto (Concerto No. 5 in E Flat Major, Op. 73) is one of those rare examples of musical excellence which have found favour with highbrow and low- brow...

SOME QUARTERLIES The Criterion (Edited by T. S. Eliot, 7s.

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fkl.) maintains its supremacy among literary periodicals. To the July number, Mr. Ezra Pound contributes an essay on the late Harold Monro which is a refreshing change from the...

Current Literature

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THE BRITISH WAY IN WARFARE By Captain Liddell Hart In military matters Captain Liddell Hart is the brilliant heretic who would dethrone Clausewitz and Foch and revert to...

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Finance—Public & Private

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Debt Conversion and the Outlook TN many respects the current year, of which rather more than one half has now passed, has been an extraordinarily eventful one and no event,...

Travel

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A Holiday on a Mediaeval Island THERE are still places, even in Europe, of which it cannot be said that " the world is too much with us." Such a one is Visby, capital city of...

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CABLES AND WIRELESS.

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At the recent meeting of Cables and Wireless, the Governor, Mr. J. C. Denison-Pender, had to refer to the unfavourable state of trade as reflected in the Company's returns for...

BANKING IN SOUTH AFRICA.

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The latest accounts of the Standard Bank of South Africa furnish a striking example of the manner in which a balance- sheet can be affected by abnormal exchange conditions, for...

Financial Notes

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INVESTMENT STOCKS FIRM. THE favourable progress of the Conversion Loan, Senator Borah's statement in the United States with regard to Inter- national Debts, the settlement of...

ENGLISH SEWING COTTON.

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The latest Report of the English Sewing Cotton Company for the year ending March 31st last is a thoroughly good one. Last year it will be remembered that to pay the dividend of...