4 SEPTEMBER 1926

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Good though the opportunity is for a settlement with the

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freshly promised help of the Government, we must admit that the conditions are not by any means favourable for the drafting of a sensible policy by the miners. The Federation is...

NEWS OF THE WEEK

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M R. CHURCHILL'S speech about the coal dispute in the House Of Commons on Tuesday was in a new key. It might have been spoken by the Prime Minister. It was forthcoming and...

the officials of the Miners' Federation met the Minister of

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Labour and the Secretary for Mines in London. The miners had specially asked for this meeting and Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland had come hurriedly from Scotland and Colonel Lane Fox...

Mr. Churchill pointed out to the miners that the coal

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stoppage, though it had had most serious results, had not held up the life and industries of the country to anything like the extent that might have been anticipated. In these...

The immediate result of the meeting on Thursday, August 26th,

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was that Mr. Smith said "I will fight a bit yet," but Mr. Cook issued a statement the next day to the effect that he was convinced that at least "some Ministers" wanted "the...

On Monday the Executive of the Miners' Federation met in

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London, but nothing was decided except that the delegates' coact:nice must bear the responsibility, which is too much for the Executive. It is said that a majority of the...

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Mr. Hamilton Fyfe, who has retired from the editorship of

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the Daily Herald, published on Monday, the day before his departure, an article entitled "Nothing but the Truth," on which he is to be congratulated. He pointed out that the...

Nevertheless Mr. Churchill hoped that Thursday would produce what was

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required. He certainly said a helpful and important thing when he stated the opinion of the Government that the question of national or district agreements . would "never be...

Any nation is re-eligible in any case, and the mere

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label " re-eligible " would do nothing to ensure re-election. What, then, does M. Fromageot's proposal mean ? Frankly we can discover in it no meaning of practical value. A...

The claim of Spain to a Protectorate at Tangier seems

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to be fading away. French coldness dealt it a blow from which it could hardly recover, but the British reply has probably finished it. Great Britain_ has said that she is quite...

In the House of Commons on Tuesday the debate was

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opened by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, who called upon the Government to summon a conference on the coal dis- pute with "an open agenda." Mr. Lloyd George supported Mr. Ramsay...

The signs are good for the entry - of Germany as

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a permanent member of the League Council. Great Britain has held, apparently with success, to the view that the number of permanent seats in the Council should not - bOacreased....

The latest news from China is disturbing and as usual

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perplexing. There has been a marked advance of the Cantonese Red forces northwards into the Yangtze valley.. Yochow, a large city in the Hunan province. has fallen, and it is...

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We regret to record the death of Dr. J. G.

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Adami, who has been Vice-Chancellor of Liverpool University since 1919. He did admirable administrative and other work there. He was a pathologist of great .eminence in his...

The wretched so-called Central Government in Peking is at its

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wits' end for money with which to exist, but Sir Francis Aglen has not failed to do his obvious duty of refusing to allow the Customs to be used as security for any new loans to...

There has been some disagreeable rioting at Colmar in Alsace.

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How much of this was directly due to the Heimatbund we cannot say. We regret the trouble, but we cannot feel surprised. We publish elsewhere an article by Sir Robert Donald, who...

We have an interesting and, as we venture to think,

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a very pleasing announcement to make to our readers. With our issue dated September 18th, and with the six following issues, we shall publish a Supplement containing a...

On Monday Herr Wierkotter swam the Channel in nearly two

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hours less than Miss Ederle's " record " time. Three days before Herr Wierkotter's performance, Mrs. Corson, an American, had also swum across. One fancies that experience has...

It was thought up to the last moment that Javid

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Bey might be saved. He was never ruthless and unscrupulous in the same degree as his colleagues, and he was undoubtedly a man of ability in finance. At the trial he delivered a...

• On Thursday, August 26th, the Turkish Tribunal Of Independence

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condemned to death for a conspiracy against the life of the President of the Turkish Republic four of the surviving leaders of the Committee of Union and Progress. These were...

Bank Rate, 5 per cent., changed from 4 per cent.

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on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101* ; on Wednesday week 101/i r ; a year ago 101*. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 85k; on Wednesday...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY

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THE SPIRIT OF THE LEAGUE I T is essential that Germany should come into the League of Nations within the next few days as a permanent member of the Council. Too long the League...

THE OBSOLETE STRIKE

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A FTER the humiliating experiences we have had in the coal dispute we are at least entitled to hope that such hurricanes of ill wind will blow some good to somebody. We have no...

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THE MALAISE OF MADAME ALSACE

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BY SIR ROBERT DONALD, G.B.E. M ADAME ALSACE is going through another crisis in her domestic affairs—suffering from a sort of domestic complex. She is not satisfied with things...

For classified professional, educational, and trading announce- ments, see pages

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362-363.

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B ERNARD ATKINSON is of the younger school of headmasters. He

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is a layman with advanced views about Christ, and a Christian with advanced views about mankind. The social question is day and night companicn of his thoughts and his favourite...

I)OSTOYEVSKI ON DRAMATIZED NOVELS

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A DRAMATIZED version of Dostoyevski's The Idiot has just been produced at the Barnes Theatre.* By a curious coincidence, a Russian newspaper edited abroad has just published a...

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Have you anything to sell ? Readers have an unusually

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good opportunity of selling what they havelo offer—services, the work of their brain or their hands, the small possessions for which they no longer have any use, the products of...

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MR. WELLS LOOKS OUT OF HIS WINDOW

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A N author who can make his public pay seven-and- sixpence three times over, at intervals of a month, for one full-length book, is certainly not without financial acumen. But...

GIRAFFES

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T HE giraffe is now found only in Africa, from North Bechuanaland and the Kalahari Desert to Kordofan the Sudan, the Congo, Nigeria. Formerly, however, it had a much wider range...

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SPECTABILIA

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A FEw weeks ago I referred to the litter problem and the various steps which should be taken continuously to impress on the mind of the man in the street the duty of each...

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THE THEATRE

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DOSTOYEVSKY DRAMATIZED NOTHING, on first thoughts, could seem less promising than an attempt to adapt Dostoyevsky's enormous novel, The Idiot, to the stage. Will they try next,...

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THE DOLMETSCH FESTIVAL

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MR. ARNOLD Dotstrrscu has already secured his rightful place in the history of music. His life-long zeal and undying faith, however, have only lately begun to take effect. Now...

MUSIC THE SALZBURG MUSICAL FESTIVAL

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'THE tempo of modern life has increased so rapidly during the last ten years that it seems as though the modern man must look for his music more and more to the annual...

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CORRESPONDENCE

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A LETTER FROM TANGIER [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Though much space has been devoted in the daily Press to the statement of French, Italian, and Spanish views on...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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A BREWER'S SCHEME OF TEMPERANCE REFORM -• [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] believe that moat of the advantages of the Carlisle nil other schemes, as well as nationalization of...

AMERICAN ' AND BRITISH HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT [To the Editor of

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the SPECTATOR.] " Parson's Wife "informed you recently that she has an income of eleven hundred pounds, with free rent. That is an 'excellent income in any country at any time....

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THE CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUE IN CANADA

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sat,—As an attentive reader of the Spectator, your forceful expositions on the free status of the self-governing Dominions have always been a...

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WHO WROTE THE FOURTH GOSPEL?

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —In enunciating his ingenious and fascinating theory, has not Mr. Fleming ignored the unnamed or other disciple of ch. i. ? Is it...

THE OXFORD TOWN-PLANNING SCHEME [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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SIR,—May I hope that among your many subjects of interest You will not lose sight of the affairs of the City and University of Oxford ? As a neighbouring landowner remarks :...

MR. HAROLD RUSSELL [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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SIR,—The sudden and untimely death of Mr. Harold Russell will cast a shadow over a wide circle of friends. He was an outstanding man—a man whose place in many lives it will be...

THE MORRIS MOTOR WORKS AT COWLEY [To the Editor of

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the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—There is another side to the interesting picture drawn by your contributor of the Morris motor works and their founder. The fair City of Oxford is a...

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HOW TO CLEAN OUR SKIES.

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Many people who ardently desire pure air and a smokeless sky feel that the associations for the promotion of those conditions are mistaken...

POETRY

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DEATH AND CHANGE THE farmer with sickle cuts down the bright corn To raise food for the people. And hills are disrupted and grievously torn For bells in the steeple. Chill...

ELIOT OF HARVARD

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sui,—There is one incident in Dr. Eliot's career _which ought to be recalled in England while his name is in the public mind. He was a staunch...

A KNOCK-OUT COMPETITION AT CRICKET

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Towards the end of your leader on "the fourth stump in cricket," you say : "but all this is mere theorizing." Something very similar to...

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A MOUSE FROM THE MOUNTAIN AND OTHER FICTION

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The World of William Clissold. By H. G.Wells. (Bean. 78.6d.) THE publication of the first volume of Mr. Wells' new work has been awaited with unusual expectation—with a kindly,...

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Mr. Vowles' The Web of Finance, mentioned in this column

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last week, is obtainable from Mr. John Bellows, Gloucester , is. 2d. post free.

MARTHA AND MARY. By J. Anker Larsen. Trans- lated from

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the Danish by Arthur G. Chater. (Knopf. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Larsen, the author of this unusual and extremely beautiful novel, is a novelist of the first order, and a writer of...

Sir Frederick Maurice's new book, Governments and War (Heinemann, 8s.

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6d.) will be reviewed in a later issue. It is an important military work, dealing first with the methods of Lincoln in conducting the American Civil War, and then with our...

We are glad to see that Mr. Claud Worth's Yacht

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Cruising (J. D. Potter, 21s. net) has peached a third edition, for it is a success thoroughly deserved. The chapter on "The Manage- ment of Yachts in Bad Weather" has become...

The September number of St. Martin's Review (6d. monthly, Chandos

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Street, W.C. 2) is devoted entirely to St. Francis, and has an article in it by Miss Underhill which alone would make it a number to buy and keep. The " nature mysticism" of St....

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS

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, The latest volume of the " Said " series (The Toys of Peace By H. H. Munro, John Lane, 3s. 6d.) is not quite as funny as its predecessors, but the delicious irony and deft...

THE CASUARINA TREE. By W. S. Maugham. (Heine- mann. 7s.

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6d. net.)—These eight stories by Mr. Somerset Maugham all dwell upon English people living in the Malay Peninsula. Each is at once grimly dramatic and yet packed with clear...

Our contemporary, Country Life, is publishing weekly instalments of a

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shooting novel by Mr. Cutliffe-Hyne which i3 delightful reading. Good sporting novels are 'rare': this looks as if it would be one. In the same number (August 28th) there are...

Among recent reference books received, The English Catalogue of Books

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(56 Whitcombe Street, W. 2) gives all the books issued in the United Kingdom between 1921 and 1925, It is, of course, invaluable to librarians and a mine of informs. tion to all...

A new publication is Quebec (6d. monthly from 88 Kingsway),

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which is devoted to the interests of that Province, in Great Britain. There are many interesting features—for instance, a column about a Mr. Smith who admitted to making 119,000...

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A QUIDE-BOOK FOR THE MILKY WAY

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AUTUMN is approaching. To star-worshippers it is what the spring of the year is to botanists and gardeners. We shall soon see the mighty hunter Orion stride up out of the south-...

We do not demand literary merit in the entries for

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this com- petition. We should like them to be simple and straight- forward, and we ask no more. Readers will differ, we feel sure, in their conception of the highest qualities...

RULES FOR COMPETITORS.

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1. All entries must be received on or before Friday, Sept. 10th. 2. Competitors may send in as many entries as they wish, but each entry must be accompanied by one of the...

BOOKS RECOMMENDED

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Misczwissous.-Quevedo. By Charles Duff. (Routledge. 12s. 6d.)-Marvels of Modern Mechanics. By Harold T. Wilkins. (T. Fisher Unwin. 10s. 6d.) -The Queen of Roumania's Fairy Book....

THE . COMPETITION "Everyone who thinks and feels is apt at

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times to fall into the state of mind of the Psalmist, and believe that ' All the earth is full of darkness and cruel habitations.' Therefore I should like to see the result of...

NEXT WEEK

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Lord Grey's Fallodon Papers and Dean Inge's England reviewed by Sir William Beach-Thomas. Also reviews of -George IV by Shane Leslie, To-day and To-morrow by Henry Ford, and...

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THE WORLD IN DANGER

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WE know the argument. Perhaps we know its force. Empires and civilizations have died in the past. Is there anything unique in Our own civilization to save it from following all...

A GREAT PAGAN

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Conversations with Anatole France. By Nicolas Segur. Bodley Head. 7s. 6d.) SOMETIMES it is the wiser course to seek no further acquaintance with authors than through their...

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INTERPRETATIONS OF CIIRISTIANITY

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TEE output of theology is perennial : and, though a good deal of it is merely repetitive or ephemeral, author or subject- matter makes certain books stand out from their...

THE COLOUR PROBLEM IN AFRICA

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The South Africans. By Sarah Gertrude Millen. (Constable. 7s. 6d.) Souni AFRICA, and therefore Great Britain and the whole British Empire, is deeply concerned with the...

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COLLECTANEA

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THE Bodley Head, for six shillings, gives us a reprint of the curious sixteenth-century poetical collection of love-poems entitled Willobie His Avisa, which puipoits to be "for...

FAMOUS TRIALS

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Tins is an attractive book, for every one of us likes a good trial, although people are often ashamed to admit it. Mr. Horace Wyndham has selected here fourteen causes celebres...

BOOKS IN BRIEFEST

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Tim late Sir Rickman Godlee's A Village on the Thames (Allen, is: 6d.) is a gem. Reading this book is ince taking a country ramble with a friend (emphatically with a friend) who...

Diaecr subscribers who are changing their addresses are asked to

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notify the Manager of the SPECTATOR BEFORE MIDDAY ON MONDAY OF EACH NVE.EIE. The previous address to. which the paper has been sent should be quoted in each ease.

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FINANCE-PUBLIC AND PRIVATE

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THE EXCHEQUER AND THE COAL -CRISIS BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. In the course- of the discussion last month between member i of the Government and the miners and officials Mr. Winston...

MOTORING NOTES

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THE 1927 DAIMLER CAR I dive just returned from a delightful week's tour in a Daimler car, and during this time approximately a thousand miles were covered. An excellent...

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NEWSPAPER PROFIl'S.

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Not the least important feature of the various sections of the Harmsworth Press has been the remarkable ability dis- played throughout on the business side. At the recent annual...

FINANCIAL NOTES

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CONTINUED OPTIMISM. Wrrri the coal crisis manifestly at a critical stage it is not surprising that business on the Stock Markets should have been restricted during the past...

REVIVAL IN OIL SHARES.

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It is always difficult—it might be said impossible--to dis- cern those directions in which speculative activity in markets is most likely to break out. At the present moment,...

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BANKS AND THE PUBLIC.

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I must congratulate Lloyds Bank upon having published a really attractive brochure explaining to the man in the street the advantages of a banking account, and the many useful...