5 APRIL 1924

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Mr. Bevin, on Sunday, addressed his men at a big

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meeting at Hammersmith and strongly urged. acceptance. On Monday the men balloted and there was a 5,000 majority for acceptance (9,428 against 4,877). It was evident from the...

Mr. Wheatley was compelled to assume that the house owners

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can afford to be penalized. That as a general proposition is untrue. If further expense is to be borne on behalf of the unemployed, it must be borne by the community. If the...

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There is an impression that the Government " got home"

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in the Tram strike settlement by the shortest of short heads—and even so as much by luck as by skill. Certainly they struggled desperately to avoid the Tube and Railway strike...

The Times in a leading article on Tuesday emphasizes this

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point and criticizes employers' methods of nego- tiation as compared with those of the Unions :— " They, the employers, have not adequately prepared their side of the case. They...

But the final and comprehensive objection, which Mr. Asquith and

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Mr. Neville Chamberlain made with great force, is that it is entirely wrong to penalize one class—the house owners=---for the good of another class.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE Government have once more been brought into trouble by the hearty indiscretions of Mr. Wheatley. No one could have argued for the Rents Bill, which came up for second...

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A most unfortunate strike broke out on Monday amongst the

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builders at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley. It was an unofficial one, not supported by the Builders' Union. The strikers demanded 2d. an hour extra, their opportunity...

An interesting debate took place in the House of Commons

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on Tuesday, when Mr. Arthur Ponsonby, the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, introduced the " Treaty of Peace (Turkey) Bill." The Lausanne Treaty contained a clause which...

We wonder how different this is from Lord Ashfield's ideal.

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Certainly it is a long way from the system which will be set up by the Government's Traffic Bill. It cannot be over-emphasized that the London traffic problem is altogether...

It cannot be said that the crisis in the mining

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industry has ended. On the other hand, it is evident that there is no prospect of an immediate strike. The final offer of the owners, which has conceded more than half of what...

If this is really the case, and some recent events,

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more especially in the dock dispute, certainly lend colour to the statement, it is time that employers realized that it is essential for them to know as much of their business...

Many English people will have seen the news of the

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disastrous landslide at Amalfi with particular sorrow. Over a hundred people appear to have been killed, and the material damage is very great. Some of the most beautiful parts...

The Munich Treason Trials have ended tamely. Luden- dorff himself

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is acquitted of the accusation of high treason for his part in the Hitler " Putsch " in November, 1922. Hitler and his lieutenants are found guilty and sentenced to varying...

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Death has taken a heavy toll lately of our most

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dis- tinguished musicians, and we much regret to record the death of Sir Charles Stanford, following within a few days on the deaths of Sir Walter Parratt and Sir Frederick...

It is difficult to understand why anyone should object to

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such a policy, but Sir Samuel Hoare and Mr. Fisher seemed to do so. Really, of course, it is a procedure to which we have been tending for some time past, and it will be all to...

In Tuesday's Times Sir Reginald Blomfield wrote a letter defending

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the present plan of widening Waterloo Bridge as necessary and as by no means " vandalistic," since the present appearance would be, in the main, preserved. He states...

Meanwhile the disputants only make passing references to the new

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bridge which is proposed, and we take it is practically decided upon, at St. Paul's, although many of the best opinions consider it useless in that position. It is alleged, we...

Some American men of science have apparently decided to fire

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a rocket at the moon. The rocket will contain a group of charges, which will be fired auto- matically in succession at regular intervals so that the rocket will continually...

The New York correspondent of the Times stated, in Tuesday's

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paper, that the American Chemical Society had confirmed the importance of Dr. Walter Eddy's claim to have isolated vitamins. According to the Chemical Society's statement, the...

Could not the Government, which has had such con- siderable

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success with its Committees of Inquiry, set up a new one who would regard the problem of London bridges from the point of view of the community as a whole, both as national...

Bank Rate, 4 per cent., changed from 3 per cent.

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July 5, 1928 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 102ir ; Thursday week, 101} ; a year ago, 102*.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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M. POINCARE REVIVES. W E hope that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald is not deceiving himself. He has spoken very hopefully of the possibility of coming to a full agreement with France, and...

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THE INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

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T HE strike of London tramway and omnibus workers is at an end, after ten days of wholly unnecessary expense and of acute suffering on the part of the public. But we are faced...

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A CIVIC SENSE IN ENGLAND ? THE HYGIENE OF RECREATION.

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BY DR. C. W. SALEEBY. W E have attended to many aspects of industrial hygiene in this country. The young workers are protected against moving machinery, ventilation is...

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YOUTH AND POLITICS.

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BY REGINALD BERKELEY, M.P. O F the many illusions that mystify the student of politics, perhaps the most curious relates to the party system. The man at the breakfast-table,...

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THE DOLL'S HOUSE MANNER.

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N r i n is the fashion. It shows everywhere -I- n our tastes, our talk and our current literature. The grown-up public has shown an amazing interest in a doll's house. Artists...

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THE

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ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD . BY EVELYN WRENCH. T HEquestion of Canada's national status is one which crops up from time to time in the debate in the House of Parliament in Ottawa....

Sir Arthur Shipley, the chairman of the governing body of

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the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, has been contributing an interesting series of articles to the Times on his recent tour to the Caribbean Sea, and in recording his...

When the British and the Egyptian Government get together with

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the object of clearing away outstanding difficulties between the two countries, one of the most difficult problems which they will have to solve will be that of the Sudan, for...

If, for instance, a sugar planter with estates in Jamaica

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and in Antigua wishes to visit the latter island from the former, he can only do so by going via New York. The monotony of life in the tropics is a subject which Sir Arthur...

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But in view of the fact that the days of

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the present Administration at Washington are drawing to a close, it is hardly likely that the matter will be left here, and the Washington Star states that the Democratic Party...

Mr. Sastri made a forceful speech at Delhi recently recommending

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the Government to take effective steps to prevent the South African Government from imposing. restrictions on Indians. The Times Delhi correspondent informs us that although Mr....

The claim of the Philippines to independence has received a

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temporary check as a result of President Coolidge's note to the chairman of the Philippine Independence Mission now in Washington, and as the Literary Digest observes, it is...

THE THEATRE.

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" SAINT JOAN " AT THE NEW THEATRE. ONCE upon a time history was all very well. Irrational things such as blood feuds, crusades, or persecutions for witchcraft were perfectly...

On a number of occasions I discussed with the late

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Lord Grey a subject very dear to his heart—that of facilitating the admission of Canadians, Australians, South Africans and other citizens of the Dominions into our diplomatic...

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MUSIC FOR THE MASSES.

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THE British Broadcasting Company began its career by misestimating the mentality of its audiences. The majority of people in England are fond of music, but theirs is an undis-...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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UNIVERSAL "ALL-IN " INSURANCE. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—The scheme for Universal All-in Insurance dealt with so sympathetically in your columns must command the,...

BOOK COLLECTORS' NOTES.

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[This is the first of a series of monthly articles intended to interest book collectors and having special reference to the work of the First Edition Club.] THE First Edition...

ART.

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THE BURRELL COLLECTION : NATIONAL GALLERY, MILLBANK. THE larger part of the Burrell Collection has been on loan for some years to the National Gallery, Edinburgh. The whole of...

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A CIVIC SENSE IN ENGLAND ?

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Like all your readers who have had opportunity of watching the recurring ebb and flow Of civic enthusiasm, I read with interest the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, —The fact that

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insurance (either subsidized by the State or not) and State relief may be alternative ways of dealing with the same matters, appears to have caused some who are discussing the "...

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ASYLUM REFORM.

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Amid the outcry for reform of the lunacy laws, the suggestion is made that if only the English laws could be modelled on those of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sni s —My great regard for

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Dr. Rayner, with whom it has been my privilege to be associated in work for the relief of nerve- strained soldiers, makes me diffident in replying to his letter in the Spectator...

STRIKE TYRANNY.

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — In the leading notes of your issue of March 29th you say what has wanted saying for a long time, viz., " It is not tolerable that a...

BYRON'S CHARACTER.

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — May I be allowed to thank your correspondent in your issue of March 22nd for her defence of Byron against the petty and ill-natured...

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"RECREATIONS OF LONDON."

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—As a subscriber to the Spectator I wonder what prompts your choice of plays, films, &c., to mention in...

THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE RANKER OFFICERS.

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With reference to the comments in the Spectator of March 22nd, in which you referred to the Prime Minister's statement that he had been...

THE ETHICS OF BIRTH CONTROL.

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of March 22nd a correspondent, who claims for himself the title of " Homo Sapiens," says that a stigma will continue to be...

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CRUELTY IN SPORT.

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[TO the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In an article on this subject published in your issue of the 29th ult., the writer discourses upon " the agonies of the damned " through...

POETRY.

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UNICORN MAD. WET-armed, sleet-footed, The mad witty gales Ruin wildly up the hills, Rocket up the dales : In their slippery arms Bushels of hail They do their daft seeding Over...

THE CONSTITUTIONAL PARTY..

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] 51 . 14—What's in a name ? Much assuredly, as the potency of certain shibboleths and catchwords in recent years attests. In the present...

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LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

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TO the *pertain FOR TILE No. 49971 WEEK ENDING SATURDAY , APRIL 5, 1924. [ REGISTERED FR ). GRATIS. • • TRANSMISSION ABR O OAD.

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Littrarp Ouppinurnt.

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LONDON : APRIL 5th, 1924.

W. H. HUDSON.

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Far Away and Long Ago. Idle Days in Patagonia. A Traveller in Little Things. Hampshire Days. Nature in Downland. The Land's End. The Book of a Naturalist. Moot in England. Birds...

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THE WORLD'S AFFAIRS.

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A Short History of International Intercourse. By C. Deslisle Burns. (George Allen and Unwin. 5s.) The Lordship of the World. By C. J. O'Donnell. (Cecil Palmer. 5s.) Tan War and...

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THE SQUARE ROOT OF MINUS ONE.

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Three Plays. By Anatoli Vasilievich Lunacharski. (Rout- ledge. 7s. .6d.) Gas. By Georg Kaiser. (Chapman and Dodd. 3s. 6d.) Four Short Plays. " British Drama League " Series....

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ENGLISH PRINTING.

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English Printers' Ornaments. By Henry R. Plomer. (Grafton and Co., Coptic House, Coptic Street, Bloomsbury. £2 2s. net. ) THE craft of printing to-day, and not merely in this...

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A ROYAL CHRONICLER.

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MADAME was Elizabeth-Charlotte of Bavaria, Princess Palatine, Duchess of Orleans, wife of Philippe, the only brother of Louis the Fourteenth. At the time of her marriage she was...

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THE IMPORTANCE OF HISTORY.

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History and its Place in Education. By J. J. Findlay. (Uni- versity of London Press. 3s. 6d. net.) PROFESSOR FINDLAY has written a small book, but it is on one of the most...

A FASCINATING FABLE.

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The Forest Giant. By Adrian le Corbeau. Translated by J. H. Ross. (Jonathan Cape. 6s. net.) IT was Wordsworth's faith that " every flower enjoys the air it breathes." Shelley...

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CAPE TO CAIRO RAILWAY.

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It is more than fifty years since the idea of a continuous line of railway from north to south of the African continent—a distance of more than 5,000 miles in a straight...

THE CHANGING COUNTRYSIDE.

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IN these records of the countryside a reader often feels a sad sense of the past. It is not the usual sweet melancholy of retrospection. That is personal, and the cause of some...

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London : Printed by W. 8n.titiuT Anfs, Ism., 98 &

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99 Fetter Lane, B.C. 4; and published by Thomas &manna for the " spzernTos" (Limited), at their Mee, No. 13 York Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C. 2, Saturday, April 5th, 1924,

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BOOKS.

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THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. Ma. A. C. BENSON has followed an unusual plan in his Memories and Friends (Murray) ; he has chosen to describe men of whom he had the most vivid and amusing...

A BOOK OF THE MOMENT.

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LOUIS BOTHA. A.?.r official life of General Botha, Lord Buxton tells us, is in preparation ; his own book is not intended as a biography,. but as a personal study, a tribute to...

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A SONG TO DAVID.

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A Song to David, with other poems. By Christopher Smart. Edited by Edmund Blunden. (Cobden Sanderson. 6s. net.) CHRISTOPHER SMART has long been a problem to theorists. He was...

MAURICE HEWLETT.

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Last Essays of Maurice Hewlett. (Heinemann. 8s. 6d.) THE death of Maurice Hewlett last year deprived us of a novelist who had outlived part of his early popularity, a poet who...

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FICTION.

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A RUSSIAN BARCHESTER. THE stories in The Sentry showed that Nikolai Lyeskov could achieve considerable effects by the conjunction of brevity and horror. The Cathedral Folk is...

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OTHER NOVELS.—The Pentagram. By Huntly Robert- son. (Grant Richards. 7s.

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6d. net.)—A close and intelligent study of a modern adolescent placed in difficult circumstances. The opening of the story is very successful ; but the interest is not...

THE GIRL FROM HOLLYWOOD. By Edgar Rice Burroughs. (Methuen. 7s.

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6d. net.) Mr. Burroughs, having exhausted the apes and the Martians, has now brought his pen to bear on one of the most interesting and sordid sections of mere humanity. The...

DRINK IN 1914-1922. A Lesson in Control. By Arthur Shadwell,

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M.D. (Longman. 10s. 6d. net.) Dr. Shadwell sets out luminously and briefly a history of the liquor trade in Great Britain from the beginnings of control by the State until the...

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. By W. G. Shotwell. 2

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vols. (London : Lotigmans and Co. 36s. net.) THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. By W. G. Shotwell. 2 vols. (London : Lotigmans and Co. 36s. net.) Those who were drawn by the War and by...

In this book Mr. H. G. Wells has supplemented the

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official life of Sanderson of Oundle, one of the most remarkable men of our day, a man whose sudden death in the aspiring youth of his intellect, though not of his body, cut him...

SHORTER NOTICES.

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THE MIND IN THE MAKING. By James Harvey Robinson. With an Introduction by H. G. Wells. (Jonathan Cape. 6s. net.) The signs are multiplying that thinking men of the middle...

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FINANCE-PUBLIC & PRIVATE.

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[BY OUR CITY EDITOR.] CHEERFUL MARKETS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Another great strike has come and gone, and once again we find the Stock Exchange jubilating...

FINANCIAL NOTES.

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Apart altogether from any effect produced by the conclusion of the strike, there is no doubt that gilt-edged securities have been stimulated, and justly stimulated, by the...

HAZLITT.

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We have received from the First Edition Club a very charm- ing example of the kind of reprints which is to be a feature of the new club. Tlhs reprint is of an unpublished...