6 AUGUST 1927

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These - proposals seem to be very much the same

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in effect as those already agreed upon by the Japanese and our own delegates. The vessels now proposed to be-retained between 6,000 and 10,000 tons introduce a new ;class, and...

News of the Week

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A PLENARY session of the Naval Limitation Confer- ence is to be held on Thdrsday, too late for us to be able to report the result.. Ilia leading article we try to deal with the...

We cannot see much value in Mr. Lloyd George's suggestion

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to the Liberal Summer School at Cambridge, that he " would impose no limit to an understanding " with the United States so long as there is an under- standing. If this means...

Mr. Coolidge has issued a bald "statement that he "

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does not choose to run for President " again. How we should relate this . decision to the Geneva Conference we do not know.. We have not felt -called upon to speculate on the...

EDITORIAL AND Pusiisimia- "OFFICES : 13 York Street, Covent Garden,

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• It is some time since we expressed . any._ sympathy,

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which we have not ceased to feel, with the sufferers .. throUgh the Mississippi floods' and the people generally of the' United States, who all share in some degree in that...

On the second reading of the Consolidated Fund Bill, a

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speech by Mr. Charles Trevelyan drew from the Secretary • of State for- Foreign Affairs. statements on Russian and Chinese relations, and upon the Naval Limitation . Conference....

On Thursday, July 28th, the Upper House agreed to the

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Archbishop of Canterbury's motion to present the Indian Church measure for the Royal Assent. The historic Church in India with its half a million of Indian members thus takes an...

In China the Nanking Government alone flourishes financially, and it

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has a great advantage over others - so long as it can thrive on illegal • seizures of surtaxes, salt revenue, &c. While quite incalculable intrigues are being carried on by the...

• On Tuesday they reached Ottawa by train in brilliant

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• weather and had a magnificent reception. The Prime Minister of Canada welcomed the Prince of Wales and Mr. Baldwin as His Majesty's latest Privy Councillors for . Canada. The...

In the House of Commons on Thursday; July 28th, the

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Minister of Health announced the terms of reference- of a Royal Commis.Oon on London Squares. They are • shortly : To report' on those open 'spaces; how they are held and used ;...

The Austrian Parliament finished last week its debate on the

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disorders in Vienna, and on the whole the spirit . shown was satisfactory and promised peace and good will. Unfortunately, however, the Socialist City Council shows no signs of...

The Prince of Wales, Prince George, the Prime Minister and

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Mrs. Baldwin arrived at Quebec on Saturday after a satisfactory voyage in spite of threatened danger from icebergs. They were welcomed enthusiastically by all, and officially by...

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India is a later sufferer from floods, which have been

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very severe in the Bombay Presidency. The city of Baroda was for some days completely isolated, and Ahmedabad has been grievously damaged. There has been some loss of life and...

Bank Rate, 41 per cent., changed from 5 per cent.,

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on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101 1 9 6 . ; on Wednesday week 101f ; a year ago 101*. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 86i ; on...

We regret to record the death of that extraordinarily versatile

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man, Sir Hairy Johnston. He was an artist in water colours, a linguist and a really learned student of African languages ; an anthropologist, a botanist at home and in Africa ;...

The Miners' Federation continued its Conference at the end of

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last week. It discussed in private its relations with the Russian Miners' Union and the Communists, and we understand that it rejected decisively any closer co-operation with...

News of a graceful act in our political world leaked

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out in the Press, and as the principal actor, Lord Reading, has publicly stated the facts we feel that there is no impropriety now in our recording them. A number of friends of...

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Disarmament

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HE result of the plenary session of the Naval Limitation Conference at Geneva on Thursday will presumably reach our readers through the daily papers at the same time as the...

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Sixty Years a Dominion

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I T is pleasant to know that the Prince of Wales and Prince George, and the Prime Minister, are helping the Canadians to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of the Dominion, for it...

"Adopt, Adapt, and Improve"

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(A motto suggested by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, K.G., in a recent address to Business Men). I. — SEEKING FOR THE NORMAL. tA NE of the greatest fallacies of the age is the view...

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The End of the Session

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T HE political apathy, which has been so noticeable in the country of late, has been reflected in the listless attitude adopted by members of all parties in the House of Commons...

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Papworth

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S O longas we continue to make the preventable, man-made disease, tuberculosis, we must try /1/4-1 to help its victims. There should be no such disease, and therefore no...

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American English

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T HE average American speaks better English than the average Englishman," wrote a recent American correspondent of the Spectator. This is both true and not true. It is true, if...

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Oxford Gardens

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. AWNS of the richest green and soft velvet, grass shadowed by ancient trees that have lived a quiet life here for centuries." Oxford gardens to-day are world-famous, but how...

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Three Travellers in the Shetland Islands

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ri lHE ` Earl of Zetland ' waited with aristocratic calm to be loaded and dispatched. There is no fixed time for the departure of the boat which plies between Lerwick and the...

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Correspondence

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A LETTER FROM CHICAGO. [Our correspondent sends us this letter with the note that it " ` suggests a side of Chicago life less well known abroad than our vicious politics or our...

A LETTER FROM BAGHDAD.

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Baghdad to-day presents that admixture of East and West which is the common feature of twentieth-century Oriental cities. In this case...

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I would venture a prophecy regarding that great date, August

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12th. It is that more very young birds will be found on the moors than most sportsmen will remember. I have never known birds continue nesting so late in the year in the South ;...

The " Marketing Investigator " writes on the theme one

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paragraph that is almost literature. Most of our pigs are bought by a very small group of men, but what a vast, un- necessary, costly army serves their need ! " Over a thousand...

The absence of labourers in the most elemental and necessary.

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of all industries, within a small island where well over - a million persons are unemployed, is a collocation of facts that may well stagger the logician. The district where...

A PIG PROBLEM.

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. That old and difficult question, why Denmark should produce profitably for export what we often fail to produce profitably for home consumption, is better answered in an...

Country Life

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THE following advertisemcLt, which appears in a local paper in the Home Counties, liar; a certain historical value, and is singularly significant :— WINDRIDGE FARM, SALE OF...

A BLUE ROSE. A BLUE ROSE.

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After many years of endeavour a blue rose has been " created." It will not be procurable for two years or so, and it is being most carefully guarded. The few who have been...

Holiday makers saw many fields golden with wheat, white. with

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oats, and brown with barley. They saw a certain number (though harvest is late) patterned by stooks . into aisles and naves. They saw some good crops and some so pestered with...

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THE SLUM PROBLEM .

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—May I, supplement your timely and valuable article on '-.The Abolition of the Slums " by a few observations ? 11 gather that you rightly...

GENEVA

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—When business men seek to make an agreement with the representatives of a friendly firm, they do not begin by accus- ing them of...

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

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clearance, it may interest some of your readers to know that in Holland .grading of tenants, in the new housing schemes, has been tried quite successfully. As the tenant learns...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In a letter from

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Constantinople published in your issue of July 16th I notice that your correspondent writes The city itself is remarkably clean compared with what it was just after the War....

Letters to the Editor

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THE SLUMS AND "REORGANIZATION" OF THE DRINK TRAFFIC [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The subject of our City slums is prominent in the Spectator at present, and in every...

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A DESCRIPTION OF THACKERAY

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—My father, Matthew James Higgins, a well-known contributor to the Times in mid-Victorian days, under the nom de plume of Jacob Omnitun,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Not very long ago

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I came upon a tawny owl hanging head downward from a circular spring trap which had' been set in an open space in the midst of a wood. The trap was fixed upon the top of a large...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snt,—I have no defence

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for the stupid mistake in my, book on Trollope, to which Lady Lovelace makes , kind reference in your issue of July 23rd. Fortunately, however, the mistake was pointed out to me...

THE HORRORS OF THE STEEL TRAP

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] S.P.C.A. has for years offered prizes for a humane and efficient rabbit trap ; yet it has never been able to award a prize, nor to advertise...

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IRISH EX-SERVICE MEN

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The anniversary of Britain's declaration of war is an occasion upon which I feel I may confidently ask the public to give their support to...

LORD LISTER

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —The short, timely article in the Spectator of April 16th brings to my mind an experience which I offer to you as a modest contribution...

THE ANGLO-CHINESE PROBLEM

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—My attention has been drawn to a review in the Spectator of April 16th, 1927, where on page 697, under the heading " The Magazines,"...

THE REFERENDUM

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIII,—I am indeed surprised to see the Spectator advocating that political humbug, the Referendum. As a citizen of a country where the...

EX-SERVICEMEN BULB-GROWERS

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have heard that there is a colony of ex-Service men engaged in growing bulbs somewhere in the East of England, and should be grateful...

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VAN DE VELDE MEMORIAL

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It was decided at a recent meeting of the Society for Nautical Research to endeavour to raise funds in order to provide a memorial to the...

STENDHAL IN ENGLISH

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The reviewer of " Stendhal in English" says that our appreciation of him will depend very much on " whether his unique spirit is...

THE SOUTH AFRICAN FLAG

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In reference to your notes on South African politics, I should like to say that Jan van Riebeek could not have sailed under the present...

"THE IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT"

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Doubtless a number of readers of your issue of June 18th have already taken occasion to inform the reviewer of The Rise of American...

THE " SPECTATOR " IN ALBERTA

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,--One of the most distressing features of life in Western Canada (as also in the western States of the U.S.A.) to-day, seems to me, from...

ACCIDENTS AT CROSS-ROADS

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Is it not time that something was done to prevent the frequent ghastly motor accidents at cross-roads ? There scents to be a class of...

THE ART OF ATTAINING HIGH HEALTH

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The article by " C. A. E." on " The Art of Attaining High Health " is helpful and interesting ; especially so is it to one who, like...

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ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY [To the Editor- of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It

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may possibly interest your correspondents on this subject that wild birds and many wild animals will volun- tarily give up their natural freedom in order to enjoy man's...

A PROOF-READER'S LETTER [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Sia,—To criticize a critic who is not only a proof-reader but the son of a proof-reader is a risky thing to do ; and I would not attempt to do it were he not one of the...

SPARE THE OTTER [To the Editor of the SpEcraTon.] -Sin, . ---With

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respect to the otter's fish-eating habits, it has been stated that for the most part it feeds on the coarser kinds of _fish and also on . other denizens of the streams which,...

Poetry

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The Singers SING, crickets, in the dusk, About my caravan, Sing loudly if you must, Sweet if you can. Sing from that sandy soil Where briers grow, To hide your little homes...

THE NIGHTINGALE IN IRELAND [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Sin,—May I answer a letter from " W. W." which appeared in a recent issue of the Spectator with reference to a verse or two quoted from my poem " The Exile " in a very kind...

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What a thousand pities it is that P. T. Barnum

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is no more, for what an advertisement that great master of reclame has missed in the two portly volumes of Autobiography (Knopf, 42s.) which Mr. Bryan edits, but which, however,...

Dr. Saleeby tells in Sunlight," a journal of Light and

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Truth," of the Smoke Abatement Act of last year. To him it seems " a miserable triumph," in that, while it provides for the abatement of factor; smoke, it leaves the problem of...

Mr. H. Avray Tipping, in the second volume of the

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third period of English Homes (Country Life, £3 3s.), sketches the history and describes the architecture of thirty of the best examples of Late Tudor and Early Stuart houses....

This Week's Books

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LET us commend most heartily to employers and workmen alike Mr. H. B. Butler's admirable report on Industrial Relations in the United States (P. S. King. 2s 6d.). Mr. Butler has...

General Knowledge Competition

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TI1E prize of one guinea which the Editor offers weekly for the best thirteen General Knowledge Questions (with answers) is awarded to Rev. G. S. Richardson for the following:—...

Mr. A. L. Hayward, who has already edited Ned Ward's

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London Spy, now brings forward another specimen of out- at-elbows seventeenth-century journalism in selections from Tom Brown's Amusements, Serious and Comical (Routledge,...

An entertaining and reliable book about the country through which

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one is passing adds considerably to the pleasures of any holiday afoot, and in the West Highlands of Scotland especially, if one is alone, and unfamiliar with the lie of the...

Under the somewhat clumsy title of The Plan of the

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Educational Colonies Associations (Kasimbazar Institute, Cal- cutta) Captain Petavel, who is Lecturer on the Poverty Problem in Calcutta University, outlines a scheme to...

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D. H. Lawrence's Novels

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Women in Love. The Lost Girl. The Plumed Serpent. By D. H. Lawrence. (Seeker. 3s. 6d.) MARTIN SECKER has been too careful in producing his cheap edition of D. H. Lawrence's...

DIRECT subscribers who are changing their addresses are caked to

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

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The Most Popular . Otter • 3s. 6d. ) Dm any

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pets in the annals ever enjoy such a vo g ue as Moses and Aaron ? They were as wicked as the jackdaw _of .Rheims, as playful as Puck, and as g ymnastic as Ariel. The immensity...

The Analysis of Matter The Analysis of Matter. By Bertrand

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Russell. (Kegan Paul. -21s.) Ma. Russrmes sin g ularly acute mind is known to excel in the critical discussion of the philosophic and lo g ical basis of scientific thou g ht and...

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Islam Since the War

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Survey of International Affairs - 1925. Volume I. By Professor Arnold J. Toynbee. (Oxford University Press. 25s.) Tim Royal Institute of International Affairs continues to add...

Prayer Book Revision

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A Plea for the New Prayer Book. By the Bishop of Manchester. (S.P.C.K; 4d. net.) responsibility for action over the Revision of the Prayer Book is passing from the Bench of...

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A Bishop Sees the World

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Some World Problems. By the Right Rev. Arthur F. Winnington Ingram, D.D., Lord Bishop of London. (Longmans. 4s.) THE Bishop of London always holds the platform by his amazing...

A Study of Theatrical Art

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The Development of the Theatre. By Allardyce Nicoll, M.A. Illustrated. (Harrap. £2 2s. net.) T.UE energy of Professor Allardyce Nicoll is amazing. Deeply engaged with his...

Some Art Books

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MESSRS. BENN'S Decorative Sculpture (12 2s.) consists of a series of illustrations collected by Georg Kowalczyk. It is a beautifully produced volume and will save the student...

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The Magazines

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MR. FORD MADOX FORD'S fanciful and amusing article " Pax '' stands first in the Nineteenth Century. Humorously, yet with an undercurrent of very serious meaning, he deprecates...

GREEN FOREST. By Nathalie Sedgwick Colby. (.Jona- than Cape. 7s.

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6d.)—The scene is staged on board a liner in the passage between New York and Cherbourg. The little world of the passengers is ably described and the American heroine is an...

Fiction

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Manchurian Memories Tinker's Leave. By Maurice Baring. (Heinemann. 7e. Cd.) To forestall such rather unimportant controversies as have been waged in the minds of critics over...

TRACKS IN THE SNOW. By Lord Charnwood. (Benn. 7s. 6d.)—This

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is a detective story, and, as such, is above the average. But it has other virtues that are seldom found in mystery novels. The action turns upon the murder in 1896 of Eustace...

SYLVIA OF THE MINUTE. By Helen R. Martin. (John Lane.

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7s. 6d.)—In spite of its absurdities, this is a very entertaining little story. It gives an excellent picture of the Pennsylvanian Dutch, a section of the population of America...

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A HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD. By M. Rostovtzeff. Translated

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from the Russian by J. D. Duff. Vol. II. Rome. (Clarendon Press. 21s.)—The second and concluding volume of Professor Rostovtzeff's masterly sketch of ancient history is even...

Current Literature

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- THE CAPE PENINSULA. By Rene Juta. Illustrated. (Lane. 7s. 6d.)—As one wanders over and around the Ir.apetown flats there will be met much beauty of nature, and also, as is...

THE LAW RELATING TO AUTHORS AND PUB-. LISHERS. By B.

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Mackay Cloutman, V.C., and Francis W. Luck. (John Bale, Sons and Danielsson. 7s. 6d.)—The shrewdest author or the wisest publisher might read with profit Messrs. Cloutman and...

TRAVELS IN SPAIN AND THE EAST, 1808-10. By Sir Francis

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Sacheverell Darwin. (Cambridge University Press. 6s.)—This hitherto unpublished diary of an adven- turous tour made while the Peninsular War was raging illus- trates afresh the...

THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK. By J. B. Priestley. (" English Men

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of Letters." Macmillan. 5s.)—Mr. Priestley finds Peacock, the efficient India House official and the perverse and whimsical amateur in literature, " a treacherous subject for...

THE MESOPOTAMIA CAMPAIGN. (Official History of the War.) Vol. IV.

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Illustrated. By General F. J. Moberly. (H.M. Stationery Office. 15s.)—With this volume General Moberly brings to an end his survey of the operations in Mesopotamia and adjacent...

EAST AFRICA ; A NEW DOMINION. By . Major Archibald Church.

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(H. F. and G. Witherby. 18s.)—Major Church, a former Labour member, who went with the Parlia- mentary Commission to East Africa in 1924, has written an interesting book on the...

STONYHURST WAR RECORD. By the Rev. Francis Irwin, S.J., assisted

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by Captain Cecil Chichester-Constable. (Stonyhurst College. 21s.)--Stonyhurst sent 1,012 old boys to the War, and 167 of them were killed. The famous school's War record is...

EUROPE SINCE WATERLOO : 1815-1919. By * William Stearns Davis, Ph.D.

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Illustrated. (Parsons. 30s.)—One would wish to treat with respect the work of a Professor of History in the University of Minnesota. But an examination of his book makes respect...

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PORCELAIN: THE SOUL OF IRELAND. By John Mackay. (Berm. 10s.

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6d.)—In a series of essays, character- istically Irish in that an outward merriment masks an under- lying melancholy, Mr. Mackay describes his recent progress through Ireland by...

SOME LEFT-HANDED MARRIAGES. By E. B.

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D'Auvergne. Illustrated. (Hutchinson. 18s.) — Mr. D'Auvergne is modest and disarming, for he quite frankly admits that his volume is " not addressed to the serious student." At...

Insurance

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ABOUT BONUSES.—III. WE have dealt with the surplus out of which bonuses are paid, and with two popular methods of distributing the available surplus among the policy holders....

HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHIES : SOUTH AFRICA. (British Empire Educational Press. 6d.)—A

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quite admirable little.history of . South Africa—No. in the Empire Series—is published in pamphlet form. To have made so short a book on such a large subject so interesting is...

A Library List

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MISCELLANEOUS : The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. By William Blake. (Dent. 21s.) The Life of William Blake. By Mona Wilson. (The Nonesuch Press. £2 5s.) The Psalms. Arranged and...

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Finance—Public and Private

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Should Railway Stocks be Bought ? ON more than one occasion I have written in these columns somewhat disparagingly of English railway securities from the standpoint of the...

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A FLOURISHING PUBLISHING BUSINESS.

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The publishing business of Messrs. Benn Brothers, Limited, would seem to be flourishing and just recently proposals have been made to the shareholders for an increase in the...

The meeting of the Tanganyika Concessions Company, of which a

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Report will be found elsewhere, has an interest which extends much farther than the mere body of shareholders, as the story unfolded by the Chairman, Sir Reginald Wingate, and...

MOTOR BOATS.

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The occasions are few when our leading shipping magnates at the annual meetings of undertakings in which they are concerned fail to emphasize the attributes of the motor boat,...

The latest annual accounts of the Victoria Falls and Trans.

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vaal Power Company show a continued expansion in pmfits, The dividend rose from 14 to 15 per cent., while the profit was £371,000 against £364,000, after meeting all expenses...

Financial Notes

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MARKETS QUIETLY CHEERFUL. WE have now reached the period of the year when business on the Stock Exchange is popularly supposed to be non- existent. The financial magnates arc...

Holders of Rubber shares must be bewildered and, perhaps —unless

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the persistent fall in values has killed the sense of humour—somewhat amused by the sudden change in the winds of opinion blowing across the Atlantic. For a twelve- month now...

A FAMILY CHARTER.

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Tile Scottish Widows' Fund and Life Assurance Society has devised an interesting scheme which it describes as the Family Charter. Under this scheme it is possible for . a...

Shareholders of brewery concerns seem to have become SD accustomed

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to a never-ending expansion in profits that following the announcement by Watney Combe Reid and Co. of a dividend making the distribution on the Deferred Stock the same as the...

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Motoring Notes

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The 16 - 40 Six Cylinder A.G. THE A.C. has been for some years conspicuous to those who observe the cars that pass them by on the road, and in print, for two reasons—first...