agreement, which Sir Ronald Lindsay has been patiently and ably negotiating, was signed at Angora last Saturday. The "Brussels Line," with a very small modification, has been...

arc waiting for a better mood in the coal industry—waiting naturally enough, for without consent there can be no real settlement—the very able work Of the Coal Commission will...

though it does not substantially alter the sense. Their precise answer was that their first concern was with their own conditions and that they could argue only about them. The...

as wages and hours have become like red flags to Anda- lusian bulls the miners should be asked, without reference for the moment to those dread words, what they could do in the...

rpm coal dispute is in a worse state than ever. On -I , Tuesday the owners met the miners for an " infor- mal conference" and the meeting ended with increased bitterness. The...

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the eccentricities Of genius up to a point, especially those of Mr. LlOyd . George, whose cheerful buoyancy has often been a prop and help to the country. What they ought not to...

than its natureled anyone to expect; It is quite untrue to say that Lord Lloyd prohibited' Zaghlul from forming a Ministry. Zaghlul with his overwhelming majority, had, of...

instead of six non-permanent members . and that three should be elected for three years, three for two years, and three for one year. .One . third of all the non-permanent...

of Commons on Tuesday Lord Oxford's latest letter was read. He refused to withdraw anything he had said. We said last week that in any voting Mr. Lloyd George would 'probably...

- were electea. It will be remem- bered that when Germany - was about to join the Council as a permanent member objections - were raised by three non-permanent . members, -...

the Liberal dispute Of the tactical advantages to which we referred last week. Lord Oxford's letter rebuking him no doubt had the appearance of being unneceasarify severe about...

circumstances for both Egypt and Great Britain. We hope that in continuance of his great work he will at the first opportunity negotiate a Treaty with Egypt which will put the...

fear of invasion but the expense of providing against that danger. The -British Government, who did not misplace • their trust in Mr. Amery, are to be heartily congratulated on...

the future composition of the Council of the League of Nations indicates, we . hope, that it will be accepted by alland that in Se p tember Germany will loin the Council as a...

of _London has received from the Treasury Solicitor formal notice to quit the site which is now occupied by the Institute of Historical Research. This is the result of the...

the Free Church Council on the subject of the betting tax. His answer to the ejections offered by the deputation was, in our judgment, convincing as well as considerate....

of Canada is :very wise. It will not be easy . to succeed Lord By - ng, but Lord Willingdon's fine record encourages us to believe that he will satisfy the Canadians as few...

which Mr. Baldwin gave at the opening of the Harrow War .Memorial on Thursday, June 3rd. He spoke of social service. The boy- of '1026 who asks himself" What shall I do with my...

on Betting, feels strongly, of course, that street betting ought to be taxed on moral grounds as a method of restriction.. He does not shrink at all from the idea of licensed...

Wrench who was very well known as a Land Commissioner in Ireland, and was . appointed a member of the Privy Council. Last year Mr. Wrench becanic one of the proprietors of the...

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 100'; on Wednesday week 1001; a year ago 99 . Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 87; on . Wednesday week...

'T HE longer the discussion about the Thames bridges continues the more the piiblic becothes bewildered. Many 'people who once thought that they saw the issue clearly—for...

IT P EOPLE are too apt to talk as though the only ' obstacles in the way of a settlement in the coalfields 'were either the "stubbornness and unreasonableness of the miners," or...

AAT HEN- the Senate of the United States re j ected the Y V. Treaty of Versailles thereby defeatin g the cherished hopes of Woodrow Wilson. and indefinitely delayin g Ameri c an...

BY NEW MEMBER. M EMBERS of Parliament have settled down to routine business with considerable reluctance. All thoughts are still centred upon the coal nightmare, but no line of...

BY THE REV. CANON THE HON. E. LYTTELTON. • I N the third issue of the Bishop of Manchester's magazine—The Pilgrim—it is remarked (and the remark is weighty) that "a prophetic...

of Derby Day, not on Epsom Downs, but in the hall of the Royal Society of Medicine. Sir Jagadis •Chander Bose held us spellbound. Curious intruments stood on the lecture table,...

T HE first primroses opened their buds in woods so leaf- - less and so little splashed with green that even the salt-marshes and the-high moorland grazings had a livelier look...

By A RENT COLLECTOR. [In response to requests we have decided to publish a few of the articles, describing a characteristic day's work or experience, which were sent in for a...

in the British Commonwealth? This is a problem which is for ever worryin g the autonomists in Canada, South Africa, and elsewhere. Since the War it has been clearly laid down...

Cape Town, General Hertzo g referred to South Africa's international status as follows :--" We say that a free nation must reco g nize only one authority— the will of its own...

A CLIMB WORTH WHILE ["Thu MOUNTAIN." BY C. K. MUNRO. STAGE SOCIETY.] FOUR hours of it, heady hours, too, during which we had to use our brains, but, at the end, a mountain worth...

AND H. M. HARWOOD. -ROyALTY THEATRE.] WitEN did the Modern Girl, or the Modern Woman, first appear upon the stage ? They tell us that she was a creation of the War, which...

in a recent speech, as reported in the Australian Press, stated that the centre of importance in the British Empire was gradually moving towards Australia and M I the course of...

American college football teams, illustrating what a melting pot of nations the United States of America are : Archosko, Barbuti, Buono, Berkowitz, d'Aloia, Farina, Kuzco,...

COVENT GARDEN OPERA. OTELLO." IF it is true that in Otello Verdi has taken an elemental tragedy and transformed it -into a domestic quarrel, yet we may forgive him in that he...

A LETTER FROM . STOCKHOLM [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] - Sih,—While most of the Zest of the world is singing the praises of Mr. Osten Linden, Siveden's Foreign Minister,...

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• [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In your Topics of the Day, under the title, " The Liberal Crisis," you reply to A. E. M.'s very sensible argument, which contended that...

THE COAL STOPPAGE 'AND CHILDREN'S ALLOWANCES [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—There is one part of the Coal Report which seems to have been forgotten by owners and miners...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Our nation has been through a testing time and has emerged consolidated but chastened. The recent struggle should be a lesson to us...

view of recent correspondence in your columns on this subject, that readers who are concerned should Study the very excellent review of Profit Sharing in the "Survey of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The "Challenge to the Reformation" Meeting, held in the Albert Hall last week, deserves more than a passing notice. First, because it is...

[To the Editor of the SpEorxroa.] Sin,—In your sympathetic article on the Liberal Crisis you - write "Rut we hear too little of young Liberals ; from Oxford and Cambridge we...

Sia—One is grateful to Professor Scott for attempting to deal with a pressing social problem—i.e., housing working people in such a way as to enable them to produce most of the...

SIR,—Have you not been needlessly submissive in your footnote to Mr. Caslogan's criticism; p. 860? I . venture to say that the e x pression "Pull . Steam Ahead" is perfectly...

Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The recent general strike is not the first occasion on which an attempt has been made on the liberties of the nation. In Stuart times we were...

youallow me to bring to the notice of your readers an appeal which is being made for a new X-ray Department for the Royal Northern Hospital ? Not only is the space in the...

Sia,—We have read with pleasure the sympathetic review of Lord Fife and his Factor in your issue of May 29th, and would like to assure your reviewer that we had masses of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In reply to the " Spectabilia " paragraph and Mr. Justice MacGregor's comment in your issue of May 20th, your readers will be interested...

THE MIGHT-HAVE-BEEN Tins tinie to-morrow we'll have said good-bye Perhaps for ever ; I was not a friend, Nor yet acquaintance ; something of a blend. We'd sometimes talked...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Your correspondent, Mr. C. H. Miller, says, in reference to the coal dispute, that "the Government is in a position - to .demand that...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—It is possible that your correspondent, Mr. Chester, may be under some misapprehension. The Council of the Publishers' Association have...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The following story will, I feel sure, interest your many dog-loving readers. My gardener's wife, who died the other day, had a little...

As we announced in last week's Spectator we shall be glad' to receive, acknowledge in the Spectator, and forward to the Children's Country Holidays Fund any donations our...

Xhc 5p'ectator . No. 5111.) WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, 'JUNE 12, 1926 [oR

GONE are the south-wind rains, The Kona storms are gone. The bracing Koolau wind's a-blowing,. And First-break surf comes on. • _ Tall on the beach he stands. Scanning the...

IT is a cold douche - to the ambitious mind when one realizes how Maurice Hewlett has' been allowed - by' the - Monitors Of literature to pass - to a - temporary _oblixion: We...

TIPS is the story of a lady who wanted to be a great singer, but failed, because she had so many , advantages. Miss Viola Tree—though the greater part of this book is concerned...

So This is Helen ! The Private Life of Helen of Troy. By John Erskine. (London : Nash and Grayson. 7s. 6d. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co.) FROM Indianapolis comes a...

THIS volume, completing Mr. Bell's Tetrateuch on the Origins of Architecture, is the more welcome that we have no modern work on the subject of such an exhaustive and general...

Ancient Greece at Work : an Economic History of Greece' from the Homeric Period to the Roman Conquest. By THIS is a learned but thoroughly interesting description of farming,...

A Slayer of Gods By Sir James George Frazer. The Worship of Nature. Vol. I. (Macmillan. 25s.) THIS is an exhiiustiv - e, and - we regret to say exhausting, catalogue- of...

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The English of the Line. Alan E. Mulgan. (Whitcombe and Tombs, Ltd. Auckland. 2s. 6d. net.) IN the preface to this most exquisitely produced collection of her husband's poems,...

P. Gilbert. Translated from the French by Robert B. Douglas. (John Lane. 12s. t3d.) THE reviewer, having been himself disguised as a woman for several weeks during the War,...

Ferdinand Tuohy. .(Murray. 7s. 6c1 z ) A "TRAINED Seal," Mr. Tuohy tells us, is journalistic argot for" politician-of-internaflonal-repute;turried-newspaper-...

Beautiful Bells Carillon Music and Singing Towers of the Old World—and Carillon Music and Singing Towers is a great advance on the author's first work on this subject, The...

May fishermen, from the times of the Roman up, have credited different Species OT`fish=or Ought we to say fishes 9— with high intelligence. 'kyle" goes a stage further. He shows...

Sea Ventures of Britain. By Commander Tapre.11 Dorling (" Taffrail"). (Collins. 8s. 6d.) ' "An island race, the tang of the sea was in British nostrils as the salt was, and...

WHEN we say that Mr. Dawson's book belongs, to the same class as Lord Bryce's monograph on South Africa, we are conscious that we are giving - it high praise, yet this high...

: Grace I. Colborn. (Appleton. 12s. 6d.) The author finishes his book with a declaration that he and hi S comrades would be ready to return to Greenland at any moment, Which 1...

Dog Days. Selected by Owen Rutter. (Clement Ingleby. 5s.) Ma. OWEN Rtyrrun has been pursuing what he himself calls "the gentle pastime of - doghunting in English verse." He has...

Wells. (Hurst and Blackett. 15s.) Eric the Red and Leif the Lucky of the Norse sagas Showed the way to the author and his crew in taking the' Shanghai,' a small ketch, over the...

(Murray. 16s.) From beginning to end this is a really hearty book. The chapters on 'jungle-travel are en- thralling and the elephant stories such as the capture and ; education...

THAT the quality of the race is rapidly deteriorating is the thesis of an intensive propaganda in favour of birth control, and a crop of books about eugenics. What are the facts...

Unwin. 12s. 6d.). Steam and the harpoon gun with its bursting charge have taken much of the sport and glamour from whaling ; but the need for hard bitten qualities of nerve and...

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M. POINCARn [COPYRIGRT IN THE U.S.A. BY THE New York Tiffin.] The Memoirs of Raymond Poineard. Translated and Adapted by Sir George Arthur, with a Preface by the Duke of...

Back (Black,' is. 6c1.) is a modest, business-like, well-written acemint of a great exploit. The illustrations are not so satisfactory as the text—no doubt because the book...

s We have just . received The Annual Register for 1925, published by Messrs. -Longnians; Green- and Co - . at ais. - net; also Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1926 (Oxford...

friend Comrade Eastman (The Youth Of Trotsky, Faber - and Gwyer, Os.) is a decidedly interesting and a well-written book. Little Leon never played much out of 'doors, never...

Garet Garrett (Kegan Paul, 2s. 6d.) is the latest of the alwaYs clever . To day and To morrow series. Mr. Garrett says that the heyday of finance has passed and that the future...

by Messrs. Harraii, were incorreetly priced at Is. - 2d. last vie . e a. k d ' instead of at Is., and that Measrs. Benn's Aug/I:Wan hooka of Mcidern Poetry were priced at '-is;...

Messix. Blackie's sixpenny editions of Standard English Classics sometimes have more gold in their small bodies than is con- tained in many a wide margined folio Of stately...

a joy to us. The Everyman Dictionary (2s: 6d.) is a compact-and useful work: the 'other • recent addition's t6 this famous" series are The Letter's" of William Cowper, Horace...

The Editor offers n prize. of 25 for a list of the ,seven greatest _ Victorians. • • • Fon the purposes of the competition, we confine the word " Victorians " to the British...

Missa.s. Mills and Boob publish' Listening to Lacoste at 5s., by Mr. John Pollock. This is an extremely interesting account Of the -methods: of AL Jean Kea Lactiste, illustrated...

Death-Bed - Visions which his sudden death prevented him-from- finishing. Messrs. Meth - uen now publish it at 3s. 6d., edited so well that no gaps are apparent. The subject is...

My Contemporaries. . By Maximilian-Harderi." (Jonathan Cape: 12s. 6d.) - • . . Ma. JONATHAN CAPE is to be congratulated on giving us this collection of Maximilian - Hardens....

Oxford and Cambridge at the Wicket. By P. F. Warner and F. S. Ashley Cooper. (Allen and Unwin. 58.) Some Cover Shots. By F. J. Chapple. (Cape. 2s. 6d.) M. CATTONT has been- for...

ilare. (Collins. 10s. 6d. net.)—Poets' prose is always stimulating and never more so than in the case of Mr. Walter de In Mare's scrupulously worded stories. The world of his...

The Silver Stallion. By James Branch Cabell. (The 13odley Head. 7s. fki. net.)—Those who recall with pleasure Mr. Cabell's Jurgen will be enchanted to learn in The Silver...

bound and printed book; with illustrations by Mr. Edmond Dulac, which tells in gra.; ciously ornate style of what befell the members of an eighteenth= dentury country house...

In Our Times, Mr. Mark Sullivan has revived old memories and presented a _breathless - review of the hurried years in America since the turn of the century—" a period...

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TOURS AND TOURING - 111•ITIL the advent of the motor-ear Great Britain was more or less an unknOwn quantity to most people: They kngsv certain watering-places and holiday...

7s. 6d.)-Evan Lee was a rare spirit, imbued with the -quintessence of romantic idealism. This story depicts his brief passage through school and Sandhurst, through the joys,...

Paul. 2s. (Id.) Old Bedford. By C. F. Farrar. (Simpkin, Marshall and F. R. Hockeliffe, Bedford. 21s.) The Old Latin Test of the Gospels Used by St. Augustine. By C. H. Milne....

AMENDING THE COMPANY LAW By ARTHUR W. KIDDY. NOT by any means for:the 'first cline, certain_reforms are - contemplated in the Law affecting Public Companies. Probably few...

A good feature in the dividend announcement of the Hud- son's Bay Company is the great improvement in the matter of the-land sales. Not since the year 1922-3 has a dividend been...

CHEERFUL MARKETS. WITH the exception of English Railway stocks and some Iron and Steel issues, the Stock Markets remain impervious to the influence of the coal stoppage. - Or,...

which .has just been issued of the Zinc Corporation, and, while the excellent figures are due, in part, to high prices for lead and spelter, there is no doubt that much credit.....

In the Foreign Market, however, there has been a notable— though certainly not surprising—exception to the general rumness in the shape of the weakness of French Rentes, which...

A sound business-like statement was made at the recent meeting of the British Shareholders Trust by the new Chairman. After paying a well-deserved tribute to the part played by...

That there are many industries, too, exempt so far from the economic effects of the coal stoppage is apparent from the great number of satisfactory reports which arc being...

. I referred recently in these columns to the manner in which fresh capital issues—provided they -were of an attractive character—might be regarded as immune from the effects of...

Considerable interest has been taken in banking circles the recent ItripOinttnent of ObOrte Ark1 Smith, recently London Manager of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, to a...

Once again the Report of Waring and Gillow shows marked progress, the net profit for the past year being £187,000 as against £161,000. It is true that the Ordinary dividend is...

invites' applications from women with experience in social work for temporary ernplo)paent as arsistant organisers of children'acare work. The permanent organising staff is...