HE prospects of a " settlement " in the coal dispute are better than they have been at any time, if only cause appallingly bad leadership has now left the men e to faCe with a...

that provided for in the 1921 agreement. This minimum to be paid, whatever the hours worked. 2. The ratio for the division of the net proceeds of the industry between wages and...

and the most important arguments concerned a longer working day. It then became apparent, to the astonishment of the Government, that, after all, the Executive of the- Miners'...

this situation may be idly described. On Thursday, November 4th, ttic Delegate Conference of the Miners' Federation accepted the proposal that the General Council of the should...

miners as satisfactory, and on Friday, November 5th, negotiations were reopened between the Coal Committee of the Cabinet and the Executive of the Federation. " District...

aides, London, ' W.O. 2.=A Subscription to the SPEcTATOE costa frig Shillings per anning, including pOitage,, to any part of the . The SPECTATOR is registered as a ltewepaper....

copy of a letter which the Government had taken the precaution of sending in order to prevent further mis- understanding. The main heads of this offer, which may prove to be of...

a long interview with M. Briand and conveyed to him the contents of two Notes which Signor Mussolini h sent to the French Ambassador in Rothe: The Not were an apologetic answer...

been remarkable for its harmony. Never had more _a genuine desire been displayed to solve di ffi cult problems and to bring about perfect unity. We believe this to be no...

could not possibly agree to longer hours, and that if they were accepted he could not bear the blame. . The T.U.C. mediators unquestionably have a very serious grievance against...

significance of the crisis caused by the Chin denunciation of the Belgium Treaty and by the imposition of Chinese taxes at Canton as though the Customs had never been -...

gave one of his characteristic reviews of the world's affairs, and found causes for gratification almost everywhere except at home. The General Strike, although swiftly...

of a speech made by Mr. Cosgrove on Friday, November 5th, when he received the freedom of Manchester. As the Loudon papers did not gen era l report the'speeeh, - shall quote a...

the Cantonese forces has been diSappointed He has decided to abandon the whOle - province of Kiangsi, and will concentrate his forces on Chekia and other places nearer to...

about the irregular or secret armies of Germany. s the article was by a pacifist whose object was to how the perils which beset peace, exaggeration may be uspected. It cannot...

announced that the near relations of men who had died in the War would be permitted after all to wear the dead men's medals on Armistice Day. Originally the relations were...

his Letters of Credence to -President o n Hindenburg on Tuesday. We • - cannot ask "of Sir onald Lindsay more than that he 'should do as well Germany as he did in Turkey. • :He...

an important letter the Factories Bill from several well-known women. e are unfeignecty glad that at last the Factories Bill, Iiich consolidates much factory legislation in a...

late to deal in a modern spirit with the hours- of ployment. - The possibilities of 1 demanding overtime seem to be widely extended, and that. not only in the case of women but...

the marriage of the Duke of Brabant, the heir to le Belgian Throne, to Princess Astrid of Sweden. The nil marriage took place in the Royal 'Palace at Stock- alin on Thursday,...

costs chargeable on shipping in British ports, and they provide an explanation of the fact that shipping tends increasingly to use Continental ports. With the exception of...

for advertising on postmarks. No doubt some money could have been made by this means, hut, as the Postmaster-General acknowledged, the revenue from it would have been much less...

cent. cn December 8rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 99ix.d.; on Wednesday week 991x.d. ; a year ago 1001. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 841; on...

"FASCISM in Italy is following the course of most -112 Dictatorships. Three years ago there was a tendency to map the ways by which Italians might some day return to...

T HE Government are determined to carry through the Electricity Bill, and most people will agree with them that this measure is of much more moment to the prosperity of the...

II.--The Question of Ownership : Land Titles T HE question of ownership of the land is the least important economically of all the issues involved in the British land problem ;...

[In this article the Head-Master of Harrow makes a striking contribution to a question all thinking men are asking them- selves to-day—how may the barriers of class prejudice be...

III.—Hampstead v. Shoreditch " B IRTH control is here to stay," Lord Dawson of Penn declared not long ago. That is a fact which few who have studied its development will deny....

RE last las not even now been heard of the case of the two Italians in Ainerica, Sacco and Vanzetti, ho five years ago were convicted of the murder of a Pay-roll clerk at South...

House to see the Exhibition of Posters advertising the Empire's market products, my imagination flamed and warmed itself in advance at the prospect of seeing orange orchards...

prison, the chaplain talked to me on the topography of crime. He said : " It is a strange fact that nearly all the murders in London are committed north of the Thames." I...

I WAS out fishin g for mackerel in the autumn silence of the Hebrides, and the g ulls stirred my mind with stran g e fancies. It was a calm and g lassy sea, g rey as the mist....

. The Cloister and the World [" THE CRADLE SONG" AND "THE LOVER," by G. MARTINET SIERRA, AT THE FORTUNE THEATRE.-" YELLOW SANDS," ht .. EDEN AND ADELAIDE PHILLPOTTS, AT THE...

Czechoslovakian Male Voice Choir recalls the good impression made by these singers during their last English tour, seven years ago. The concert given in the Queen's Hall on...

[" BEN Hun" AT Till: " MADEMOISELLE FROM ARMENTIARES " AT THE MARBLE ARCH PAVILION.] THE overwhelmingly spectacular Ben Hur, which has taken three years to make, has just come...

A Letter from Brazil [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] &a—To the mind of many an Englishman the name of Brazil conveys an impression only a little less vague than that of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SLR,—It is to be regretted that your contributor, Mr. F. A. Mackenzie, should repeat the quite inaccurate assertion that the beginning of the...

AN ALTERNATIVE OCCUPATION FOR UNEMPLOYED MINERS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sig,—The coal strike will leave such a legacy of debt and unemployment that it is perhaps not...

abundantly clear to everyone who has studied the coal situation and the Report of the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry that even when the present coal dispute is finally...

the SPECTATOR.] Sin—This parish consists of about 2,700 acres, and contains 850 people. It is probably as well farmed as anywhere in England. In spite of bad times money is...

Sta,—In his interesting letter in last week's issue, " J. M. J." has failed to notice the peculiar form of expression used both by St. Luke (xx. 35) and St. Paul (Phil. iii....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] 8 111,-1 read with interest the article under the above heading in your issue of November 6th, and noticed the suggestion, which seems to he...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In your issue for September 25th in an editorial on the Canadian elections I notice two statements which surprise me. One is : " Finally...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The settlement at Hamburg of the Company of Merchant Adventurers and the establishment of the British Factory dates from the year 1567....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Slit,—From among the several letters upon the above subject, appearing in your issue for November 6th, may I call attention to two striking...

SIR,—Americans give a generous welcome to good English novels. It is difficult for us sometimes to reciprocate, because their output is large and much of it passes us by. I...

My Dear Sir, — You have written in The Private Life. of Helen of Troy, a great book, which will live. It is a mine of humour and wisdom, but it is much more than that.. Many of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, Would you please publish the following open letter which I have written to Mr. John Erskine, the author of The Private Life of Helen of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin s —While desiring to express my gratitude to Mr. Brockle, hurst for his letter appearing in your issue of October 30th, may I venture to...

John Ervine's article on this subject which has appeared (under the title " Yep ") in last week's Spectator, is, in my opinion, open to much criticism. To say, for instance,...

Sim,—Some of your readers may be glad to hear of the success which has crowned the efforts of the Worcester County (Mass.) Sportsmanship Brotherhood in sending over an amateur...

reviewer, "R. J.," in criticizing Shakespeare's play of Henry V, alludes to " that exquisite speech, wherein Mrs. Quickly tells of Falstaff's death words, whose per- fection in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Mr. Gordon-George gives quite an anthology of the Englishman's impressions of Italy. But not one of his passages, nor all of them together,...

Appearance and Reality Re-dedicated to the Spirit of Armistice Day, 1926. IN those great realms of light— From which our rounded skies, the wide, the deep, Seem but a small...

[To the Editor of the SrEc-raToal Sm,—I was absent from Shanghai for most of September or I should have written earlier about your admirable article on China in your issue of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] bl11, — An old Scots friend, on. a temporary visit to London, came to see me. Referring to the recently expressed opinion of the ex-Kaiser as...

Shepherd (Bell, 10s. 6d.), is as perfectly produced a classic as we have seen. That the illus- trations are by Mr. Shepherd is a paean of praise in itself. There is a sweet...

ARE the scintillating monographs in the " To-day and To-morrow " series losing a little of their sparkle ? It would be hardly surprising if they were. Lucullus ; or, The Food of...

10s. 6d.) has written a valuable, comprehensive, succinct and extremely readable contribution on the vexed subject of industrial relations. There is no space here to review his...

Magazine. 5s.) is not the kind of book that often comes to the Spectator. But Mr. Casson, the author, has some eminently sensible advice to offer on the interesting and (in...

REPRINTS AND TRANSLATIONS :-Epicurus his Morals. T rans . lated by Walter Charlton in 1651. (Peter Davies. no Letters Concerning the English Nation. a; Monsieur de Voltaire....

Under the Eagle's Feathers. By Veronica and Paul King. (T. Fisher Unwin ; Bonn. 108.) Under the Eagle's Feathers. By Veronica and Paul King. (T. Fisher Unwin ; Bonn. 108.) Mn....

The Editor offers a prize of £5 for an Essay in Prose or Verse on "The Character of an Ideal Friend." What are the essentials to be looked for in a true friend If you were...

of £5 for a list of The Seven Wonders of the Modern World (twentieth century). A LIVELY competitor might have set himself to make a parallel list of ancient and modern wonders....

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

To say that this little book consists of Mi.. Shaiv's desk- sweepings would be ruife, but perhaps true. On the otherliand, it is equally true to say that his desk-sweepinks ....

IN the two years which have almost elapsed since , Baron von Hiigel's death--and even whilst we are still waiting for the publication of his great work on the Reality of God —it...

Viscount Knutsford. (Arnold : 21s. net.) Loan KxL'TSFOaD is no philosopher. Cursed with the physical courage of forty tigers and moral courage more ferocious than decent, he has...

The Epic of Mount Everest. By Sir Francis Younghusband, (Arnold. is. 6d.) The Epic of Mount Everest. By Sir Francis Younghusband, (Arnold. is. 6d.) In Himalayan Tibet. By A....

WE have long been waiting for this book.. It is the first piece of sustained, well-informed, really " professional," to use the word in its best sense, piece of film criticism...

People of the Veil. Being an Account of the Habits, Organiza- tion and History of the Wandering Tuareg Tribes which Inhabit the Mountains of Air or Ashen in the Central Sahara....

Tins week the British Weekly celebrates its fortieth anniversary and publishes a special issue full of interesting and arresting articles. Sir Josiah Stamp, writing of " The...

Eton and King's : Recollections by M. R. James. (London : Williams and Norgate. 15s. net.) THE foundations of King Henry constitute together a Society united by many ties....

Modern Gardens : British and Foreign. With a Commentary by P. S. Cane. Edited by C. Geoffrey Moline and Shirley B. Wainwright. (The Studio. 7s. 6d.) A Simple Guide to Rock...

net.)—The well-known Professor of Latin at Harvard, who has lately received an honorary degree at Oxford, gives a taste of his quality in this charming little book on Ovid. It...

5s. net.)—The proud amateur who owns a dog is too much inclined to concentrate on his own possession, and, when he has paid for the licence, to lack charity and look on all...

THE MIDNIGHT COURT and THE ADVENTURES OF A LUCKLESS FELLOW. Two Poems translated from the Gaelic by Percy Arland Ussher. With a Preface by W. B. Yeats. (Cape. 6s. net.)—Many of...

6d.)—The most remarkable thing about this big and fully- illustrated book of African adventure, written by the wife of a well-known explorer, is its price—three and sixpence. It...

GALAHAD. By John Erskine. (Nash and Grayson. 7s. 6d. net.)—By irresistibly convincing revelations , of the imagin- ary " real facts " about King Arthur, Guinivere and Lancelot...

net.)—Mr. Stephen Vincent Benet is one of the most promising novelists of the younger American school. His new story gives an interesting account of the early foundations of...

net.)—Mr. Morley's novel, Thunder on the Left,- was so brilliant that his essays seem in comparison unsub- stantial, however delicate and sensitive. This author has a most...

Allen and Unwin, Ltd. las. 6d.)—This book is written as a simple guide for the laYman who wishes to be initiated into the principles of architecture through the medium of past...

completion of Mr. Thorburn's British Birds is something of an event, for he is almost supreme as a portrait-painter of birds in his combination of fidelity and suggestion. He...

Swinnerton has moved a long way from Nocturne in his new novel, Summer Storm. But, although he now gives a certain framework of plot, the interest of his book is still in the...

7s. 6d. net.)—The ever-amusing Mr. Birmingham has never written a. more engaging or laugh- able extravaganza than this one. It deals with the inception of a local pageant in a...

sketches of Suffolk,,' both in line and colour, are wonderfully delicate and charming. The letterpress is less attractive. It should not, however, be regarded as an illustrated...

Watt, the old Yorkshire woman, tells these stories to a convalescent London girl in search of health in the dales. Whether she talks about " The Sail of a Sponge Cake," " The...

gives a very able account of the struggle which is gone through by Malcolm Tweedie between his love of science and his love of his wife and child. Research work does not enable...

net:)—After dashing home to Scotland in his last book, Mr. Cunninghame Graham here returns to South America, the history of which he has already illuminated for many readers....

Murray. 7s. 6d.)—The author is distinguished in another field than that of fiction and those studies which are incidents of Sir Hugh's early career, such as " In the Rushing of...

net.) -Miss Dorothy Canfield gives us in her new novel even better work than we have learnt to expect from fier: Mrs. Bascomb's moral problem as to whether she did or did not...

short stories to-day is perhaas higher than that attained in any other literary form, and this book contains an admirable collection, reprinted from various magazines or books....

denied that Mr. Hamsun is a writer apt to prove ; infinitely tedious to many. Others will appreciate the rough vitality and clarity of this tale of Norwegian villagers and...

£2,000 A .Mosatt. The accounts have been shown me of a farm that must be the most intensive in England, and I should think, one of the most intensive in Europe. I investigated...

writes an interesting introduction to these clever stories and gives us short biographical notes of the authors who are for the most part unk-nown to the general English reader.

containing 178 stories "from the literatures of all periods and countries, " by Barrett H. Clark and Maxim Lieber, is a book :which will be generally welcomed. The stories here...

(T. Fisher Unwin. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Heckles Willson provides an entirely adequate translation of 1d. Barreyre's Le Navire Aveugle, a work which for sheer cumulative horror it...

Od. net.)—A rather childish story of the Scottish glens under James L's rule. The tams of phrase by which the authoress seeks to convey the savour of the Celtic speech become...

6d. net.)—To those who like satire King Goshawk and the Birds will give great satisfaction. The story is a fantasia on this and other worlds many genera- . tions hence. On earth...

Cid. net.)—It is always pleasant to welcome a volume of Canadian fiction. The earlier part of Mr. Gibbon's Eyes of a Gypsy gives a most lively and entertaining account of what...

net.)—A gentle tale of last century about. a rustic hero whose enormous height' was at once a tragedy_ and his means of livelihood as " freak " in a travelling show. He loved...

6d. net.)—In A Woman in Exile Mr. Vael le a gives us a very remarkable book — remarkable, too, in a way which nothing that this author has done before would lead one to •...

A LOST PUFFIN. The wild and sudden storms that have fallen upon England make us realize how near our inland places are to the sea. Sea-faring birds of very many sorts have been...

Lessons from the Coal Stoppage BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. HOPEFULNESS is a great virtue. It is a virtue, moreover, never more greatly needed than in times of adversity. In the...

A number of interesting little events continually happen in out-of-the-way country places and are never recorded, even in the local papers. Indeed, local papers pay as a rule...

In general we do not take enough care of our archaeological discoveries or make enough fuss about them. For example : some fifty yards from the Great North Road in...

FILMS. MOANA.-A delicious peep into the real life of a South Sea Islander, exquisitely photographed. THE Sox or THH SHEIK.—The late Rudolph Valentino's final film : very...

How far the increased prosperity of the De Beers Consoli- dated Mines may be connected with the stabilization of the market for diamonds cannot precisely be determined, but, at...

BANKING IN AUSTRALIA. • It is always satisfactory to be • able to comment upon progress in any of our banking institutions, but especially so when that progress is accompanied...

MARKET HOPEFULNESS. OPTIMISM with regard to an early settlement of the coal dispute is offered as the main reason for the continued cheer- fulness of the Stock Markets. All the...

The firmness of Investment Stocks is undoubtedly partly connected with a more hopeful feeling with regard to the monetary outlook. It cannot be said, of course, that appre-...

The general balance-sheet also discloses a strong position. Deposits and Current Accounts have increased during the year from £25,700,000 to £28,200,000. The Cash position is...