14 AUGUST 1926

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No better statement of the position could be made than

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that which the Prime Minister telegraphed last week to the United States Press. His message in answer to a request for information explains concisely the part that H.M.'s...

political exhibitions. -This change has been illustrated by the calm

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acceptance of two new agreements with Germany. One is a provisional commercial agreement dealing with the Customs relations and is of the nature of a " most favoured nation "...

: We earnestly desire to see both - colliery companies and Miners

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depute new- negotiators,' who will not •consider :whether they are coming to a settlement_ • or not, but will simply come together determined to' decide what the settlement...

• It is disheartenink In find. OurseiVeS- 'in: the -

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fifteenth . week of the stoppage and ivith - -'n'n'Yeally:goOd news to record. A few Miners will- briibabli "IriCkle " back ; a district might break away fioni . - the...

The two Bills which we mentioned last week for establishing

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the new Sinking Fund and for regulating the powers of the Banque de France-were passed by the French Chamber on Thursday, August 0th. The franc improved, touching 1581 to the...

NEWS OF THE WEEK

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T HE coalminers, voting by representatives in their districts, have by a majority rejected the proposals which were carried by the Industrial Christian Fellowship to the Prime...

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" Incidents " and bloodshed are alleged to have occurred

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on the frontier of Bulgaria and Yugo-Slavia. The blame is naturally laid by the Serbians upon the Macedonian Komitajis, though a Bulgarian gendarme is also said to have been...

We publish elsewhere an article on the meeting of the

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British Association at Oxford, and as usual it is vain, even With the help of the admirable reports in the Times, to try to summarize here the mass of learning displayed in so...

M. Poincare hesitated over the plans for the repayment of

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France's international debts. Though the Senate and Chamber have been frightened and have behaved like " good boys " since M. Poincare's Government of National Union assumed...

This letter possibly turned the scale ; more probably M.

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Poincare had already given way to M. Marin and others of his Cabinet who are against ratification of the debt agreements. The question has been referred to a small Committee and...

On the first day of the serious work, Sir Josiah

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Stamp addressed the Economic section on the inheritance of wealth, dealing with this subject from a moral as well as from an economic standpoint, and, we might add as regards...

The account given by H.M.'s Government of its stewardship in

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Iraq through 1925 will be in due course presented to the League of Nations. We - have only space to mention it as creditable to all the officials con- cerned, not least because...

In the section of Geography, Mr. Ormsby-Gore spoke hopefully of

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the future of native races and urged our own duty of improving their public health, their pro- ductive capacity, especially in agriculture and their moral strength, to.. meet...

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We yield to none in the affection that we feel

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for Australia and her splendid cricket team, but we shall love them best of all if the English team manages to.beat them in the approaching Test Match 1 We do not disguise our...

The Clergy Pensions Scheme having been approved by both Houses

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of Parliament received the Royal Assent on Thursday, August 5th. For two years it has been advocated and criticized in . the Church Assembly. It therefore deserves to be...

We wish all success to the Empire Parliamentary Association and

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good results to the tour of a number of members which began last week. The Chairman, Lord Salisbury, had already started ahead. Repre- sentatives of Great Britain and'the Irish...

The International Law Association has been holding its Conference in

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Vienna. Lord Phillimore, Sir Alexander Renton, Sir Norman Hill, Sir Alfred Hopkinson and Mr. Manisty were among the British representatives; We feel very strongly that...

The Factories (No. 2) Bill was read for the first

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time in the House of Commons last week and the text was issued. It is one of those Bills upon which the Department has worked almost regardless of changes of Government. Mr....

The Admiralty has published a long statement upon the loss

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of Hampshire ' -in June, 1916. Nobody who is willing Ao be - convinced:will have any doubt. now - that the vessel struck a mine moored a few days before to the West of the...

We greatly regret that on Monday the large submarine, 1129,'

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sank by her berth in Devonport basin. She had been undergoing refit and had just returned from tilting tests. Most of the crew and dockyard men working upon her were ashore or...

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 1011 ; on Wednesday week 101 1J- ; a year ago 1011. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 861 ; on Wednesday...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY

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PARLIAMENT AND DEMOCRACY L AST week in his article on the Week in Parliament our contributor deplored the impotence of the House of Cominons to exert any influence on the coal...

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- 'TILE "BRITISH ASSOCIATION

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, v , 033r. P4OFESSOR JULIAN HUXLEY. -reports of outstanding discoveries were made at No the British Association meeting this year, but their absence vas counterbalanced by the...

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WORKERS AS PARTNERS

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BY W. HOWARD HAZEL.t." I N a recent article in the Spectator several suggestions were made which might improve the relations of capital and labour, and lead to greater...

" TERRIERS" IN TRAINING

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B Y the end of this month or the middle of the next, one hundred thousand lads will have been under arms. Had it not been for the general strike, which led to the cancellation...

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LITERARY COINCIDENCES

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A CORRESPONDENT of a Contemporary, desiring to be informed of the authorship of some lines on " the hollow . sea-shell " which, when held to the ear, " proclaims its stormy...

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THROUGH NORTHERN AUSTRALIA

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o N August 23rd, 1924, we published the diary of two adventurous young men, Mr. Michael Terry and Mr. Richard Yockney, who crossed the . Continent of Australia in a motor car...

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THEOPHRASTUS IN PICCADILLY

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IL—A MAN OF THE INTELLIGENTSIA. " MO know the best of an author," says one of Theophilus Anderson's most famous characters, " read the writings of his _contemporaries. To know...

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• SPEC TABILIA

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WITH the death of John Xavier Merriman them passed the most venerable and picturesque personality in South African politics. Like Cecil Rhodes, Merriman was born in England, but...

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Before going on their holidays readers are advised to place an order for the SPECTATOR. The journal will be forwarded to any address at the following rates :- One Month . . • •...

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THE THEATRE

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The Way You Look At It is a curious piece of work. The title is apt. Your enjoyment or otherwise will quite definitely depend on the way you do look at it. If you are of the...

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CORRESPONDENCE

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A LETTER FROM - THE HAGUE [io the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A Frenchman, who unlike the vast majority Of his countrymen (who believe that Holland is somewhere near...

MUSIC

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BACH'S CANTATAS Diu recent appearance of Dr. Sanford Terry's important work on the sacred and secular cantatas of John Sebastian Bach* raises again that eternal question of...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIE,—It may interest you

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that the late Professor John F. Genung, of Amherst College, 'U.S.A., used to suggest that Lazarus was the author . of the Fourth Gospel and that Jesus deliberately allowed him...

'*:THE FRUITS OF EMPIRE

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Your article, in your issue of June 19th is not so well informed as it might be, and with regard to your " Incredible as the figures...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Sin,—Though not quite a convert to' Mr. W. K. Fleming's theory, it certainly seems to explain,' Or, at least, harmonize with, many minute circumstances of the Fourth Gospel....

LETTERS TO THE EDITOTt .

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WHO WROTE THE FOURTH. GOSPEL i [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—There seems to me to be one insuperable objection to the very attractive and ably argued theory of Mr....

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Srir,—May one be allowed to remind thieve fellow-Christians that there is only one " Messiah " who has no successors ? A " new Christ " is an Anti-Christ, and to go away after...

" A NEW MESSIAH " [To the Editor of the

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SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The account given by your correspondent, " Y." of the little Hindu girl, " Bulbul," who was said to be a reincar- nation of Madame Blavatsky, and to be " The...

WHY ARE THERE STRIKES ?

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Will you allow me the space to put as briefly as I can why there are strikes—and lockouts—and some remedies ? 1. Profound ignorance...

CAN WE THEN BELIEVE ?

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] . SIR,—In your issue of to-day your reviewer discriminates the teaching of history between " that Jesus of Nazareth lived, taught, ministered,...

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FAMILY ALLOWANCES

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Now that the problem of family allowances is to the front in connexion with the coal dispute, I would strongly urge a solution which can...

WHY I 'CEASED TO BE A REVOLUTIONARY

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Swerving from one extreme to another " G. L. G." but illustrates in your issue of July 31st the proverbial swing of the pendulum, and it...

SIGNOR MUSSOLINI AND MR. COOK [To the Editor of the

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SPECTATOR.] SIR,—You allow a place in your paper for this statement by a reviewer : " Here in England we should detest to be led by Il Duce as we would to be governed by Mr....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—In case you have'

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not yet seen the pamphlet entitled An Outline of Practical Eugenic Policy, just issued by the Council of the Eugenics Education Society, I should like to draw your attention to...

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PSYCHOLOGY AND NEURASTHENIA

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The article of " Crusader " on the " Psychology of Neurasthenia " clearly shows the necessity for raising the study of psychological...

POETRY

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THE VIKING (HEXAMETERS.) , OvER the ocean we sail, when it lies as if peaeefully sleeping. Over it too in the storm, 'when the loud-voiced billows are leaping ; Over the sca...

AMERICAN POLITICS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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is plain that one cannot conduct a controversy across the Atlantic, and therefore I must not ask you to give me space for a full reply to my friend Mr. Victor Yarros, of...

CHILDREN'S COUNTRY HOLIDAY-S THE " SPECTATOR " FUND

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SINCE our Fund was closed we have received the following donations from India and elsewhere, which we gratefully acknowledge. We shall be glad if any other readers who are...

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ARE PLANTS NERVOUS ?

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A oaFAT step towards unity of outlook was marked by Claude Bernard's Lecons sur les Phenomenes de la Vie communs aux Animaux et aux Vegetaux (1879). It became clear that plants...

. BOOKS RECOMMENDED

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The Oxford University Press send us the third volume of

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the Wren Society publications, which completes the selections made from Wren's drawings now in St. Paul's Library. These volumes illustrate the growth of St. Paul's in Wren's...

The B.B.C. send us a charming volume which has been

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designed partly as a memento of the recent successful Sunday afternoon broadcasts given by distinguished actors and actresses on Shakespeare's Heroines, and partly as a...

* * * * The Cambridge University Press have republished

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in pamphlet form a recent address given by Lord Ronaldshay on India, which presents a picture of that vast sub-continent, with its vivid social and racial antagonisms and its...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS

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DUn readers will be interested to know that we propose to publish, by arrangement with Messrs. Methuen and Co. who expect publish the book later, seven instalments of the...

" Every table laid for a meal is a confession

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of character," says Clarisse or The Old Cook (Methuen. 5s.). He is dead against second helpings—" the flavour of a stew or grill will not last "—and he quotes Brillat-Savarin, "...

REPORT ON THE COMPETITION

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The Editor offered a prize of £5 for a:suggestion . for a Ne w Competition. . - Oun readers, on the whole, are good, solid, serious people, If we can judge by the entries for...

* * * * Modern Sunlight, mentioned recently in our

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columns, is now a professional medical review called The British Journal of Actino-therapy, under the editorship of Dr. Percy Hall, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. " We are only beginning...

Mr. Eric Parker has compiled a very delightful anthology on

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cricket in Between the Wickets (Philip Allan. 7s. 6d.). How .delicately etched are these few words about the meads at Winchester !—" Grey walls, a Cathedral, a sunlit hill,...

THE NEW COMPETITION

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" Everyone who thinks and feels is apt at times to fall into the state of mind of the Psalmist, and believe that- All.ths earth ie full of darkness and cruel habitations."...

Have you anything to sell ? Readers have an unusuallg

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

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WISDOM GROWN BITTER

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TOWARDS the end of the eighteenth century, Nicolas de Chamfort was in high reputation at the French Court. His most notable gift was for epigrammatic conversation. He was...

THE PAPAL CLAIMS

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Catholicism and Papacy. By M g r. Peter Battifol, D.Litt. (Seadri f t Co... 3s. dd.) . . (Seadri f t Co... 3s. dd.) . . This is the authorized translation, by Fr....

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SOME BOOKS ON THINKING

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Mental Life. By Beatrice Edgell. (Methuen. .7s. 6d.) The Discovery of Intelligence. By Joseph K. Hart. (George The Riddle of Personality. By E. W. MacBride. (Heine- mann. 6s.)...

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THE TRUTH ABOUT SOCIALISM

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Mrs. 'WEBSTER has kept strictly to her subject, which is the Socialist societies with recognized headquarters and published lists of members and her work is indeed a guide book...

A POT POURRI OF' TRAVEL

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Six books on the desert will soon make those regions uncom- fortably popular or vulgarly well known. Indeed, does not a regular motor service already run across the Syrian...

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BYZANTINE ART. By Hayford Peirce and Royall Tyler.

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- (Ernest Berm Limited. 21s. net.) RECENT movements towards severely formal design adapted to the nature of the material used have led to, a widespread aesthetic as well as...

CURRENT LITERATURE

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THE STRENGTH OF ENGLAND. By George F. S. Bould. (Methuen. 8s. 8d. net.) THE STRENGTH OF ENGLAND. By George F. S. Bould. (Methuen. 8s. 8d. net.) LORD HALIFAX'S saying that "...

THE QUARTERLIES

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THE Edinburgh Review opens with an article by Professor Alison Phillips upon " The Declaration of Independence." In America he tells us a myth has grown up round the Declaration...

THE FINE ARTS IN CANADA. By Newton MacTavish , (The MacMillan

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Company of Canada, Limited. 21s. Dell MR. MACTAVISH says that the whole purpose of his book " to make known something about the progress of art, especial the fine art of...

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FLOWER PHANTOMS. By Ronald Fraser. (Cape. 5s.)- r -- A curious tale

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of the hysterical imaginings and experiences of a young girl to whom the vegetable kingdom has a peculiar significance. She is a botanical student at Kew Gardens, where she...

FLY LEAVES. By Mrs. Henry Dudeney. (Collins. 7s. 6d. net.)—These

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eleven stories together take a section across one of the least inspiriting areas of life—that of small cottages, the aged poor, and the bitter longings of the obscure and...

FICTION

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A SON OF THE HOUSE. By A. R. Weekes. (Constable. 7s. 6d.)—This is a novel of a definitely superior order, one which is worth reading seriously and then recommending afterwards....

CARTERET'S CURE. By Richard Keverne. (Constable. 7s. 6d. net.)—Amidst the

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flood of ingenious thrillers which is enlivening this late summer publishing season, it is refreshing to come across a volume in which character drawing plays as much part as...

and exactly as the author describes him. But it is

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a die- concerting and depressing realization.

ORPHEUS ; or THE MUSIC OF THE FUTURE. By W.

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3. Turner. (Regan Paul. 25. 6d.) MR. TURNER is so prodigal with his cheap and generalizing condemnations that we cease to take him seriously after a few pages of his little...

THE LETTER E. By William le Queux. (Cassell. 7s. 6d.)—

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Not one of this author's- most successful attempts at creating tales of mystery. Very little happens during the hero's attempts to save an aristocratic girl from a gang of...

HOLIDAY NOVELS

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Mr. Arthur Mills points out in The Danger Game (Hutchinson', 7s. ed.) the many perils undergone by the landlord class when they try to live as usual in post-War days. The rich...

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COUNTRY -HOUSE -AND -SPORT

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lortE LAND FOR NOTHING. SOMETHING was said in this Place a fortnight ago on the' *abject of land for nothing. You- can buy land, not in one Bounty but many, for less than the...

FINANCE-PUBLIC AND PRIVAT E THE FUTURE OF INDIAN CURRENCY .

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BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. IT is impossible to read the Report, recently published, of the Royal Commission on Indian Currency and Finance without being impressed with the fact that...

A NEW CRICKET RULE.

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An old cricketer of repute visited his son's school last term and discovered that the boys had' been . told and ordered to cover up the wicket with their legs in the case of...

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A MOTOR GATE. - An experiment in devising a substitute for the gate that has to be. opened and shut has been tried recently in many country houses. : The idea is.ingenious and...

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FINANCIAL NOTES

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LARGE GOLD IMPORTS. ALTHOUGH still quiet, there have not been wanting indications during the past week of a little more animation on the Stock Exchange, especially in some of...