A T last we have reached a point where it is possible to say, without the dreadful misgiving that one is exaggerating, that there are signs of general improvement —in...

view of many highly. reputable people there is room for rejoicing as well as for remembering the dead on Armistice Day. Nevertheless, the nation on the whole is spontaneously...

Optimism . and the unemployment figures, but -first let us turn to Mr. Baldwin's speech at Aberdeen on Thursday, November 5th, and to his Rectorial Address at Edinburgh on the...

ot thrift. The British people as a whole were not wasting their savings. This year War Saving Certificates had been selling at- the rate of a million a week, and each week there...

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Those who refrain from waste and put their money into industry are the real benefactors of the country. Our readers. will _remember how often we have expressed the opinion of...

tically. He invited all who had the privilege of a University education to take their part in public affairs. Some of them would go forth as humanists to whom the latest...

of money by December, M. PainleN4 has on -his bands the much larger task of providing a sinking fund for the repayment of loans. He proposes a poll tax of twenty francs upon...

took for his subject truth, with particular reference to truth in politics. He described the excep- tional temptations which beset politicians to overstate, and he showed that...

the Prime Minister did not deal in his speech with the great subject of Locamo, but gracefully left it 'entirely to Mr. Austen Chamberlain. Mr. Chamberlain said That the cause...

the other Guildhall speeches we must mention Lord Beatty's. He said that the full activities of the Rosyth and Pembroke docks were entirely unnecessary. We are very glad to have...

decrease of 24696. In five weeks the total has dropped by 128,762, and. it is now lower than the con'es- - ponding total of last year by 20,823. The Morning Post of Wednesday...

Socialists decided, after all, provisionally to support him. He is; - - first of all, under an obligation to find the money to meet the payments due on internal debt at the...

months by seaplane, which the Marchese de Pinedo has just accomplished, is perhaps the most remarkable in the history of flying. The airman was accompanied by only one mechanic,...

against greater liberties than the present licensing laws allow for the consumption of intoxicants in Clubs. Those who on Friday, November 6th, urged on behalf of temperance...

capital levy, such as a tax of one and a half times the net annual income from house property or land ; a tax of fifteen per cent. Of the annual income derived from in- vestment...

plainly inspired by General Sarrail before he left Syria, and will probably be the basis of the account that he is to render to the Chamber in Committee on November. 20th. It...

the promin- mit advocate, for an alliance of the principal Trade Unions, was discussed at a conference of the Executive last week. The delegates of the National Union of...

who is known to British audiences as an eloquent speaker and advocate of the League of Nations, has been appointed High Commissioner in Syria in succession to General Sarrail,...

to make a report upon the possibility of widening Waterloo Bridge, and, if he could, to make designs for carrying overhanging footways on corbels. His report was published in...

cent. on October 1st, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1001: on Thursday week 99x.d. ; a year ago 101x.d., Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 861 ; on...

THE ITALIAN PLOT IT is almost impossible to arrive at the truth about the plot to assassinate Signor Mussolini. It may have been a big affair aiming at nothing less than the...

of us who know that the Unionist Party could easily be the saviour of the country when the principles of our party are presented, in a wrong light and the party is made to...

[We do not publish these articles in the hope, or even with the desire, that our readers will agree with all that " Economist " says. it is certain, however, that what is needed...

of the word "new," when used of human institutions, is that we never know when to stop using it. When St. Mary's College was founded at Oxford in the fourteenth century men fell...

Association. Two numbers of this interesting paper have been sent Us by its Editor, Captain J. W. Petavel, who is a lecturer at the Calcutta University: Captain Petavel sent us...

By S. E. MORISON. Harm-worth Professor of American History at Oxford, • 1922-25. H.—.-PROFESSORS, LIBRARIES, AND THE STUDY OF HISTORY. "They are not long, the day of wine...

W ITHIN the last six months the authorities at Wormwood Scrubs Prison have made a special attempt to treat prisoners as rational beings, and not as automatons. It may be said...

i T was on November 14th, 1918, that the Czechoslovak National Assembly, meeting in Prague, formally declared the Czechoslovak State a Republic, with Thomas Garigue Masaryk,...

TI1HIS article is not written for millionaires, but there is no reason why they should not have something before they pass on to the next, .so I offer them, from my Mottoes for...

i T is said that the new Civic Guard in the Free State -1-• arc giving more attention than the old Constabulary did to fish preservation. That might well be, for, for some...

OF BRITISH FILMS QurrE suddenly, no one exactly knows why, the powers that be in F.ngland have realized the importance of the cinema. The immediate result is that everyone now...

A LETTER FROM PRAGUE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In writing from Prague at the time of the most mellow autumn colouring, my thoughts can hardly fail to be of the...

THI1 RISKS OF WINTER DRIVING MoToancc is no longer a summer pastime, and the days are happily gone for ever when an owner-driver puts away his car on the approach of winter,...

THE MEDICAL PROFESSION AND THE PUBLIC [To the Editor of the SrEeveroa.1 Sin,—Your leader is eminently reasonable and fair, but I think it misses some points to which I would,...

the SPECTATOR, costing only 30s., makes an ideal present for an absent friend. For this sum the paper will be forwarded to any address in the world. Apply Manager, the SPEC-...

Griffiths' defence of the action of the G.M.C. in Dr. Axham's case, and! trust you, Sir, will permit me to make a few comments upon it. First of all I should like to remind Dr....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] am afraid that you would hardly bear with me if I accepted Mr. Shaw's invitation and attempted to construct a tariff setting out the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Congratulations on your first article to-day. May I add that Taylor's The Principles of Scientific Management was the gospel of high...

Sut,—In your admirable and discriminating article on Dr. Axham's case you write, "If Dr. Axham is restored would not his restoration amount to an admission that after all the...

of Capitalism," in Spectator of November 7th, sounds very nice, only it ignores, I am afraid wilfully, the main difficulty in applying it to England— namely, that the United...

SPECTATOR.] . Sin,-- 7 -May I bring to the notice of your readers the programme . . _ . . of a Conference on Social Insurance Which is being organized . _ under the auspices...

of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Twice the Spectator has published reports from me of the traffic in horses for foreign butchery ; and subsequent inveitigation confirmed my ....

SPECTATOR.] Sin,--No one like - thyself who has long profited by Mr. T. C. Hoisfall's teaching and who is well acquainted with his magnificent. record as an enlightened reformer...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SM,—I notice the amazing prosperity, the hard work and working-class contentment in the U.S.A., commented on everywhere in the newspapers. In...

SPECTATOR.] Sirt,—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, having very neatly and politely called me another, I must conclude that he misunderstood me, in my review of Man's Survival after...

Slat,- --With reference to the correspondence on the above in your issue of October 31st, a theory is put forward that walking in circles may be due ton bias caused by people...

in taste, yet -t,he character of works of . fiction (which are by far the most in demand, chiefly by women) . has undoubtedly altered. Whereas before the War novels dealing with...

the letter on walking in circles; which appeared in your issue of October 31st, although I write with my right hand and throw with my left, I find it easier, as a cyclist, to...

the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Your correspondent, Mr. G. Wright, should have Carried the tale of the Guernsey Note issue further. There was, later, much difficulty in keeping a note...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,— -.As President of the Printers' Pension Corporation, I should like an opportunity of asking for the support of the readers of the...

SPECTATOR.] Sla,---4n accordance with the wishes of the late Mr. John Lane as expressed in his will, and with the concurrence of his executors, I am preparing to write the story...

of the SPECTATOR.] Sta, 7 —Calverley's "Ode to Tobacco" was first published in Verses and Translations in 1861 or 1862. The second edition in the Bodleian is 1862. "Mr....

. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stre,—A fey/ of Sir Henry Wood's friends have got together a small Sum "Of money which they propose to ask him to accept as a personal...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--In your article of October 24th on Housing you "wonder that Scotland lags behind," so I venture to inform you of the reason why she does...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] ' - have read •the - Article - and- letters,-you have 'published On the subject of a grey squirrel imported -from 'Canada, Which is -...

MIRAGE I SAW a man on a horse Riding against the sun. " Halo! Don Cossack ! " I cried. He shouted, " ilallo , my son!" The Caspian Sea shimmered ; The Kazak tents shone...

• BETTING NEWS - Sin,—There are weighty objections to a direct tax on betting'i which do not hold against indirect taxes ; we already have one at least in the...

the SPECTATOR.] &IL—Any golfer who has been to Shillong (Assam) will confirm Mr. Lewis Davies' story. The crows - there have for years carried off balls by' the dozen, a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Siri,=I feel that you would like me to point out an error on page 840 of your issue of the 7th inst. In- an Article in which you are reviewing...

AN American reader of the Spectator, Mr. Gabriel Wells, has generously offered a prize of £100 for an essay on " Unemployment : Its Cause and Remedy." The' maximum length of an...

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MESSRS. CONSTABLE have published Mr. Nigel Playfair's Story of the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. It is a most inviting looking book—the print and make up are more than usually...

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Tins is a capital book. Captain Weldon is of the lucky people who got into a sideshow during the War, which, though risky enough for the most exacting, had always the element of...

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mechanic-lithographer with ambitions to be an artist falls in love with a country_ inn-keeper's daughter and takes her back to the difficult regions of London's art colony. The...

freshly but over-romantically treated by an American writer. Sacred and profane love in the person of a rather too dazzling woman musician and a hum-, drum wife strive for the...

$EVERAL of the scholarly papers in this handsOme volume: add to what is known of the diarist. Mr. W. H. Whitear has identified the site of Pepys' birthplace in Salisbury' Court,...

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book Mr. Klein- records memories of musical and dramatic life during the past fifty years. With considerable skill he has avoided what might have been irrelevant personal...

FOREIGN EXCHANGE. A VOLUME which will appeal both to the practical banker and the financial student is a volume entitled The Foreign -Exchange Market, by H. F. R. Miller,...

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Aurnouun points like the removal of the embargo on- foreign loans referred to eisetvhere, and a feeling of hopefulness with regard to the - international 'political outlook,...

I do not know whether the very able address recently delivered by Mr. Frederick Hyde, Joint Managing Director of the Midland Bank, to the Manchester and District Bankers'...

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