17 JULY 1926

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NEWS OF THE WEEK

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[PARLIAMENT during the past week made progress in legislation, but the House of Commons did not advance its reputation as a debating assembly. Obstruction was attempted, and...

The offers of the colliery owners generally include wages for

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six months at the rates prevailing last April. But they are not wholly uniform, and so show a tendency of the owners to revert to " district " scales rather than a national...

The passage of the Act does not justify any great

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hopes of an approaching end of the coal stoppage. The Government have never claimed that it was more than the removal of what might be an obstacle. It was much misrepresented in...

• The country had a few days' respite from Mr.

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Cook's speeches here while he was in Berlin meeting the repre- sentatives of, it is reported, the Russian miners, i.e., not of the Soviet Government. Verbose declarations have ....

The National Union of Railwaymen has decided emphatically not to

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impede the movement of coal, and thus will help the Government (who are facilitating the importation of Westphalian, Silesian and other coal) to keep transport and factories at...

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highly alarming they are in no worse position than a

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week ago. M. Briand must be oppressed by the uncertainties of the political parties ; M. Caillaux by the foreign debts and the maturing bonds and loans at home. But he has...

On Monday last the Commons devoted their time to Mr.

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Henderson's motion on the subject of Ministers' interests in companies that contract with the Govern- ment, and to Lord Hugh Cecil's amendment. At the end of the debate there...

General Gomes da Costa has not been able for long

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to ride the storm which he started with the bloodless military revolution of six weeks ago. There was dissatisfaction in the army, and General Carmona, who was a member of the...

The beginning of the month saw the lifting of the

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League of Nations' financial control from Austria and Hungary. This is a point of importance in the history of those countries, of the rest of Europe in relation to them, and of...

On Monday M. Caillaux flew to London and discussed with

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the Chancellor of the Exchequer the conditions of the repayment of the. French war debts, and came to an agreement, which Mr. Churchill announced in the House of Commons on...

On Tuesday the Minister of Health reported to • the

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House upon the work of his Department which is multi- farious and vast. The country really has got on with its housing problem. We will not allow that private enterprise has...

On Friday, July 9th, the Ministry of Health's Defaulting Guardians

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Bill was read a third time, after application of the closure, in a somewhat better temper than had been displayed earlier. Though in itself this was satis- factory, it gave...

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We desire to offer our welcome to the representatives of

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over fifty Universities of the Empire who are gathered at home for a Congress at Cambridge, as they were five years ago at Oxford. They will discuss how best to co-operate in...

We greatly regret to record a disastrous explosion which on

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Saturday last destroyed the United States Navy's ammunition depot at Lake Denmark, New Jersey. The recent heat wave there culminated in a violent thunderstorm, and a magazine of...

The sudden death of Miss Gertrude Bell in her beloved

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Baghdad will come as a shock to many, and not least to those who have read her contributions to the Spectator. We deeply sympathize with Sir Hugh Bell, who lately lost his...

Lord Clarendon, Under-Secretary for the Dominions, and Chairman-of the Oversea

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Settlement Committee, has gone to Canada, which he already knows well as he farmed there for some years. With him is Mr. Terence Macnaghten, of the Colonial Office, who has been...

The Test Match at Leeds ended in another draw after

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three days' play, as was to be expected. Of old-estab- lished contests Cambridge won the University Cricket Match and deserved to, as they were a slightly better all- round...

An interesting White Paper has been issued dealing with the

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demand of five of the six Australian States— Victoria stands out—that in future State Governors should be Australians. The Labour Premiers who make the demand point out that...

Close upon the celebrations of the sixth centenary of Oriel

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have followed like celebrations at Cambridge where Clare has reached the same venerable age. We offer our congratulations and good wishes to both Colleges and to the...

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 100 § ; on Wednesday week 100# ; a year ago 100k. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 861 ; on Wednesday...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY

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THE CRISIS AND THE ROYAL COMMISSION T HE evils due to the coal stoppage are far greater than is realized by the country at large. Many people seem to think that you have only...

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THE USELESSNESS OF REVOLUTION

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MR. NORMAN ANGELL has written a book for -■3 1 - which we have been waiting. Must Britain Travel the Moscow Road.? (Noel Douglas, 38 Great Ormond Street, W. 5s. net) is the best...

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LONDON SQUARES IN SUMMER TIME

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T HE time has come to return to an argument which must not be allowed to become a hardy annual for the silly season, since it involves vital issues for our country in its...

THE WEEK IN PARLIAMENT

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BY NEW MEMBER. -F AST week tempers rose to a dangerously high pitch. Unionist back-benchers, to whom not the slightest licence is ever permitted, became increasingly incensed...

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A VISIT TO RUSSIA

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(Mr. Robert Boothby, the Unionist member for East Aberdeen. shire, visited Russia with three other Unionist M.P.'s. They spent part of April and May, 1926, in Moscow and...

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A SPECIMEN DAY

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BY A WOMAN OF LEISURE. [In response to requests we have decided to publish a few of two articles, describing a characteristic day's work or experience, whick were sent in for a...

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AMERICAN WOMEN AS MOTOR DRIVERS

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w Ho is the better driver of an automobile, man or woman ? Popular opinion immediately answers, " Man, of course ! " Recent scientific experiments, however, testing the...

Subscribers having anything to sell, or professional services to offer,

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are invited to bring their announcements to the notice of the many thousands of readers of the SPECTATOR, through the classified Advertisement Columns. Particulars are given on...

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SPECTABILIA

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LORD MONTAGU OF BEAULIEU has written in the Sunday Tithes a valuable article on the " Where to Park " prob- lem. If the number of motor-users continues to grow, as it has during...

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THE THEATRE

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THE FUTURE OF MR. NOVELLO r DOWN HILL." BY DAVID L'ESTRANGE—QUEEN'S THEATRE.] EVERY well-informed person on the subject of the theatre knows that from time to time Mr. Ivor...

DIAGHILEFF BALLET

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THE SAT1E FESTIVAL THE Erik Satie Festival at His Majesty's Theatre last week consisted of the two ballets Parade (first performed nine years ago) and Jack in the Box (for the...

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

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THE CINEMA

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BACK TO SIMPLICITY A DEAD period for films seems to come every summer : no doubt because cinema folks contend that, as people do not go to the pictures so much in the hot days,...

CORRESPONDENCE

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A LETTER FROM BELGRADE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Belgrade is now above all things a town of transition, where the old and the new stand side by side and blend...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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WHY SOCIALISM ? [To the Editor of the SPEaraTon.] Sm,—Assuming that Mr. John Charles Simpson's letter expresses not merely a literary pose, it is so delightfully naif that it...

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TRADE UNIONS AND THE LAW

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In the article on the settlement of the general strike, in your issue of May 22nd, you point out that it is to be hoped that as a...

ON ADMIRING AMERICA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR,] Sin,—By

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his lively article in your issue of April 17th, Mr. Yeats-Brown wants to stimulate us and in this endeavour contrasts the enthusiasm for doing, creating and money making of the...

ON HATING AMERICA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] regret

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that the exigepeles of space necessitated the curtailment of " Anglo-Canadian's " letter in the Spectator of April 17th ; I could have read a yard of it with pleasure ; I hope...

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BOOKMAKERS' CIRCULARS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Sin,—As one of your subscribers who has been very interested in the course you have advocated on the Betting Tax, I write to bring to your notice a new procedure by a betting...

NEGROES IN BRITISH PORTS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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SIRS I have read with interest the article on " Negroes in British Ports," by " Agatha Pemba," and would like to ask your correspondent whether she has considered the great...

THE " NEW MESSIAH " [To the Editor of the

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SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As I feel sure that you would not knowingly allow incorrect damaging accounts to be circulated through the medium of your widely read and influential journal, I...

LONDON SQUARES IN SUMMER TIME [To the Editor of the

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SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A year ago you published (the Spectator, July 4th, 1925) a letter from five associations, including the Sunlight League, urging the use of the London Squares...

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THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE FOURTH GOSPEL

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Your reviewer considers that Lazarus " exposed himself freely in public both before and after the statement (in St. John xii. 9-11) at the...

CROSSES IN RUSSIA

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,- -As a comparatively recent visitor to Russia, I was deeply interested in Mr. Boothby's article, " An Impression of Moscow." I am glad...

A RACIAL DANGER

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Your correspondent, Mr. Knowles Stansfield, says that I " obviously have in mind a relatively few of the feeble-minded." He is mistaken :...

MERCER AND MERCERIZATION

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—One of your correspondents states that " Mercer was not the discoverer of Mercerizing." Is this positive assertion correct ? I have in my...

OIL FROM COAL

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[To the Editor of the SrEcraTon.] Sin,--Your correspondent Mr. Ernest Hill is right in pointing out the difficulties of this process, now being much talked of as a remedy for...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR] Sin,—May I ask if

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you will kindly allow space for this letter in which I wish (1) to thank most gratefully the kind, unknown sender of the Spectator, and (2) to notify the change of postal...

THE BRITISH_ INDUSTRIES FAIR [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Stn,--Critics of the Government's handling of the coal situation protest that too much attention is being directed to the production of coal as against the marketing of that...

HOLIDAY PLAY CENTRES [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Sia,—As Chairman of the Evening Play Centres Committee, may I inform your readers that we arranged with the London County Council to open nineteen of the school playgrounds...

STANNINGTON CHILDREN'S SANATORIUM [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—"

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Crusader " " hopes that a generous provision of such lamps (artificial sunlight) will be made in Stannington and that they will be extensively used." As these lamps have for...

THE BOYS' BRIGADE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—H . R.H.

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The Prince of Wales, at the Annual Demonstra- tion of the Boys' Brigade, said " The most important members of the community are the Boys, not only for the future of this Nation,...

TWO REQUESTS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,---I dislike

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asking for space in your weekly, but I should be most grateful - if the person who posts me. the Spectator each week from Burnley- would communicate with me.—

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EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS SMOKE ABATEMENT BILL.

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MR. WILLIAM W. Woon, jun. (Sandygate Lodge, Sheffield), writes : "Anyone not engaged in industry might imagine from reading • Crusader's' article that in the first place the...

POETRY

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TRIBUTE You took me to your noble heart, England, England ! You made me feel myself a part Of England, England. You yielded me your winsome lanes, Your meadows furred with...

.cHILDREN'S COUNTRY HOLIDAYS : THE " SPECTATOR " FUND A

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FURTHER sum of £118 19s. 10d. has been received for the Children's Country Holiday Fund during the week, making the total to date £315 ls. 10d. If the readers of the Spectator...

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A BOOK OF THE MOMENT

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WALT WHITMAN [COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York Times.] I HOPE every lover of poetry, wherever the English language is revered, will read this...

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Each-new book on tennis seems better than the last. Major

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J. -C. • S.- Bendel', who is an instructor in Cannes and London, has written - in Lawn Tennis• (Cassell, 7s: 6d.) a really very useful- exposition of the game. ' LtiWn tennis-...

Among recent volumes of poetry received we would mention-

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Mr. Wilfrid_ Thorley's charmingly bound and well.printed Bouquet from France (Harrap. 7s. 6d.). Mr. Thorley's translations of Verlaine, Jean Richepin and Albert Samain are...

Miss Evelyn Underhill's, devoted readers, amongst whom we nunther ourselves,

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will open her new small book Concerning the Inner Life (Methuen. 2s.) with eagerness and they will not be disappointed A the contents. We hope to review the book shortly.

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An interesting and important pamphlet has been issued by a committee of thirteen, whose names are warrant of the importance of The Facts of . .Industry (Macmillan. ls.). The...

THE CHURCH AND THE TRUTH

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The Dynamics of Religion. By J. M. Robertson. (Watts and Co. 78. 6d. net.) . In Jacob Boehme's School. By Harold W. Shepheard. (Dent. 3s. 6(1. net.) THE dynamics of religion...

Crime and Custom in Savage Society (Kegan Paul. 5s.) looks

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an interesting' book; but even the vividest of tragedies among passionate savages, such as the man who married-his cousin, was accused of incest by-a rival-, •and thereupon com-...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS

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The Life of Jesus Christ, by Dr. J. Walter Harding (Bowe's, Cambridge, 3s.), is a unified gospel given in the words of the Evangelists and telling the complete story of Christ...

THE COMPETITION

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The Editor offers a prize of £5 for a suggestion for a new . competition. THERE is one thing in particular on which we should like to know our readers' opinion. We have tried...

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THE DECLINE OF THE WEST

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ME scale of this book is truly Teutonic ; in scope and depth, and, we may add, in obscurity ; it is in the direct line of descent from the works of such men as Goethe and Hegel,...

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SOME RECENT BOOKS ON FINANCE

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ALTHOUGH primarily intended for the use of American investors and economists, American Foreign Investments, by Robert W. Dunn, will appeal to a larger circle. The Great War...

A HUMANE MAGISTRATE

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" CURE rather than punishment is the fundamental object in the treatment of delinquent children." This wise and humane conclusion by Mr. Clarke Hall, the well-known Magistrate...

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OPHIR AND BEYOND

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The Making of Rhodesia. By Hugh Marshall Hole, C.M.G. (Macmillan. ltts.) Tnis is a book we have long been waiting for—a connected and related account of the occupation and...

GLIMPSES OF EOTHEN

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Constantinople. By George Young. (Methuen. 12s. 6d.) Beyond the Bosphorus cannot be recommended either to the serious student or to those who read for amusement. Much of it is...

THREE DIPLOMATS

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The Romantic Diplomat—Talleyrand—Metternicii-- Chateaubriand. By Maurice Paloologue. Translated by Arthur Chambers. (Hutchinson. 12s. 6d. ) FRENCHMEN are very good at the...

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" CORNWALL is the land of echoes ; spirit echoes

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; echoes of the past." In the pages of this new book by Miss Rogers .these echoes can be heard. The author gives many impres- sions of the strange magic of Cornwall and of the...

THE VENTURE BOOK. By Elinor Mordaunt. (The Bodley Head. 15s.)

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THE touchstone of the quality of travel for Mrs. Elinor Mordaunt (better known as a novelist) is, " Was it won- derful ? " and not " Was it comfortable ? " :- " All is not goldo...

TRAVEL BOOKS

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EVERY thoughtful visitor to the Isle of Man should read Miss Herbert's charming book, which, we are glad to see, has been reprinted in a cheaper form, with coloured drawings by...

SOME REFERENCE BOOKS

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Baedeker's Rhine, 1926 (Fisher Unwin, 15s.), with its one hundred and two maps and plans, is an almost necessary part of the luggage of every intelligent traveller who visits...

How to Write and Sell Short Stories. By R. F.

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Foster. (Allen and Unwin. 2s.) A clever booklet. Chapters on plot, structure, and dialogue are excellent, also the advice on marketing short stories, and the author really knows...

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CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN LITERATURE. By Prince D. S. lflirsky. (Routledge. 12s.

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6d. net.) Tins manual is copious and comprehensive ; an excellently detailed guide through a profusion of talent. Russian literature as a whole seems to Western eyes to be on a...

CURRENT LITERATURE

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FUGLEMAN THE FOXHOUND. By Harding Cox. (The Bodley Head. 7s. 6d.) Fugleman the Foxhound in writing his autobiography is careful to impress upon his readers that he is a hound...

MANTRAP. By Sinclair Lewis. (Cape. 7s. 6d. net.)— It was

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ingenious but wicked of Mr. Lewis to begin his new novel, Mantrap, almost at the end, with a hero and heroine fleeing through the wildest of the wild Canadian North-West, an...

FICTION

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THE INCREDULITY OF FATHER BROWN. By G. K. Chesterton. (Cassell. 7s. 6d. net.)—Father Brown solves his mysteries with very great ease. His simplicity of character gives him a...

To write a charming book upon " economic problems "

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is not an easy task. Mrs. Fisher has, however, accomplished it I Her object is to throw a light upon modern economic problems by describing those which beset this country, after...

ON DOING WHAT ONE LIKES. By Alec Waugh. (Cayme Press.

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7s. 6d. net.) MR. WAyon's essays are graceful and pleasant. He talks of nothing in particular in a most casual way, and it is hard to stop reading. He is perhaps most attractive...

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MIRANDA MASTERS. By John Cournos. (Knopf. 7s. ild,,,net,)-- 7 This curious novel

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which aims at being a very serious one introduces'- sortie - most peculiar people.' The story begins in the early days of the War, and the male charac- ters are all united upon...

BOOKS RECOMMENDED LITERATURE.—Some Fruits of Scotland. By William Penn. Introduction

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by Sir Edmund Gosse. (Constable. 3s. 9d.) Essays of To-day and Yesterday. By C. E. Montague. • _—The same by A. C. Benson. (Harrap. Is. each)—The .Laburnum Branch. By Naomi...

FINANCE --PUBLIC AND PRIVATE

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TIME was when there was no more popular channel for the - investment of British savings than British Railway Priol. Charge stocks. Although Ordinary Stocks were always subject...

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* * * * FRESH CAPITAL ISSUES.

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While the general response to fresh issues of capital continues to be of a satisfactory nature, there is rather a growing tendency for the success of such issues to depend very...

-At the recent meeting of Tamplin and Son's Brewery, the

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Chairman was able to present a very satisfactory position to the shareholders, the gross profit amounting to £175,000 while a dividend was declared on the Ordinary Shares,...

AlthoUgh the Trade Returns for June are the reverse of

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satisfaetqry, the position disclosed is in softie , resppits rather better than might haVe been feared. The imports certainly„ declined by £13,480,000 and exports by...

CONSERVATIVE POLICY JUSTIFIED.

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The conservative policy persistently pursued by the directors of the Australian Estates and Mortgage Company finds justi- fication at the present time, the Report for the past...

Shareholders of the Standard Bank of South Africa are to

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be congratulated upon the excellent results revealed in the last annual Report. Not only has the profit increased from £509,000 to £571,000, but the Report shows an all-round...

FINANCIAL NOTES BUSINESS QUIETER.

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Two circumstances have tended to restrain activity in the investment markets during the last few days. One is the continued stream of new capital issues, referred to in a subse-...