18 APRIL 1925

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NEWS OF THE WEEK

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T HE prolonged French crisis is a proof of the extreme difficulties which France has brought upon herself by persistently refusing to perform the commonplace but necessary duty...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY

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MR. BALDWIN: A CHARACTER STUDY I.—THE UNCOMPETITIVE MAN. [COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES BY THE Independent mosT04, ALL BALDWIN is still somewhat of an enigma, per sonal and...

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REVOLUTION OR EVOLUTION?

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T HE results of the Conference in London between representatives of the All-Russian Trade Union Congress and representatives of the General Council of the British Trade Union...

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THE FACTS ABOUT GERMAN SHIPBUILDING

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FROM A CORRESPONDENT IN BERLIN. W HEN the Furness, Withy Line gave the order for five fast motor-ships of 10,000 tons dead weight s each to the Deutsche Werft, there was as...

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A PARLIAMENTARY RETROSPECT BY NEW MEMBER.

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O NCE more the curtain has rung down on the Westminster play. The Government has no reason to be dissatisfied with events, for the estimates have met with little opposition, and...

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III NDIENBURG

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0 . ERMANY, in the aftermath of defeat, is now X--X reaching the stage at which France elected the monarchist, General MacMalion, President of the Republic. But the MaeMahons,...

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SPLENDOURS AND MISERIES OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES

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I.—THE MAN IN THE BLACK COAT WITH THE WHITE SEAMS. BY GERTRUDE KINGSTON. If ever the Middle Classes aro extinguished England— according to a familiar saying—will have...

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A DUBLIN HOUSING SCHEME.

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FROM AN IRISII CORRESPONDENT. D URING the past year an attack has been made on the Dublin housing problem which is doubly interesting—first, because the magnitude of the...

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FLOWERS FOR LONDON

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Our contributor suggests the beautifying of our London streets by the cultivation of flowers and trees and developing the " squares" of the West End as public gardens.—En....

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ARCHITECTURAL' NOTES

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THE PANAMA CANAL IT may reasonably be asked what connexion there can be between the Panama Canal and architecture. The answer is that, while, unfortunately, in this country...

CINEMA NOTES

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Two new American films remind one that it is useless to aim high with one's eyes shut. The Lover of Camille, intended to be a distinctive film, lacks even the constructive skill...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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LORD OLIVIER AND BENGAL: A CORRECTION [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—One of the most interesting parts of the experience of Ministerial office to a man of official...

ZIONISM AND TIIE ARABS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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SIR,—Your leading article on Lord Balfour's visit to Palestine is written in the traditional style of the Spectator of fair play to everybody. There are only one or two...

COMMERCE AND ART: A BANK'S EXAMPLE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Sus,--In several articles in the Spectator recently I have been much interested to find references to the changing position of the artist in our social structure. It is...

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OUR PRISON SYSTEM [To the Editor of The SPECTATOR.] SIR,—ID

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the refreshing letter by Dr. Hunt in your issue of February 14th under the above heading, there was one clause that seemed to indicate the direction towards a better solution of...

SUBSIDIZED WAGES

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Your article on subsidized wages is interesting but not convincing. Surely in the present deplorable state of trade and unemployment the...

A SECRET BALLOT FOR THE TRADE UNIONS

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,--No one is a greater admirer or upholder than I am of the principle of Trade Unionism as it was at the first established for the benefit...

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LABOUR JOURNALISTS

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sife—You speak in your note on the Daily Herald and Mrs. Lloyd George's pearl necklace of "professing Socialists - who do extraordinarily...

WHOLEMEAL AND OTHER BREAD

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—A statement in a letter by Mr. Stokes in your issue of April 11th, under the above heading, should not go unchallenged. He says "When...

BRITISH BEET SUGAR

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Referring to the letter published . in your issue of March 21st, I am able to assure Mr. Pennington that he need have no apprehension as...

THE PROBLEM OF ANGLO-CATHOLICISM

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, — I, like most ordinary citizens, am not interested in the interminable conflict of opinions in the Anglican Church ; but with your...

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DYARCHY UPON ITS TRIAL [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Sut,—The recently issued Report of the Committee appointed in India to investigate the working of Dyarchy is certainly a very startling pronouncement. There is naturally a...

VITALISM RESTATED [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut,—There has

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always been a fundamental ambiguity in Bergson's account of matter. It is, in substance, not one account but two. This is convenient for Bergson's apologists, since it enables...

THE PASSING OF THE SMOCK [To the Editor of the

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SPECTATOR.] Sta,—In a kindly notice of my book, How to Enjoy the Countryside (a title criticized, perhaps justly, as both too didactic and too moderate, though unavoidable, as...

LANDOR'S IANTHE "—AN UNPUBLISHED POEM [To the Editor of the

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SPECTATOR.] SIR,—An autograph letter has been shown to me in which Walter Savage Landor transcribed for a sister's edification a poem written, he said, "when I first had...

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GENTLY WITH SOHO

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,--The new Westminster Housin g Committee are anxious to clear out the slums in their city, and ri g htly so. They have their eye...

THE OPEN SPACES BILL

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut,—By an unfortunate oversi g ht reference to the Open Spaces Bill Committee, w hose Bill is comin g before the House of Commons very...

AUTUMN AND SPRING CATS

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] was much interested to read the . letter of Admiral Dumas in the Spectator for April 4th last, under the title "Sprin g and Autumn Cats." The...

EPITAPHS

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR ,--Why speak so scornfully of punnin g epitaphs? They were. g ood enou g h for Shakespeare, as his verses on Sir Thomas Stanley in Ton ga...

EXTRACT FROM LETTER

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RADIUM AND CANCER. --Dr. Alexander Fleck, 26 Manor House Road, Newcastle-on-Tyne, writes: The para g raph in the "News of the Week" columns of the current Spectator deali ng...

POETRY

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GRAVEYARD -AMONG MOUNTAINS SEF. the mountai n people fallen asleep in the valley ; Here are old wives who have laid their knittin g by, And shepherd s who need sh a de th e ir...

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BOOKS OF THE MOMENT

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MEMORIES OF THE - THEATRE tmpty Chairs. By Squire Bancroft. (Murray. 1(s. Gd.) 4.... , Player Under Three Reigns. By Sir Johnston ForbesRobertson. (Fisher Unwin. 21s.) IT is...

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THE

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RTH COMPETITION THE EDITOR OFFERS A PRIZE OF £.5 FOR A NEW NURSERY RHYME. At:AIN there are no restrictions upon length or form ; but again we ask to be mercifully treated....

RULES FOR COMPETITORS

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1. All entries must be received on or before Friday, May 1st. 2. Competitors may sendin as many entries as they wish, but each entry must be accompanied by one of the coupons...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS

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MRS. MONTEITH ERSKINE'S book, Sex at Choice, is at last published (Christophers). Readers of the' Spectator will remember that Mrs. Erskine advanced a theory of the conception...

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LIVING LATIN

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An Anthology of Medieval Latin. By Stephen Gaselee. (Macmillan. 7s. 6d. net.) THOSE who, like Lord Lumpington in Friendship's Garland, "followed -the grand, old, fortifying,...

ETON IN PROSE AND VERSE

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Fifty Years of Eton in Prose and Verse. By Hugh Maenaghten. (Allen and Unwin. 7s. Gd. net.) Time Vice-Provost has collected a volume of short works written and for the most...

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SPRING-CLEANING

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Charles Dickens and Other Victorians. By "Q." (Cambridge University Press. 10s. 6d.) WHEN Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch entered upon his labours as lecturer at Cambridge, how the...

A GOLFING PHILOSOPHER

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J. H. Taylor; or, the Inside of a Week. By Harold Begbie. (Mills and Boon. 4s.) WITH vivacious and engaging ingenuousness Mr. Begbie has given us the whole philosophy of a...

CURRENT LITERATURE

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THE SPECKLED DOMES. By Gerard Shelley. (Duckworth. 15a.) MR. SHELLEY'S " Episodes of an Englishman's life in Russia" make lively and pleasant—if at times rather...

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FICTION

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WEST. By Brylier. (Jonathan Cape. 4s. 6d. net.) Tins is an account of a visit to America undertaken by Nancy, a girl with high ideals, who thinks that she will find . Utopia in...

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FINANCE-PUBLIC AND PRIVATE

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BUDGET UNCERTAINTIES BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. NEITHER the financial nor the political situation in France appears to have improved during the past week. During that time we have...

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STRIKING SUCCESS OF THE GALTON SYSTEM

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" Truly a Master Course "—A Dus:ncss alector. BUSINESS MEN AND CLERKS, LEGAL PRACTITIONERS, DOCTORS, GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, SECRETARIES, MANUFACTURERS, JOURNALISTS, AND...

Why People Fail

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Failure is, in the majority of cases, due to an inability to recognize possibilities and one's own potentialities. When these faults have been corrected, the future presents a...

" Post-War " Troubles

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The truth is that the Galton System is proving itself to be a wonderful tonic and stimulant to what we may call the " post-war " mind. Consciously or unconsciously, there is...

A Great Business Asset 'As a business asset, of course,

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the study of the Galton System is incalculable. The Course begins first by enabling a man to realize himself: it shows him what he is and what he may become. It arouses his...

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FINANCIAL NOTES

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With his recent election to the Directorate Sir Gordon Nairne's retirement from the position of Comptroller of the Bank of England followed as a matter of course. It is with...

A GREAT OPPORTUNITY.

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At the time when Mr. Winston Churchill was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer most people recognized that the task before him was a formidable one, but the City was not...

EXPENDITURE PER CAPITA.

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Readers of this column will, I doubt not, have .seen that reply and will remember that the rate of expenditure per head of the population now works out at £18 3s. 61d.,...