is a mere matter of form ; if the " will to settle " exists, as we believe it does on both sides, only fools would wreck a fair prospect and plunge the country into an...

Bridgeman's object had been to make possible thitk reopening of negotiations between the owners and, the miners. The miners' leaders had, however, declared that they were...

threat of another stoppage in the coal mines is heavy burden of anxiety for the nation to carry at this time, when everyone is hoping against hope for some small revival in...

ter announced that the Government had decided to set up a Court. of Inquiry into the whole dispute. The mem- bers of the Court are Mr. H. P. Macmillan (Chairman), Sir Josiah...

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It will probably be completed some time in August. The actual date agreed upon for completion was August 16th, and we hope that in order not to create fresh causes of suspicion...

a stable and authoritative Government to prevent our meeting, as far as possible, the new spirit in China. Governments count less and waves of popular feeling count more in the...

plunge in deciding not to take part in the Court of Inquiry and not to meet the owners again unless the owners "withdraw their proposals." The demand that the owners should...

year ago by the Labour Government has 'issued a preliminary volume of its Report. It deals with the most important subject of all—the overseas markets. Sir Arthur Balfour, the...

in Morocco. Stalemate seems to exist all along the line, although it is believed that Abdel Krim is preparing a new attack. On the other hand, Spain, supported, it is said, by...

to no new "incidents," but on the other hand it has not disappeared or even, we are told, diminished. This sustained exhibition of national feeling is very significant. As the...

Note about the Security Pact will reach Paris within a few days if' Herr Streseman is not further hindered by the Nationalists and malcontents within his own political...

were not nearly so bad as they have commonly been repre- sented to be, but unhappily the Committee has to point out that it is misleading to reckon up Great Britain's share of...

People," we have gladly noted that the Executive Com- mittee of the large "Second Chamber Committee" of Unionist Members of the House of Commons have by a majority of nineteen...

it is surely this nation, which has long been impelled by the incentive of Free Trade to be watchful and alert and to court favouring breezes. We trust that this country will...

opened the new quarters of the British Medical Association in Tavistock Square. The Associa- tion is a great institution which exercises an increasing influence in our national...

not suffered from the increases in foreign tariffs since 1913. The great growth of wealth in America has caused a demand for luxuries which goes on almost irrespective of price....

the prices we charge have risen so considerably owing to the high costs of production purchasing power abroad has diminished. At the same time local manufactures abroad have...

which ran tentatively last Sunday, had their first real test, and somewhat numerous delays and mis- adventures took place. It is said that these were regarded by the company as...

Bill which Sir Evelyn Cecil introduced in the House of Commons for regulating the publicity given to dis- agreeable details of divorce and other trials. It is satisfactory that...

on March 5th, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Thursday 100* ; on Thursday week 100; a year ago 101*. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Thursday 881; on Thursday week 87k; a...

THE GOVERNMENT'S OFFER TO 1N DIA I N the course of the discussions preceding the Act creating the Dyarchy we advanced the opinion that the whole subject of the Indian...

A STRIKE or lock-out in the coal mining industry is too bad to happen—that is almost the only reason for optimism in the present gloom. Fortunately it is a substantial reason....

T REY are bearing up bravely in Dayton. When - A - they determined to put Mr. John T. Scopes upon his trial for teaching the diabolical doctrine of Evolution they felt that a...

Postal Subscribers changing their address, or who while travelling desire their copies of the paper to be sent to a temporary address, are asked to notify the SPECTATOR Office...

BY A NEW MEMBER. T' debate on unemployment in the mining industry last week did good rather than harm. This was elliefly due to the attitude taken up by Mr. Vernon Hartshorn,...

Bv ST. JOIN ERVINE. T HE problem of traffic—the road, and how to get along it—becomes more, not less, acute, although great efforts are everywhere being made to solve it. And...

T HE armies of science are•closing around that elusive enemy, cancer ; and every day we become more confident of victory. The most spectacular success belongs to Dr. William Gye...

T HE reduction of distance is perhaps the most cone spicuous aim of the work and thought, of to-day. The social philosopher and the man of science alike press eagerly towards...

BY AN APPRECIATIVE MOTHER. "H OW I wish mother would not ask where I have been and what I am going to do. Of course, I never go anywhere or do anything that she would not...

T HOUGH Australian birds are for the most part song- less, the beauty of their plumage gladdens the plains and scrubs of the back country ; and to the lonely bush- man riding...

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UNREAL REALISM MR. GALSWORTHY AND MR. ZANGWILL. IF a stranger, ignorant of Mr. Galsworthy, were to stray by chance into the St. Martin's Theatre for a performance of The Show,...

THE FUNDAMENTALIST TRIAL IN AMERICA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The widespread publicity given by the English papers to the trial of an obscure school teacher in...

CgZANNE AND TECHNIQUE Fos some time past the public has been concerning itself more and more with the technicalities of the painter's craft until now we find that it has become...

Ma. LvrroN STRACHEY'S play, The Son of Heaven, acted at the Scala on Monday afternoon, held and delighted a very distinguished audience, an audience, too, which was very...

Sm,—You must spare me space for one word of thanks for the magnificent opening you have given to the /2,500 campaign for an experimental Homecroft Settlement. We have till...

Sin,—As a parson homecrofter I would emphasize another branch of home crofting. During the winter months on a simple loom and wheel or distaff, all the linen plenishings may be...

Sua,—It is apparent that in all save the more arduous manual occupations British manhood still has some energy left after the day's work (to which the ever-growing devotion to...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—You invite my opinion on a scheme of Insurance pro- posed by Mr. Latham, which, put shortly, is that a voluntary hospital should undertake to provide...

Spectator of July 4th, entitled" The Crisis in the Church," will be read with thankfulness by a very large number of people in all parts of the country, and I do not doubt -that...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A copy of your paper has been sent to me containing an article on the opening of squares during the holidays to the children of the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have read with interest your article on unemployment and coal, and I think possibly it will interest you to see the way in which the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—At a meeting of Parochial Church Councillors called to consider the above subject and to draft a resolution, extracts were read from the...

Sra,—I have seen the correspondence in the Spectator about nursing homes for people of limited means, and was interested to learn that one had lately been opened at Leicester....

Evening Play Centres Committee, dealing annually with some million and a-half attendances of London children for play and occupation in the after-school hours, may I support...

SIR,—F.-M. Lord Plumer deserves our thanks for bringing up once more the subject of the drink problem ; for showing that it is still a serious national evil ; and for urging...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SER,—In your article on "The Slaughter of Animals (J tine 27th) you state that 'prentice hands wield both thel pole-axe and the knife, and that...

Sra,—As the question of opening the London squares is being so sympathetically discussed in your paper, you may like to quote the following passage from Augustus and Julius...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sn't,—In your issue of July 4th an anonymous writer, relying on a quotation from the work of an unnamed author, has— one must assume in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—With reference to the interesting article by J. St. Loe Strachey on " The Drink Question," in your issue of June 27th, may I, please,...

is, I know, read increasingly by women. Your women readers will. therefore, I believe, be interested to learn that a movement is on foot to raise a memorial to Louisa Alcoa in...

your interesting article in to-day's Spectator, entitled "Where to Go for the Summer Holidays," in speaking of Swiss golf clubs, you say that" the oldest established is the...

Sut,—The American workman has been taught that his product pays his wages. The English workman still thinks that the employer pays them. It is up to the English employer to...

looked in vain through your admirable Travel Sup- plement for any mention of a country which deserves to be made better known among discriminating holiday-makers— namely,...

think it will be found that the first reference to the "Five Ails" is contained in John Kay's Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings, published in 1838, where they are set...

are incomplete without the Sixth All : 0. A student with his books. Motto : I learn for

been greatly interested in your recent review and subsequent correspondence on Mr. Granville-Barker's translation of Dr. Knock. I read this French play in the original when it...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of May 2nd, "M. C. M." writes advocating a voluntary fund for the relief of our distress. May I say that I am heartily in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Yesterday I passed through the room containing the Rodin gift of sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and my eyes fell on a plaster...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—The annual appeal which you so kindly allow us to make for the Women's Holiday Fund is this year a very special one. A highly successful...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snt,—In the interesting article on May butterflies, which appeared in your issue of May 23rd last, "E. M. N." writes : "The beautiful little...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Srn,—The Spectator once spoke of Bristol as a "sick city." It is true ; Bristol is indeed sick, smitten with the disease of Vandalism. Private...

readers kindly say where verses are to be found referring to keeping one's troubles to oneself as like a serpent gnawing at one's breast.—! am, Sir, &c., A READER.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Srn,—Two of us would be grateful to any of the readers of the Spectator who could furnish us with the name of the author of the following...

MIDGES RAIDERS from Borderland Outcasts of earth and air Your ways are hard to understand, Your bites are bad to bear. With swollen hands mine eyes I rub, Cursing your god,...

TABLE TALK OF G.B.S. [COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York Times.] Table-Talk of G.B.S. Conversation on Things in General Between Bernard Shaw and his...

is most' discursive : certainly The Conduct of Life (Harrap) is every- where stimulating and refreshing. Another reason why these essays seem to have an especial grace and...

and The Parthenon Sculptures, by P. Johansen (Gyldendal : Constable). The subject is handled capably and there are many illustrations.

Parnell. By St. John Ervine. (Berm. 12s. 6d.) THE series to which Mr. Ervine contributes his biography of Parnell is called Curiosities of Politics, and if Parnell was to be...

gives his own very sound and well-documented counsel in A Text-Book of Oarsmanship (Oxford University Press). The title is very modest for it is at once a history and an...

PROFESSOR FERDINAND OSSENDOWSKI is inexhaustible inf his memories. In his new book Front President to Prison (Allen and Unwin) he records his adventures during the...

THE EDITOR OFFERS A PRIZE OF £5 FOR AN OUTLINE OF HISTORY IN NOT MORE THAN 100 WORDS OF PROSE. BREVITY is dangerous : it may be that the Spartans never understood one another....

Coach and Sedan. (Haslewood Press. is. 6d.) THE small talk of 1636 revolved round the question of street traffic. The coaches made so much noise—you could always break the ice...

The Journal of William Lockerby. Edited by Sir Everard Ira Thurn and Leonard Wharton. (The Hakluyt Society. 31s. 6d.) CIVILIZATION has seldom had missionaries less fitted to...

What I Have Seen and Heard. By J. G. Swift MacNeil. (Arrowsmith. 18s.) What I Have Seen and Heard. By J. G. Swift MacNeil. (Arrowsmith. 18s.) Mn. Swirr M.seNem's book of...

been said lately about W. H. Hudson. Statesmen have turned aside for a moment from the insoluble problems of politics to offer a few words of tribute to the memory of this most...

PROFESSOR MACALISTER, than whom there is no greater living authority on Irish antiquities, says in his preface that Mr. Lawler's work at Nendriun, on Island Mahee in Stmngford...

keeps up its very high reputation as the best book of reference in its sphere. Without increasing to an unwieldy size, it seems to have brought up to date all the old...

Zionism. By Leonard Stein. (Ernest Bann. 6s.) MR. LEONARD STEIN is an English Jew, a late President of the Oxford Union and a barrister ; he went out to France in October,...

of Commerce in London. 15s. net or $4), which seems to contain all the information that can be needed by the many Americans who are happily brought to this country by business...

We have received " Crockford " as usual. (Crock-foes Clerical Directory for 1925. Oxford University Pres.:. 42s. net or 63s. net.) For its particular purpose this fifty-Flth...

an ideal present for an absent friend. For this sum the paper will be forwarded to any address in the world. Apply Manager, the SPECTATOR, 13 York Street, Covent Garden, London,...

a book, which gives a good introductory survey of every branch of Chinese art, which is clear to the general reader, in which each section is contributed by a leading...

(Home University Library. 2s. 6d.) TELE "Home University Library" has made a valuable addition to its series in Biology. There is a wealth of infor- mation in this...

78. 6d.) THE CONTEMPORARY THEATRE, 1924. By James Agate. (Chapman and Hall. 78. 6d.) A BOOK which is merely a collection of reviews that have already appeared in the Sunday...

that she had wanted to call the book Peace and Goodwill, but had been warned that, "so much having been talked about both during the War years, no one could stand their being...

did in Ireland was to establish the Congested Districts Board in 1891, at the instance of Mr. (now Lord) Balfour. The history of that Board, which is now merged in several Free...

PIANO QUINTET MR. SACKVILLE WEST'S very remarkable first novel presents one or two interesting problems. Five people, a woman and four men, make a tour of the Continent as a...

in the last years of the War is strikingly brought out in Miss Caroline Kerr's translation of Mr. Kellermann's novel. The Ninth of November. As fiction it must be owned that the...

Stoughton. 7s. 6d. net.)—It might have been thought that the Peace of Versailles and the disarmament of Germany would have made it impossible for Mr. Phillips Oppenheim to give...

6d. net.)—Lovers of excitement will find more adventures in The Painted Honeymoon than might be expected from its quiet opening in a solicitor's office. The setting of the story...

theme of this remarkable story is an account of a journey made in 1918 from Georgia towards Moscow by some British officers and men who had been attached to Denikin's Army and...

To those accustomed to study the tendencies of markets, 'and also the psychology of the investment and speculative public, it has been clear for some time past that, to use a...

It is only right and fair that this view of the position should be clearly recognized, because in some quarters the present industrial depression has been attributed in very...

LARGE GOLD ARRIVALS. Among the causes contributing to market cheerfulness during the past week must, of course, be included the large influx of gold. On one day alone the Bank...

A further point not without its effect upon the market for gilt-edged securities, and also, to some extent, upon the foreign exchanges, has been the announcement that for the...