T HE coal dispute has entered upon a phase of which the significance cannot be exaggerated. The coal- owners have .bluntly refused to attend to Mr. Churchill's admonitions.;...

earnestly considered request of the Government " that representatives of the Mining Association should attend a three-party conference. It would not, we think, matter under what...

all things for good will and the " fair deal " in industry. He has had to struggle against events and against men, many of them of his own political household, but we are...

War Mr. Lloyd George had to extricate himself from political entanglements which seemed to have him bound hard and fast and from which there Was no visible way of escape....

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in a notable success for the Liberals, Mr. Mackenzie King's party. There is no need for us to express pleasure in the success of one party or in the defeat of another, but we...

opposition to some kind of joint conference is not in all districts quite so stubborn as would appear from the letter of Mr. Evan Williams. We can well believe it. If the Prime...

to be essen- tial at a three-party conference, otherwise the miners would say that they had been given no opportunity of stating their case as a whole. It must not be forgotten...

made in Rome. A young workman threw a bomb at the Duce's motor-car. The window of the car was smashed and the bomb fell in the street, where it shortlY afterWards exploded and...

by Lord Byng's refusal to grant a dissolution to Mr. Mackenzie King dwindled in importance, as did also the Customs scandal which at first the Conservatives used as one of their...

may fairly look for American approval of our action, we must scrupulously avoid any appearance of taking the side of any Chinese General. To do that would be certain to unite...

though the fighting on the Upper Yangtze has not led:to such highly disagreeable results as might have been feared. General Yang Seri, Wu Pei-fu's subordinate, who captured the...

thinking that his original adversary, Wu Pei-fu's Army, is small game he has launched an additional campaign against Sun Chuan- fang, the Shanghai Tuchun. At various places on...

soon joined by thousands of peOple, who paraded the streets shouting " Down with the officers ! Long live the people ! " This meant, of course, that the Greek people are utterly...

satisfactorily from the point of view of those who desire to see sobriety and caution in the management of trade unionism. The General Council ste: dily refused the offer of...

London Tube Railway was opened on Monday. There is now available a direct run of twenty-one and a half miles from Edgware to Morden. One of the new stations is at Merton, famous...

extension the promoters received considerable State help under the Trade Facilities Act ; but hitherto the Tubes had been built entirely out of private money, and it seems that...

Conference at Birmingham. Here we desire to ask a simple question. Mr. Munro, of Glasgow, who spoke at the Conference said that in Glasgow smokeless fuel was being sold in the...

The Government of General Kondylis decided to suppress the Republican Guard. This body, which had an independent existence, not being connected in any way with the Regular Army,...

the formal withdrawal of Spain from the League and the exchange of ratifications of the Locarno Treaties. It had been feared that if Spain withdrew there might by sympathetic...

is difficult to see what France could have done. There are at least a quarter of a million Italians in France, and it would be impossible for France to deprive them of personal...

on December 8rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101 ifd ; on Wednesday week 101 ; a year ago 102. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 85t ; on Wednesday...

T HE first portion of the Kaiser's Autobiography, which we publish in a supplement this week, needs no textual commentary, for in all its obvious aspects it is self-explanatory....

N OTHING is easier, when writing of the Coal Crisis, than to deal condemnation upon all the parties to the dispute, and to show how in turn they have injured the national...

A CANADIAN and an Englishman were discussing in London the future of the Empire, and they agreed that the present situation was not satisfactory, that good intentions were not...

Smoke Abatement League, at Birmingham, last week, emphatically reaffirmed the gravity of the smoke problem. The distinguished meteorologists and medical authorities who...

Of course they are not large enough. Double the space would hardly accommodate the patients who flock to them. While the writer stood there, a patient was being treated in each,...

BY EDWARD BRECK, PRESIDENT OF THE ANTI-STEEL-TRAP LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES. The writer's decision to try to convince his countrymen of the barbarity of the steel-trap was...

A N examination of the geological strata in many widely separated parts of the world has shown that large tracts of the continents have been periodically submerged beneath the...

be superstitious. The day was Friday and the thir- teenth. We were one man short in spite of every effort to fill the vacancy ; the next day the Ocean Race started. In spite of...

Canada, has been celebrating, during the past three weeks, the centenary of its founding. Ottawa, which is one of the most beautiful national capitals in the world, has grown...

Tim Indian problem, as those who know South Africa are aware, has long been a thorn in the flesh in the Tim Indian problem, as those who know South Africa are aware, has long...

the " preservation of places of national beauty is generally recognized nowadays, and in East Kent We owe much to the prevision of the late Lord Milner. But much remains to be...

on sound lines should buy a copy of a remarkable booklet, price one shilling, entitled, Wanted, a Practical Solution to Britain's Industrial Problems. It is a contribution from...

with a further instalment of the ex-Kaiser's autobiography, in advance through your newsagent.

" WHO WAS THIS PEPYS ?" t" AND So To Ban." BY J. B. FAGAN. QUEEN'S THEATRE.) THEY warn us that, when we go to see the dramatic adaptation of a famous novel, our duty is to...

in the Literary Digest, refers to the new method of forwarding fish by post. It has been practised in California for some years, and has been recently introduced into the...

THE THREE CHOIRS FESTIVAL IT is impossible within the confines of this brief notice to give more than a summary account of the two hundred and sixth meeting of the Three Choirs...

"LES MISERABLES" The Soul of Humanity, first portion of a new double-length French film based on Victor Hugo's Les Miserables is to be seen this week and for a while to come at...

A LETTER FROM STOCKHOLM [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.' SIR,—The success of the visit of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess to America has overshadowed all else. A himistry...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Your "News of the Week" remarks on the coal situation are to my mind entirely unjust to the Mining Association and most dangerous in...

WORKERS AND PARTNERS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIE,—The best part of Mr. W. Howard !Hazell's article in your issue of August 14th is its title, but the scheme he...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With reference to letters appearing in the Spectator upon " Litter," may I remind you that about ten years ago you reprinted as a leaflet...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Mrs. Buell's strictures on the letter of " A Parson's Wife " show that she does not realize the conditions of household management in...

in this week's issue a corres- pondent justly remarks that " it is more than piobable that Macaulay had read Volney's Ruins." If so his attention must have been arrested by the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—In your issue of August 28th you publish letters from correspondents on " Literary Coincidences " and perhaps you may find the following...

settled long ago that the father of Macaulay's New Zealander was one of the travellers " From the Blue Mountains, or _Ontario's Lake," who view the desolution of ruined London...

it is curious how good judges will differ as to whether resemblances are merely accidental or otherwise. I have noticed what appears to me at least something more than an...

Sia,—That Macaulay's New Zealander was not a literary coincidence but a plagiarism you will, I think, regard as established by Abraham Hayward in the following passage in his...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—There have at times appeared in some of our principal newspapers articles and correspondence on the question whether local stone or marble should be used...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] . Sra,—Australia is full of lessons and I prophesy that the group of M.P.'s on a tour " down under " will hear something about State trading...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stn,—I wonder whether 'any of your readers could tell me whether the campanile of the fine Westminster Cathedral is slightly out of the...

PAESTUM VESTIGE of long decay Proudly these pillars wear ; Sailors no longer pray Neptune their keel to bear Over the waves to Athens or Corinth sailing away. Snapdragon...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your notice of my book Comrade Jill you say " In the first chapters the scene is apparently set for a revolutionary outbreak . . . then...

11th, p. 384, you state that " there are only twenty-three millions of stationary horsepower on earth." The Report of the Water-power Committee of the Conjoint Board of...

[COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF ;AMERICA BY THE New York Times.] Debits and Credits. By Rudyard Kipling. (Macmillan, 7s. 6d. net.) MR. KIPLING'S new volume will be a source...

by Professor J. Arthur Thomson, of The Pedigree of the Human Race, by Dr. Wilder, and On the Trail of Ancient Man, by Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews.

TO the *pertator "MY EARLY LIFE." By the EX-GERMAN EMPEROR. [Full Copyright reserved by the Spectator.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1926. [GRATIS. No. 5125.]

By the EX-GERMAN EMPEROR (For the next six weeks we shall publish each week a free supplement to the SPECTATOR continuing this autobiography of the ex-German Emperor. The...

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On the eve of his sixtieth birthday, .Mr. H. G. Wells has Enga ge d in a very youthful and amusing fight with Mr. Belloc, ,whom he accuses of writing arrant 'nonsense in his...

Principal Potts, at Lynford Hall, Mundford, Norfolk, send us an illustrated description of the course, together with reeommendations from Lord Forster, Sir Robert Donald and...

Statua and Public Monuments (Methuen, 10s. 6d., with special photographs . by 'E. 0. Winne) and while Opinion may diffei• as te• the 'aesthetic 'qualities of " Rima," we think...

2s. 6d.) is ,. obviously an American book, for we are not given to those orgies of sweetmeats herein referred to as " a candy jag." Neither would the English employer introduce...

of the League of Nations have issued a List of Notable Books published in various Countries during 1924.

Opens in Chapter .VI. with an. account of his early studies in Latin, Greek, history, French, science and drawing. He describes in detail Hinzpeter's method of religious...

the session opening, September 22nd. The Domestic science course for women here is one of the best in the world. * *

LITERATURE AND HISTORY.-The Bonchurch Edition of The Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinbur4. Vols. 13 and 14. - (Heinemann. - 25 gns. the set.) As I Lay Thinking. By Robert...

(1) All entries from readers in the United Kingdom and Irish Free State must be received on or before October 8th : all entries from other parts of the world on or before March...

MOST of us have made hideous mistakes at some time or other in our lives, posted letters in the wrong envelopes or said something irredeemable and unexplainable. Such tremendous...

IT would perhaps be fair to say that in the Old World to-day, while Americans are well liked, America is unpopular. The public form of the United States jars upon many who have...

ONE of the sad things about books of travel is that they disprove so many picturesque fables. Take the boomerang, for example ; its chief hold on our imaginations is due to the...

the Journals of Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, 1879.7 1922. (Cobden-Sanderson. 2 vols. £4 4s. net.) JANE Ausmx, in Persuasion, speaks of autumn as " that season of peculiar and...

Embellissez-vous. By Lucie Delarue-Mardrus. (Editions le France, Paris. 10 francs.) PROLONGING the youth of woman, says Mlle. Delarue-Mardrus, is one of the greatest of this...

Oar the table he twenty - two little volumes of poems and Critical essays that treat . of verse and of the art of reading it. The booklets are of varying Sizes, of formats that...

welcome, for the author sets .forth in plain but graphic language the . romance of our wonderful age of steel and electricity., Wireless ; the romance of excavation ; sea...

Governments and• War. By Major General Sir F. Maurice. (Heinemann. 8s. 6d.) THESE " Studies for the Conduct of War " were originally delivered as Lees-Knowles Lectures, at...

A OUST of fresh air blows over the history of India from the late Sir George Forrest's Selections from the State Papers of Lord Cornwallis, 1786-1793 (Blackwell, 2 vols., 36s....

MM. MonET and Davy, the one a sociologist and the other an . historian, combine in From Tribe to Empire (Kegan Paul, 16s.) to trace how individual practices gradually harden...

FOURFOLD GEOMETRY : BEING THE ELEMENT.. ARY GEOMETRY OF THE FOUR DIMENSIONAL WORLD. By David Beveridge Mair. (Methuen. 8s. 6d. net.) —It is hard for mankind, having been...

captain of the last English team to visit Australia and as one of the English Selection Cominittee this year, Mr. Gilligan is well qualified to write on account of the...

JOHN MILTON : POEMS IN ENGLISH. " With illus- trations by ' William Blake.' (Noiriesuch Press: 2 vols. £2 7s: MI. net.)—The minds cif" Blake and Milton' do not fit easily...

University Press. 30s.)—All students, not only in England, should be grateful to Cambridge for the publica- tion of the Botanical Handbooks. They are composed and published for...

THE LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT OF THE CHILD. By Jean Piaget. (Kegan Paul. 10s. 6d.)—This book is a seri ous contribution• to the continuously increasing mass of literature dealing...

Hall. 7s. 6d. net.)—Miss G. B. Stern's clever new book falls into two unequal halves. The first is devoted to a lively description of the adventures in business and marriage of...

6d. net.)—Mr. Jacobs is irresistible when he writes of trios of artful sailormen, and impressive when his tales are more sombre ones of tragedies among common, humdrum mortals....

THE EXQUISITE PERDITA. By E. Barrington. (Harrap. 7s. 6d. net.)—Nothing less like The Memoirs of Perdita published in 1784 . than the present gay embroidery on the same ground...

children who are already acquainted with Doctor Dolittle will welcome Mr. Hugh Lofting's latest addition to the Dolittle Books. For those who have not had the good fortune to...

only to grant a haggard, handsome actor nursing an appalling secret, and a brave, handsome actress of most womanly parts, and set their course in motion against a background of...

of Mr. Sackville-West is large, his diction unaffected, his powers of description remarkable. It is not even any fault in his characterizations which makes this new novel more...

Misunderstandings appear to have arisen as to the taxes levied on tourists visiting France. For the information of those desiring to visit that country it may be stated that no...

Tire GRAND Pam. - ' I am -informed that the Win ning Delage cars in . the Grand Pris were_ CTripped . Wjth :Champion - Sparking-plugs, Dunlop tyres, - Hartford shock-absorbers,...

ALTERNATIVE FUELS Tim internal-Conabustion engine has been vastly improved during the last decade and the power delivered in proportion to weight in the present-day motor-car...

As a demonstration of what can be done in the way of small fuel consumption, - -the R.A.C. recently observed a test-of an AC car. The car entered for the trial was a stripped...

SCIENTIFIC WELDING. " Testimony to the Work of Barimar " is a booklet con- taining letters from well-known motorists expressing their appreciation of Barimar repairs. Copies of...

THE RISE IN TIN. As demonstrating the tendency of the public to turn its attention to speculative descriptions, the continued rise in tin shares may be cited. Imagination was,...

HE COST OF THE COAL STOPPAGE BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. 'NDER this title the current number of the Westminster ank Review has an interesting article in which an tternpt is made to...

Drury Lane Theatre is such a popular institution that others besides the shareholders will rejoice in the good fortune which has befallen it in the matter of profits arising...

On more than one occasion I have commented upon the wonderful uniformity of the dividend distributions by the Yokohama Specie Bank, and the cause is no doubt to be found in the...

Notwithstanding continued disappointment with regard to an early termination of the coal deadlock, the autumn revival of fresh capital flotations seems to have commenced in...

• TICE' LATE - SIR • E. MA7s —• • HAnvEY. . Deep feelings of-regret were occasioned in the Money Market this week on learning of the death, after a comparatively short .of Sir...

A PROSPEROUS UNDERTAKING. The good results shown in the first year by the Crittall Manufacturing Company have been surpassed during its second year, the profits being no less...