20 AUGUST 1932

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News of the Week

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India T HE decision of His Majesty's Government upon the representation of the Indian communities in the new Provincial Legislatures was published in a White Paper on Tuesday....

It became plain at both the Round Table Conferences that

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the Indian representatives could come to no agreed decision in this matter, though the Government here begged them to bend all their efforts to do so. The Prime Minister, after...

The figures seem to us to have achieved the greatest

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possible measure of justice possible. In every Province there will be a large block of seats, known as " General " (including a few women's seats), for Hindus, or those who...

Ottawa We write on another page some general reflections on

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the close of the Imperial Conference at Ottawa. The last meeting is expected to be held on Saturday. The details of the work done are not officially published, and obviously...

We do not expect any Indians to thank the Government

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publicly for helping them in a piece of necessary work which they could not perform, and we expect the Congress Party to condemn the proposals unread. Until they are passed by...

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With the Australian and New Zealand delegations we understand that

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satisfactory agreements have been reached about mutton and lamb, but that Mr. Bruce has been disappointed by our standing out against any proposed handicap upon beef exported,...

Mr. Hoover on War Debts It was not to be

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expected that Mr. Hoover, in hi s address accepting nomination as Republican candidate for the Presidency, would expound his policy without a careful regard for the use that his...

Danzig and Memel It is well to record the conclusion

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of a friendly agree- ment between Poland and the Free City of Danzig, ending a petty quarrel about the entry of Polish warships into the Danzig harbour and binding both parties...

The Report on Currency of the Committee on Monetary and

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Financial Questions was approved by the Heads of the Delegations last Friday. The subject is one on which only the boldest will speak with assurance. The Com- mittee, very...

Hindenburg and Hitler Last Saturday's meeting between the German President

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and Herr Hitler, fresh from his triumph at the Reichstag elections, has not clarified an uncertain situation. Marshal von Hindenburg refused Herr Hitler's demand for the...

Ireland We hear nothing of any movement towards negotiations or

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conciliation between His Majesty's Governments in Great Britain and Southern Ireland, and we deeply regret it. (We cannot take very seriously the rumour that Mr. MacDonald has...

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Professor Graham Wallas We regret to record the death of

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Professor Graham Wallas. Though the activities of his seventy-four years of life were many and diverse, Professor Wallas will, perhaps, be primarily remembered for his...

Lancashire in Peril The interminable dispute in the manufacturing section

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of the Lancashire cotton industry has led at last, as was feared, to a decision on the part of the Northern Counties Textile Trades Federation for a strike to begin on August...

The Loan Conversion Mr. Chamberlain and the Bank of England

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are to be congratulated on the success of the War Loan conversion scheme. The conversion of stock to the value of £1,850,000,000 out of a total of £2,086,000,000, or 90 per...

Yorkshire Abbeys Earlier in the summer several thousands of worshippers

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were gathered at Rievaulx Abbey to celebrate its founda- tion 800 years ago. The first service, it is believed, since the Dissolution was held there. This was due to the...

Spain The Spanish Government re-established its authority in Seville in

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a very few days after it had put down the rising in Madrid. General Sanjurjo fled and was captured. The Civil Guards of the district have been disbanded and many arrests have...

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Ottawa

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B EFORE we can write again of the Imperial Economic Conference the curtain will be rung down upon the scene at Ottawa. We can claim that its end is better than its beginning if...

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Road and Rail

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T HE unanimous Report of the Conference on Road and Rail Transport, the " Salter Committee," wa s published on Wednesday. The Committee, which was appointed on April 11th of...

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Unemployment Relief : The Coming Report

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BY RONALD C. DAVISON (The Royal Commission on Unemployment I nsurance appointed at the end of 1930 should present its fi nal report in the early autumn. The following article...

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The Problem of Suffering

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I.—Sufferin g in the Old Testament BY REV. PROFESSOR JOHN E. MCFADYEN, D.D. (This article is the first of a series of four on questions which surround the problem of suffering....

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Criticism and Reviewing

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BY L. A. G. STRONG. I SOMETIMES suspect that those who cry out upon the decay of critical standards—however right they may be in their main contention—base their complaint upon...

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Portrait of a Traveller

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BY HELEN SIMPSON. T HAD occasion recently to go into a foreign country whose language, theoretically, I spoke ; that is to say, whose language I had been taught at school, and...

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Theatre

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" Orders are Orders." A Military Diversion by Ian Hay and Anthony Armstrong. At the Shaftesbury Theatre. AN Y example of compact interdependent life under artificial conditions...

A Hundred Years Ago

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THE " SPECTATOR," AUGUST ISTH, 1832. The take of salmon has been so great at Fort William this season, that the ice has been exhausted, and the fishers have had a number of...

SPECTATOR.]

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By a letter received from a gentleman who accompanied Lord

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Durham to St. Petersburg, we learn that the Emperor professes great anxiety to meet the views of the British Government on the subject of Poland. The writer adds, that, from the...

DEATH OF THE SEASON. — Had the Gods made us poetical, we

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should now write an elegy upon the departed season. Thomson sung the Seasons ; but we speak of " the season of the seasons," as the almanack-venders have it. What a solitude is...

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Letters to the Editor

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[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The M921 suitable length is that of one of our " News of the Week " paragraphs.—Ed....

THE OXFORD GROUP MOVEMENT [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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SIR,—It should scarcely be necessary to seek to vindicate Mr. Barry's first-hand knowledge of the Oxford Group Move- ment. During my own time at Oxford. which coincided with...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Is not Mr. Mozley's

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difficulty about " the maximum experience of Christ " the difficulty of most of us ? The word " experience " is not so " elusive " as the actual experi- ence, there is all the...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—All your correspondents on

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the above question seem to be wrong one way or another. The fact that commodity prices have been rising sharply on the occasion of most crises seems to dispose of Mr. J. A....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—This question, so far

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as it affects the ordinary citizen, appears to be getting lost in a maze of technicalities and abstractions. An authoritative answer to the following concrete problem might,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I cannot take quite

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seriously the seal of profundity which Professor Robbins places upon his own intellectual efforts when he informs your readers that his speculations upon the problem of spending...

SAVE OR SPEND ?

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Professor Robbins seeks to minimize his admission of a time lag in the passage of new savings into investment. But his admission is fatal...

THE IRISH LAND ANNUITIES

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,--Any points now at issue whether Irish Land Annuities form part of a Public or National Debt, may well turn on what is the actual line of...

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ENGLISH IRONY

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—There are few things more mystifying to the foreigner or more satisfying to the student of national psychology than the vein of popular...

THE LATE LORD MILNER AND THE WORLD CRISIS

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In June, 1920, I sent Lord Milner a copy of a letter which I had written to The Times protesting against the policy of restricting credit....

PUBLIC EXECUTIONS

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In his letter on public executions in British Uganda, there is one aspect of the subject, not mentioned by Mr. John H. Harris, which is, I...

HENRY JAMES AND THE THEATRE

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Henry James wrote at least eleven plays. These are : Daisy Miller, Tenants, The American, Disengaged, The Album, The Reprobate, Guy...

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LATIN PRONUNCIATION

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Servante is right in his view that Latin should be pronounced so that it is a clue to the English words derived from it. Thus viva and voce...

MR. HORACE HUTCHINSON

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—There must be a very great number of people outside of golfing circles who have learned with deep regret of the death of Mr. Horace...

CARLYLE AS A PROPHET

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In his essay on Count Cagliostro, probably published about a hundred years ago, Carlyle writes : " With general economic distress in such...

Poetry

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Three Poems from The First Inheritance (1) The False Way HE who conceives himself to be Exempted from humility By a perception passing keen Of the rapt, intellectual scene— The...

GEORGE ELIOT

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have followed with much interest the recent corre- spondence about George Eliot and was much surprised at the statement that Mr. G. H....

THE INDEX TO VOLUME 148 OF THE " SPECTATOR' IS

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NOW READY• One Shilling (or 25 cents) for each copy should be enclosed with instructions, and addressed to : — INDEX DEPT., THE " SPECTATOR," LTD., 99 GOWER STREET, LONDON,...

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Light on the Dark Ages

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The Making of Europe. By Christopher Dawson. (Sheed and Ward. 15s.) Ma. Dawsoss calls his study of the Dark Ages " an Introduction to the History of European Unity." The words...

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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TOPICAL cant on the subject of Woman flies in all directions. It says that she is reacting against her hard-won freedom and is eager, by some form of social anarchism, to...

Economic History

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MRS. SIDNEY WEBB" tells in her Autobiography the impression made on the present Lord Passfield by the first edition of Marshall's Principles of Economics. He had read it through...

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A Lawyer's Notebook

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A Lawyer's Notebook. Anonymous. (Seeker. 5s.) ALTHOUGH the author of this book has for professional reasons veiled his identity with anonymity, all those who are privileged to...

Kamet Conquered

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Kamet Conquered. By F. S. Smythe. (Gollancz. 16s.) WITH Everest and Kanchenjunga unconquered, there still remain some thirty Himalayan peaks of the 25,000 foot calibre to be...

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Servants of the Novel

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ROBERT RAGE, Edward Bancroft, Elizabeth Blower—like the names on country tombs they are deeply forgotten, but now a new scroll has been beautifully cut for them. They deserve...

Russia Since 1917

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Bonfire. Stories out of Soviet Russia. Collected by S. Konovalov. (Benn. 7s. 6d.) Bonfire. Stories out of Soviet Russia. Collected by S. Konovalov. (Benn. 7s. 6d.) THESE three...

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The Orators

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The Orators : An English Study. By W. H. Auden. (Faber and Faber. 7s. 6d.) LITERARY historians of the future are going to have a bad time of it : periods are contracting from...

International Guarantees

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International Guarantees of Minority Rights. By Julius Stone. (Oxford University Press. 14s ) Ma. Jinaus STONE, a scholar in International Law, has written a book on the...

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Chopin and Jean Stirling

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The Oxford Original Edition of Frederic Chopin. Edited from the original Edition and the Manuscripts by Edouard Gauche. 3 Vols. (Oxford University Press. 57s. 6d. Or in separate...

Are We Monogamous ?

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The Case Against the English Divorce Law. By Alfred . Fellows. (The Bodley Head. 7s. 6d.) THE conventional argument against reform of the divorce law of this country is that...

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Three Guide Books

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The Italian Lakes and Lakeland Cities. By Arnold Lunn. (Kitbag Travel Books. Harrap. 5s.) Orkney. The Magnetic North. By J. Gunn. (Nelson. 3s. 6d.) THE publishers claim for the...

Dumcr subscribers who are changing their addresses are asked to

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notify the SPECTATOR OffiCC BEFORE MIDDAY OH MONDAY OP nem WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

Marshal Lyautey

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MARSHAL LYAUTEY is known as " the royalist who has given an empire to the Republic." He is a man of great beliefs, with the ability to put them into practice : and these...

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Fiction

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BY L. A. G. STRONG. MANY years ago, before the War, used to appear a monthly magazine for boys, excellently illustrated and produced, by name The Captain. Odd numbers of it...

QUARTETTE. By Leslie Meller. (Faber and Faber, 7s. 6d.) —This

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distinguished and perceptive piece of work raises an interesting question. To what extent do we require that an author who relates moving and pas.sionate occurrences shall...

FaurrLEss EDEN. By D. S. Agnew. (Joseph. 7s. 6d.)— A

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readable story, on conventional lines, about a girl named Velda, who came from her mountain home to Paris and Monte Carlo and underwent a variety of exciting experiences. " '...

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Russian Turkestan is one of the most fascinating places in

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the world. Its names—Samarcand, Tashkent, Bokhara—spell enchantment and carry a fragrance peculiarly their own. The old trade routes, the camels bringing to the Caspian the rich...

THE LEAGUE YEAR BOOK, 1932

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In his foreword to The League Year Book, 1932 (First Annual Edition, Nicholson and Watson, 12s. 6d.), Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary General of the League of Nations, welcomes it...

CARLYLE By Emery Neff

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Mr. Neff's attitude towards Carlyle is not that of the ortho- doxly faithful. He has, to begin with, the merit, denied to the majority of Carlyle's previous critics and...

Current Literature

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" Almost with one consent the Jacobites declared that they ought for God, King, and country, and it does not follow use others saw things differently that the claim was false."...

The most recent recruit to the now popular epistolary convention

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is the late Charles Ricketts, whose Recollections of Oscar Wilde (Nonesuch Press, 15s.), presented in the form of letters to an imaginary French writer, Jean Paul Raymond...

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MONSIEUR THIERS By John M. S. Allison

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Orator, journalist, historian and statesman, Monsieur Thiers is wittily portrayed in a compact biography by Pro- fessor J. M. S. Allison of Yale (Allen and Unwin : 10s. 6d.)....

The many ways in which geography influences history are well

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illustrated in Professor Ellen C. Semple's able and erudite Geography of the Mediterranean Region : Its Relation to Ancient History (Constable, 21s.). The American author says...

Travel

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Central Africa : The Cost of Copper Fort days we had been pushing on through the primeval forest in the very heart of Africa. From Northern Rhodesia we had crossed the Luapula...

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THE GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSIBILITY.

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Nevertheless, and so far especially as British Funds are concerned, there is little. doubt that much, in fact almost everything will depend upon the determination of the...

REMARKABLE FIGURES.

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It will be remembered that to those converting during the month of July the Government offered a cash bonus of £1 for every £100 of the old Loan converted. Almost as soon as Mr....

INVESTMENT OUTLOOK.

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The success which has attended the Conversion Loan must have a considerable influence upon the course of the investment markets for some little time to come. The public has set...

CONVERSION CONTINUING.

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Thus it will be seen that for the first month of the operation nearly 90 per cent. of the whole Loan of £2,087,000,000 has been converted, while the very fact of the success...

BRITISH CREDIT ENHANCED.

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There can be no question that the brilliant success of this largest conversion operation ever known mu s t enhance British credit both at home and abroad. I have already...

Finance—Public & Private

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Britain's Financial Triumph THE success of the conversion of the 5 per cent. War Loan has surpassed all expectations. I notice that in some quarters there is a _disposition to...

A FORMIDABLE TASK.

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The task, however, before Mr. Neville Chamberlain was concerned with a 5 per cent. Loan totalling £2,087,000,000, a Loan, moreover, which the Government was compelled to redeem...

CAPITAL AWAITING EMPLOYMENT.

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Moreover, as is very well pointed out in the latest Quarterly Review of Business Conditions, issued by Messrs. J. Henry Schroder and Company, there are many signs of stores of...

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HOME RAILWAYS.

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A somewhat noteworthy feature of the week has been the rally in Ordinary stocks of English Railways and also in some of the Junior prior charge stocks. To some extent the im-...

TAXATION AND THE BREWING INDUSTRY.

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The Chairman of Mitchells and Butlers, Sir William Waters Butler, has long been regarded as an expert not only upon the brewing industry but on all matters relating to licencmg,...

TRIBUTE TO THE BANK.

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It is impossible to close these few comments upon our national triumph in the conversion of the War Loan without paying a high tribute to those who have organized the...

Financial Notes

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CHEERFUL MARKETS. DURING the last week or so the stock markets have derived a stimulus from two quite different quarters. The boomlet in Wall Street, although it has now...