week were followed on Thursday, firSt . .da.Y. of the Bill in Committee —by her unportint conceision. Captain O'Connor had proposed the day before that in the case of a strike...

shorter working day in the mines could logically he called an 'attempt at coercing the Government now that miners' hours arc fixed by law. Yet no sane person could pretend that...

an illegal strike, proposed a wording which seems to us to be more satisfactory than anything . yet suggested, yet even so not really satisfactory. His definition was :--- "...

the Bill. He admitted that for six years the guillotine had not been used, but the choice now was between the prevention of obstruction and the destruction of Parlia- mentary...

HE amendment of the Trade Unions Bill is proceeding in the right direction. Partly through the voluntary etion of the Government in amending their own Bill, al partly through...

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Delegation is justified in its claim of diplomatic immunity. The Trade Agreement of 1921 provides that members of the Delegation shall enjoy "immunity from arrest and search."...

in full force. The discussion of exactly what kinds of sympathetic strike would be legal was perplexing enough to prove the impossibility of complete definition. The chief...

State visit to the King. . He - was nut at Dover by the Prince of Wales, and that night there was a State Banquet at Buckingham Palace. On Tuesday, M. Doumergue, who was...

to investigate the labour supply in Kenya has reported that there need no longer be any misgivings provided that the estates are competently managed and that further use is made...

Arcos, Ltd., and the Russian Trade Delegation, which are in the same building in Moorgate Street. The search continued for several days. The primary object of the raid was to...

issued on Tuesday, provides that the design of the flag shall be the red Cross of St. George bordered with white on a green field. The Bill mentions certain days on which the...

at Herculaneum. Now that it is the ha of Italy "to get things (lone" it may be assumed the neglect of many generations will be remedied. The minor and intermittent excavations...

become worse. In Southern Louisiana the bauie of the Bayou des Glaises burst and a wall of water fro ten to twenty feet high rushed across the neighbour country. The New York...

on insurance, to contribute a weekly article to the Spectator, dealing with various aspects of insurance. The first article will appear next week, and will be entitled, "How...

of public-houses was ssued last week. The Committee say that the various ystems of disinterested management should be en- ouraged, as they have clearly proved their value. nder...

A Committee has been appointed to consider whether the proposed new service of research workers and experts should be a common corps or whether each Colony should have its own...

and that these must be remem- bered when the present sound . financial state of the scheme is judged. The evidence laid before the Com- mittee did not convince them that the...

on Wednesday when the charges brought by Captain Robert Gee against the R.S.P.C.A. were handsomely withdrawn. It will be remembered that Captain Gee declared in the House of...

mark. On May 9th the total number of . egistered unemployed was 998,300. These are the best igures since May of last year, when just before the .eneral Strike the number of...

1727—the exact day of his birth is unknown —was celebrated at Sudbury in Suffolk. It is a very curious and suggestive fact that those very great and characteristic English...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 100 x.d.; on Wednesday week 1001x.d.; a yea' ago 100 ix.d. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednes- day 871x.d. ;...

T HE dispute over the flag, which ought always to be an agreed device, is threatening to hurl South Africa back into the 'whirlpool of racial animosity. What a tragic irony !...

1 4 - 10R four months the correspondence columns of the Spectator have testified to the interest which our readers take in the revision of the Prayer Book, and the letters which...

S OME postponements are harmful but others fortunate. When in June of last year the projected visit of M. Doumergue to London was postponed owing to the French political and...

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S IR JOHN SIMON observed in debate on Tuesday that when he read that the Government were searching for an important State document in the Arcos building, he suspected that it...

W E learn that "the mouth is the gateway of health." The doctrine of focal infection warns us that the teeth may imperil vital organs, and others of great. im- portance, such as...

" The new situation in the thought of to-day arises from the fact that scientific theory is outrunning common sense."-- PROFESSOR WHITE HEAD. I T is increasingly evident that...

that for him Euston will always be the most romantic of railway stations, because it sets him on the road to Hoylake. To radiate romance sufficient to cast a g lamour even over...

I T is not really a road at all : only a tow-path fringed with honey-scented cowslips—those riverside cups of nectar, with their five "crimson drops . i' the bottom" that the...

[WILLIAM BLAKE CENTENARY EXHIBITION AT THE BURLINGTON FINE ARTS CLUB.] WE are prepared to understand William Blake's art to-day tier than his contemporaries, because we...

A Lurrms FROM ALGIEss. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Algiers is now so well established as a winter resort (rivalling in this respect the most favoured towns of the...

[COVENT GARDEN OPERA.— " SIEGFRIED " AND "DER BOSENHAVALIER."] THE tyranny of stage tradition was shamefully apparent during the first act of Siegfried. The average Wagnerian...

Among the migrant birds that have been arriving in their tens of thousands, swifts have been very conspicuous. They are among the class of late arrivals, though not so late as...

An oddit y of natural history has been engaging the attention of some bird-lovers in an Oxford garden. A blackbird built against the house behind a trellis where it was forced a...

It is extraordinary how little evidence there is to the general gaze of the depression on the farms. England never looked lovelier. Even the fruit blossom externally showed...

ONs: of the most charming and original pamphlets that ever vet were seen is being posted to every village in England. It is of a size to fit the waistcoat pocket, contains two...

The subject is almost as important in the villages as in the towns, which perhaps will chiefly be affected by the very intensive campaign now set afoot by the Playing Fields...

A great deal has been said and written of late about the plight of the British farmer. Unquestionably a great number have been losing money ; and it is proving very difficult...

a concerted endeavour to popularise " the Playing Fields Movement and to collect money. The movement is not uninteresting historically. It has a double origin. Very good work...

against the prevailing belief that Noncom" formists ought to have a voice on either side in the decision to be taken about the new Prayer Book It is said that as the Church is a...

will be known to many of your readers, the German Government ; shortly after the end . of hostilities' in 1918, set up • a number of important Commissions of Inquiry to investi-...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As I always feel keen sympathy with any attempts at Temperance Reform, I have read with much interest your article by the Bishop of Liverpool on the Oxford...

Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,— I have read Mr. Carshaw's letter in your issue of May 14th, and must repeat that the true remedy for our present ills is to work hard and have...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sue,—In common with many others who have a belief in the future of commercial air lines, I have read with slight interest two letters which...

i[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—On reading the article on the above subject, one is reminded of the lines quoted by George Borrow in his Wild Wales "In a garden the...

acquit your reviewer F. Y.-B. of intention to mislead his readers on the relative safety of land and air travel. Ills trouble is we,akness in arithmetic. " Imperial Airways,"...

Latin has never ceased to be a living language among the clergy. But is that quite true ? We know that many of the clergy in the Dark Ages (lid not understand the Mass they...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—In connexion with your article on "The Pronunciation of Latin," your readers may be interested in the following passage from the Journal...

[To the Editor of the SPEcraT0n.1 Sta,—May I refer your correspondent " R. K." to p. 300 of Tht Legacy of Rome (Clarendon Press), where he will find an illus. tration and a...

your illuminating review of my book, Delphos : the Future of International Language, calls, I think, for some comment. Your reviewer expresses agreement with my contention that...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I be allowed to suggest that the banishment al depression may perhaps be due more to the feeding of the nerves by milk rather than to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I do not think that anyone has drawn attention to one of the most curious and persistent misquotations: "When Greek meets Greek, &c."—the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—In the course of extending Berkhamsted School buildings it was necessary to demolish an old water mill which has stood on the banks of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Si a,--Some years ago, a kind friend brought us from America a "Cape Cod Lighter," as recommended by your correspondent from Massachusetts, and...

SPECTATOR.] , S111,— May we again ask for the support of your readers on b ehalf of the London Poor Clergy Holiday Fund? In spite of the efforts which are being made to secure...

might have found a slightly earlier allusion in Evelyn's Diary, July 13th, 1654: He [Dr. John Wilkins, Warden of Wadharn College, Oxford] had above in his lodgings and gallery...

Sia,—Some months ago you had a most delightful article re the Foundling Hospital. As an unknown parson's wife who has lived all her life close to the Hospital, I know only too...

Sea-Anemone TOWARDS the beach an opelet floats, With bright-pink tendrils, drifting free, And all the little common shrimps Arc filled with curiosity ; They draw quite close,...

nothing be done with regard to the meals provided in our parks, the only places where Londoners can eat out of doors ? I had luncheon recently with two friends at one of these...

of the SPECTATOR.] remember, from personal experience in South Africa nearly thirty years ago, with what relief the eye rested on the small towns of the Transvaal after having...

of reading on Lord Ernle's part. He has read every novelist in Europe (before 1832 at all events); his zest and his knowledge arc prodigious ; the result is a large and...

are the Trial of Madeleine Smith (" Notable British Trials," William Hodge. 10s. Od.) and World-Famous Crimes (Blcs. 16s.). The former has the benefit of an introduction by that...

highly trained minds on Mr. George Moores superbly wrought heresy, The Brook Kerith. It has just been translated by Philippe Neel (Solitude du Keritk. G. Gres et Cie.) in a most...

the Right Rev. E. A. Knox, D.D. (Price 3d.) We can only return the answer No to Bishop Knox's query, if controversialists of utterly opposed views, such as the author and Mr....

and his Modern Bee-Keeping (Modern Bee-Keeping, Harlow, Essex. 5s.) is a work which will claim the attention of apiarists, for it is thoroughly practical and up to date, both as...

Maiden Lane. the famous 'Kentish Drovers,' and the 'Prospect of Whitby; 'Five Bells and Blade Bone," Grave Maurice' and 'Bombay G.-ab,' all in or near Dockland, are a few of the...

that of surveying (in Francis Thompson, Faber and Gwyer, 12s. 6d.) the whole field of a poet whose imagery is as rich and recondite as any in our language save Shakespeare. He...

Tim life-work of Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose in connexion with the sensitiveness of plants has now been told by himself in popular form. This new and inexpensive volume will...

TUE Editor offers a prize of 25 for the best philosophy of lifc which readers can write on the back of a postcard. We shall attempt no definitions nor shall we ask our readers...

Plant Autographs and their Revelations. By Sir J. C. Bose. (Longmans. 7s. 6d.) VANIILIAR. ideas are taken for granted. They are axioms ; they are instruments of thought ; they...

The Tragedie of King Lear. Introduction by H. Granville . Barker. (Been, -The Players' Shakespeare. £4 4s. net.) CIIARLES LAMB considered that Lear could never be acted, and...

English Lotal Government : English Poor Law History : Part I, The Old Poor Law. By Sidney and Beatrice Webb. (Longintuts. 21s.) IT is impossible to write a review of a new...

The Prayer Book : What It is, and What it may be. By Sidney Dark. (Skeffington and Son, Ltd. 2s. 6(1.) Tins little book, with its slightly ambiguous sub-title, presents Its...

H. Kilham. (Longmans. 218.) It is one of the most fallacious of all the platitudes to say that the speed and ease of motor transport has made the world a small place. On the...

l'he Religion of an Optimist. By Hamilton Fyfe. (Parsons. los. Sit.) "THE Lamb, the Lamb, the Bleeding Lamb, Glory to the Bleeding Lamb ''—so runs part of a Salvation Army...

The Second Napoleon of Notting Hill The Return of Don Quixote. By ti. K. Chesterton. (Chatto and Windus. 7s. (3d.) ir is so many years since we read Mr. Chesterton's first...

is an excellent mystery story, centring around a staged, and not a real, murder. Two young amateur criminologists are anxious to see with their own eyes how a murderer would act...

Michael Barrington has .allowed his imagination to play round a case discovered in the notebook of a Scottish lawyer of the sixteenth century, and has re- invested with life the...

the younger generation of readers the name of Miss Wilkins may be unfamiliar. She is an American writer, whose stories in Harper's were, we are told, part of the natural order...

From Bismarck to the World War. By Erich Brandenburg. (Oxford University Press. 21s.) HERR BRANDENBURG has written a valuable book. It is always interesting to see German policy...

6s.)—The Ilurons—two .brothers and two sisters—are the fourth generation of their family to carry on the fluctuating fortunes of The House of Joys' at Sabrats, a tourist village...

easily and pleasantly written book is this, of ships and sailors of the kind that go dome to the sea for amusement. The pioneer of yachting wa , perhaps Charles II, and Mr....

book that fosters it is to be commended. We have nothing but praise for Mr. Pease's small volume, which in a series of scholarly papers recounts the different phases of...

Richardson Wright. (Lippincott. 21s.)—This book, in so far as it deals with pedlars, may be described as a conglomeration of entertaining material throwing light upon the...

Herr Kautsky, is typical of this branch of Socialist propa- ganda. The author frankly admits the difficulty of fitting the Tudor Humanist into the part for which he is cast. It...

Bodley's book scarcely fulfils the promise of-its title. It gives much information, but this information is 'almost wholly objective ; the reader's mind does 'ncit receive the...

novel is more unconventional than the story itself. The background is Soviet Russia. But we doubt if the Bolshevik intrigues that give an undercurrent of mystery to the talc are...

long and engrossing novel is a study of the temperament of a hypersensitive and introspective man, with an alcoholic taint m his blood and a " complex " that makes him alter-...

6s.)—Mr. Moseley's authorized investiga- tion of our prisons of to-day" is calculated to bring consola- tion to those of us who think, when we think at all, with poignant...

Od.)—Many books designed primarily as guide-books for travellers though ambitious in their literary appeal make dull and flimsy reading. Mr. Hugh Quigley's The Land of the...

Decarbonizing the Morris " Suet' a bore, we're without the Morris ; she's gone to be decarbonized and won't be back for a week."----HoW often does one hear such a remark !...

II1STORY AND TRAVEL :- This Generation. By Thomas Cox Meech. Vol. 1. (Chatto and Windus. 12s. ad.) Ancient Rome at Work. By Paul - Louis. (Kegan Paul. 16s.)--Gladstone and...

Monday, May 23rd, at 3.30 p.m. THE EXPLORATION OF THE HIMALAYA. By Lieut.-Col. Sir Francis Younghusband. Under the auspices of the East India Association. At the Caxton Hall,...

MONETARY UNCERTAINTIES. In considering the monetary situation and Bank rate pws- fleets, it is evidently necessary at the present moment to takc carefully into account...

The Investment Outlook Tim firmness of high-class investment stocks is not a matter of a few weeks' or a few months' duration, but it might be said of a few years', and not...

It is not only, however, as regards the situation in Gernion that developments abroad have been noteworthy, for it evident that French financial developments continue to Ix of a...

As I anticipated, the statements made by the chairman at this week's meeting of the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company show that the setback in net profits is...

It is significant of the high expectations formed nowadays of profits in the big newspaper groups that the shares of Allied Newspapers, Limited, should have fallen somewhat...

There are not wanting signs of a turn in the tide in the matter of shipping depression, but the Reports now issued cover a very difficult period, and this is shown in the case...