upon industry at all.; and Unless Mr. Broad has deceived himself there would have been some actual relief. All the boons of insuring men and women against those risks of...

T HE- chief Parliamentary event of the week has been the debate on the Contributory Pensions Bill. In substance the debate has -proved what , we- feared—that the savings on Poor...

Bill, said that he considered his post hereditary as his father had done the work of a pioneer for workmen's compensation, pensions and insurance. He himself had added the...

childless widows. If this alteration were accepted only £1,250 ; 000 would be saved in ten years and there would be a vast number of hard border-line eases. That was his answer...

pensions schemes for their employees. If a further reason was needed it was that the State could not afford any more. It was true that a person who began to contribute at the...

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of Egypt and Sir George Lloyd is to take his place. Mr. Austen Chamberlain announced in the House of Commons on Wednesday that this implied no change of policy whatever. Lord...

of native labour in Kenya was discussed, Lord Balfour made the interesting and welcome proposal on behalf of the Government that an Advisory Committee should be appointed to...

explained that some figures which he had quoted on Monday, and which had greatly impressed the House, were inaccurate. He had said that the profits of mining in Durham in 1924...

showed that he had no idea of being a destructive critic. A non-contributory pensions scheme, he said, was incon- ceivable. Nevertheless, industry could not immediately bear the...

debate by promising that the Bill should be taken in Committee of the whole House, and there would thus be opportunities for amendment. He disagreed with Sir Robert Home, Who...

to the undergraduates of Oxford, who gave him a hearty welcome at the Union when he spoke there on Friday, May 15th. Mr. Baldwin made a most earnest appeal to educated young men...

of the Bill, was sarcastic and sardonic. There was evidently to be " a heartless paper reduction " of the unemployed- People would not be given pensions but would have to pay...

in the House of Lords on the film industry. This British industry is evidently in a very bad way. In 1923, 139 British films were made ; in 1924 they dropped to seventy - six,...

no doubt that Abdel Krim intends to make his main effort in Morocco against the French. So far the French have done well, but the length of the front and the nature of the...

considering the Note in which Germany will be informed of the points on Which she is said to have defaulted. In Paris it is sug- gested that Germany will need some time to...

ing that all those European countries which have not funded their War debts to her should open negotiations. Britain, Poland, Hungary, Finland and Lithuania have all funded...

of two remarkable women—Mrs. Alfred Baldwin and Mrs. Haldane, of Cloan. We sincerely sympathize with both Mr. Baldwin and Lord Haldane, both of whom derived in a very real and...

which occurred on Thursday, May 14th. He was a story- teller by nature—and that is a considerable and fortunate thing to be. He never, therefore, had any difficulty with his...

on March 5th, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Thursday 9911 ; on Thursday week 99*; a year ago 1001. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Thursday 871 ; on Thursday week 87! ;...

to continue a day after the evacuation of the Ruhr has been completed. France alone desires a continuance. We can only guess at her reasons. We might have said that to refuse...

THE FEVERISH REDEMPTION OF DEBT F EVERISH Redemption of Debt--that is the source of our discontents. That is what is injuring our industries, and causing alarm and...

T HE two and a half hours' journey from Dublin to Belfast, on the Great Northern Railway, is like entering another world. We have left the motherland of Gaelic culture and are...

BY ARTHUR W. PAGE, Editor of the American World's Work. S IX months or more ago Professor Carver of Harvard wrote :- " Ownership of the factories and the plants by the workers...

BY LIEUT-COMMANDER J. M. KENWORTITY, R.N., M.P. O PTIMISTS in both the Conservative and Labour Parties declare the Liberal Party will soon cease to exist, or that it is already...

TN one sense, of course, all Paris, in the month of May, -I- is an exhibition. For the chestnuts are out in the Bois, the long pleached avenues in the boulevards arc of a...

By NEW MEMBER. A FURTHER debate on unemployment last week elucidated no new facts, and left members no less perturbed and depressed than hitherto. Mr. Lloyd George stated the...

R ETURNING warmth brings to life again, one after another, the creatures which have dozed in some natural chimney-corner through the dead season. In the month of May there are...

THE " MAID'S TRAGEDY" AT THE SCALA. THE careful and scholarly production of The Maid's Tragedy at the Scala, on Sunday and Monday, could not alter the fact that great poetry...

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A - LETTER FROM CAMBRIDGE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The lovely . air of May is full of the fumes of motor-cars and the motor-car controversy. At the recent Senate-...

LOAN EXHIBITION OF OLD MASTERS.—Considering the high standard of the fine selection of old masters that the nation is so fortunate in having in the National Gallery, one would...

JAPAN'S HELP IN THE WAR [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—May I be allowed to add a few remarks to the article entitled " What the Japanese Think of Singapore," published...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In a leading article on the 15th inst. the Times drew attention to the " important European question that has emerged again," that central...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In your issue of May 9th an article entitled " Medical Sociology " deals with my book, Sex at Choice, in a manner: requiring some slight...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stn,—In considering the method suggested by Mr A. Hervey Hoare, in the Spectator of May 16th, for extinguishing the National Debt, we may lay...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the article which you published last week from me, on page 798, column 1; paragraph 1, there is an unfortunate misprint, due probably...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Within a few weeks of writing these lines the daily papers will be liberally sprinkled with appeals for pecuniary assistance to send...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—TIIC Spectator is such a warm supporter of voluntary action, as distinct from State or bureaucratic management, that I think you will give...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I comment upon one of several sweeping state- ments made by Mr. S. H. Sweetman in his letter on this sub- ject ? I can well believe...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The path of progress is stony and strewn with thorns, and the sharpest stones and most virulent thorns are the jeers and adverse...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is the astonishing habit of the English to accept the ' French in literary matters at their own valuation. From Racine to Romains "...

SONNET TO M.K. TRUTH, like a pearl in shell, lurks in my heart ; Who shall discover what I cannot tell— Whether I love you wholly or in part, Truly or falsely, weakly or too...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I see in your paper a review of the recent Berkshire Victoria History you give the name of Rev. P. H. Ditchfield as Editor. My husband,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—When the history of the English musical revival of the twentieth century comes to be written, the most famous name of the period will be,...

[To' the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--On behalf of children to be seen in every "side street playing in gutters and on hard pavements, I appeal to your readers for help for...

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of England, by Mr. Belloc. There are to be four volumes, pro- ceeding from the Roman Invasion to the opening of the South African War. . We have been eagerly waiting for...

Tim publishers are more gracious now : we seemed to be in for a stodgy season, but it has been enlivened by a surprising number of good novels. Lately we have received The...

Places and Persons. By Margot Asquith. (Thornton Butter- worth. 21s.) LAURENCE OLIPHANT divided his world into life-givers and life-takers. We would modify the sweeping sentence...

saint," Mr. Cun-' ninghame Graham quotes in his preface to Doughty Deeds: (Heinemann) ; and so, he suggests, with sinners. And he counts himself well fitted to write this life...

THE EDITOR OFFERS A PRIZE OF £5 FOR AN ORIGINAL WARNING IN SIX LINES OF VERSE. WE should prefer to leave it at that ; but perhaps we should then be leaving our readers at a...

,Physique and Character. By E. Kretschmer. (Kegan Paul. 15s.) IT is a commonplace of observation that the face and form reveal the man. When one talks about a villainous-looking...

Old Colonial Architecture in New South Wales and Tasmania. By Hardy Wilson. (Medici Society. £10 10s.) THE most remarkable thing about this book is the fact of its existence....

THE WAY Day of. Atonement. By Louis Golding. (Chatto and Windus. 7s. 6d. net.) IT is Mr. Somerset Maugham who talks of the " Way.": In the course of his new novel he gives us...

Blind Battery. By Donn Byrne. (Sampson Low. 5s.)–.. There is no country but Ireland of which it is so true to say " you must love her ere to you she will seem worthy of your -...

House of Menerdue. By A. C. Benson. (Heine- ' mann. 7s. Od. net.)—Two veteran novelists, Mr. Norris and Mr. Benson, have' published books at the same time. Both,l Mr. Norris in...

net.)—The sinister attraction which Africa exercises . over certain white people is the theme of Lady Dorothy., Mills' new story. The victim in this 'case is a young English...

net.)—The story of an unhappy marriage which ends in a disaster extending-to the second generation. This theme calls for a close psychological analysis which Mrs. Nicholson...

made in reviewing Mr. Alfred Tresidder Sheppard's new novel, Brave Earth. Our reviewer described it as " a serious novel which opens in the reign of Henry the Eighth, and goes...

heading in the Times—" Telegrams in Brief "—a heading, how- ever, which often covers many interesting things—my eye caught the following :- " It is expected that the roads over...

BY LADY BCRGIICLERE. I HAVE always understood that ancestor-worship -I- is the dominant creed of China. It may be so. I.have not visited China, but I am convinced that it is...

A BOUT two-thirds of the way from Dieppe to Paris a pleasant little river, seen from the railway car- riage, inevitably suggests trout. It passes through Gisors, a place of...

INTERNATIONAL DEBTS By ARTHUR W. KIDDY. DURING the past week the question of International Debts has once again excited attention owing to the reminder which Washington has...

MARKET FACTORS. THE influences operating upon markets during the past week have been of a conflicting character. In the first place, the outflow of gold about the middle of...