27 NOVEMBER 1926

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The Report of the Committee on inter-Imperial rela- Du-% which

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was adopted by the whole Conference on ridaV, November 19th, does not profess to do more than lay down main outlines and certain comprehending for- mulas upon which it will be...

A committee will no doubt have to inquire, for example,

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into the whole question of the Colonial Laws Validity Act, which is the basis of all Colonial legislation. Readers of the late Professor Dicey will remember his invaluable...

News of the Week pHE British Empire, according to its

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foreign critics, is 11 usually breaking up. They can generally find plenty f evidence that this is so. It was breaking up just before he War and recently they discovered that...

Recognizing that the King's title is of primary signi- ficance

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to all the Dominions, the Report recommends a change which is made necessary by the new position of the Irish Free State. The words " The United Kingdom of Great Britain and...

Each Dominion Government will have the right to advise the

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Crown in all matters concerning the affairs of that Dominion. The British Government will no longer give advice to the King in opposition to the opinions of any Dominion. If...

EDITORIAL AND PUBLISHING ()Friers : 13 York Street, Covent larders,

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London, W.C. 2. — A Subscription to the SPECTATOR Was lirty Shillings per annum, .including poetage, to any part of the arid. The SPECTATOR is registered as a Newspaper. The...

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The American State Department has been prepa for some time

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to call . Mexico sharply to order. This always a difficult _ thing to. do with effect, as Mexico .slippery and evasive, and unless a rebuke from Washing enjoys a good . Press at...

The miners, by their district votes, have prevented any national

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framework from being saved in the coal settlement. Since their proposals were rejected the Government have said nothing more about either the general conditions to which it was...

* * * As for improving personal contact within the

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Empire, the Report says that the representation whether in London or in the Dominion capitals, is a matter for future settlement on the understanding that whatever arrange-...

The miners are rushing back to work before dist settlements

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have been signed or even framed. Wednesday more than 420,000 men were at no Nottinghamshire has broken entirely away from t Federation and has signed an agreement on its o...

The military conference of the Chinese northe leaders at Tientsin

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has resulted in a plan of camp against the Cantonese. The conference was attend by Chang Tso-lin (the Mukden War Lord), Sun Chu fang (the Shanghai War Lord who has recently...

* As regards foreign affairs, it is urged that any

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Treaty made by a Dominion Government should be made in the name of the Head of that State. If the British Government makes a Treaty on behalf of some or all of the Dominions it...

* * * * Possibly in the end the Cantonese

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may become formidable through increasing internal weakness The long-expected split between the Cantonese the Bolshevist habits of mind is beginning to ap The Cantonese would...

The next step was for the Executive to decide what

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the guiding principles should be. Last Saturday the Executive submitted to the Conference the following six points :— " (1) The method of ascertaining the district's percentage...

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Meanwhile four Notes eichanged between the United tates and Mexico

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have been published bearing on he essential dispute about the Mexican land and oil ws. The chief point is that Washington demands in Mexico respect for all the " acquired...

It is announced that Mr. Lloyd George has parted with

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the controlling interest of the .Daily Chronicle and several other.,newspapers which were„, owned by .United Newspapers, Ltd. The purchasers are a group repre- sented by Lord...

The correspondence between the King of the Belgians nd Marshal

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Foch has some curious aspects. M. Lauzanne ublished in Paris some remarks which had been made him by Marshal Foch. He attributed to Marshal och the statement that the Belgians...

Last Saturday a case came before the Bow Street magistrate

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in which it was proved that dogs sold to the University College School of Physiology had been stolen in the London streets. The Jodrell Professor of Physiology was able to show...

* * * * In the House of Commons on

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Friday, November 19th, td Eustace Percy moved the second reading of the ill for creating a Statutory Commission to execute he reforms in the University of London that were...

Lord Eustace Percy went on to say that as the

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Finance ouncil and the Senate would both be supreme in their wa spheres, and those spheres would overlap, the nestion would arise which ought to be supreme in a number of...

We regret that owing to lack of space we are

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obliged to hold over this week Sir Frank Fox's fourth article on " How to make British Farming Pay." We hope, how. ever, to continue the series next week.

On Tuesday, the House of Lords took the second reading

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of the Electricity Bill. Lord Peel explained the Bill with thoroughness, but the most important technical explanation and defence of the Bill came from Lord Weir, whose...

Bank Rate, 5 per cent., changed from 4 per cent.

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on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 100; on Wednesday week 99 ; a year ago 100 t r . Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 84i; on Wednesday...

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The British Commonwealth's Charter of Freedom

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"If our Empire were to end to-morrow, I do not think that wa steed be ashamed of ita epitaph. . . . But it is not going to end. It is not a moribund organism. It is still in its...

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Infamous Reminiscences

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THE exposure of the scandalous volume of faked I reminiscences called The Whispering Gallery will, we hope, be a sufficient warning against an extremely bad tendency of our...

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The Smoke of our Burning

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T HE smoke of the burning of our modern Babylon and her sister cities throughout our land con- tinues to ascend, an infernal incense blaspheming against the heavens. The...

The Roman Church and the Annulment of Marriage

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I T is an ancient commonplace among those who are not members of the Roman Catholic Church that she makes a practice of circumventing her doctrine of the absolute...

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The Week in Parliament

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A FTER a brief interval, during which Bills shot through the House with incredible rapidity, the Merchandise Marks Bill settled down to take the place of its Electrical confrere...

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The Problem of the Family

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V.—School T HE main cost of a family comes when the children reach school age. This cost has never been so high, proportionately to average incomes, as to-day. The charges of...

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The Hundred-Per-Cent. Genius

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S OME Americans are fond of referring to themselves as hundred-per-cent. Americans. They do this in order to distinguish themselves from those who might be called seventy-five...

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Why I Dislike the Zoo

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ONCE heard of a child who, when taken to the Zoo A- for the first time, saw lions and tigers, elephants and eagles, snakes, alligators and kangeroos, with great but not , with...

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Correspondence

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[A LEL LER FROM PRAGUE.] [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sni,—The most stirring event in Prague during the summer months was the Festival of the Czechoslovak Sokol...

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Dumer subscribers who are changing their addresses are asked to

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Art Exhibitions

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THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF PORTRAIT PAINTERS AT BURI.IN(.1■ HOUSE ; THE CHENIL GALLERIES : MR. STAITE MURRA . % POTTERY AT MR. PATTERSON'S GALLERY.] A LARGE exhibition of contemporary...

The Theatre

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[" A HOUSE OF CARDS," BY LAURENCE EUSTON, AT THE LITTLE THEATRE.—" THE Docroa's DILEMMA," BY BERNARD SHAW, AT THE RINGSWAY.] THE exquisitely pretty Polish wife of a rising...

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Poetry

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To Theodora ALTHOUGH I know you're dead, I can't believe it, It seems so silly that you had to go ; The world was beautiful, how could you leave it ? You can't be dead because...

The City Churches

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TILE English will never care much about amenities and architecture, but they may care just enough not utterly to dissipate their inheritance or altogether to disgrace themselves...

Euston and Waterloo

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EUSTON said to Waterloo : " While you run one mile, I run two." " Well I " said Waterloo to Euston, " West don't like your kind o'boostin' . Go the pace to Scotland !—Force it...

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* * * *

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VANISHING VILLAGES. In the course of a visit this week to a very familiar district of England, some sixty-five miles north of London, I came upon some very distressing examples...

If we take a survey of British sport we find

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several practices that are unseemly. The hunting of animals heavy with young is one ; and many hares and others are thus hunted. Some of the trapping habits of some...

* * * This is true ; but sportsmen ought

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to make it a point of honour to reduce the cruelty to the minimum, to be stark reformers in purging their sport, whatever it may be, of any- thing that is ignoble or needlessly...

Moan ROMAN RELICS.

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Since a note was written in this place on excavations of Roman glass and pottery in Hertfordshire and Huntingdonshire, further discoveries have been made, the latest within a...

Country Life and Sport

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Two incidents in the hunting of the deer in southern England have roused protests that the more deeply engrooved sports- man would be wise not to disregard. It is his duty, and...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, --Returning after three

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years abroad, I have, during the last few months, been very much occupied with just those considerations with which the Head-Master of Harrow so ably deals ; and I do not see...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Sin,—Dr. Norwood's article in your issue of Nov. 13th raises a very important subject which requires further ventilation. But surely the writer's remedy is inadequate, and,...

Letters to the Editor

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THE PUBLIC -SCHOOLS AND SOCIAL SERVICE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] cannot feel that the suggestion of the Head-Master of Harrow goes far towards averting the danger. May...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Christ's Hospital, whose pupils

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are drawn from all classes and sects and live happily together, is proof, if proof be needed, that Public Schools have nothing to fear from the open door. But this is only part...

THE SUFFERING OF GOD [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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SIR,—Mr. Brierley asks me to justify my criticism of the now popular doctrine, that God shares in the suffering of human life. I am sorry if the terms I used wounded his...

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ITALY AND FASCISM

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In your issue of October 23rd, p. 699, appeared a review of " Italy and Fascism," by Don Luigi Sturzo, ex-leader of the Italian " Partito...

AN IMPERIAL ZOLLVEREIN

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—All such proposals as that of Sir Alfred Mond overlook the basic facts. (1) The Dominions have long been permitted and encouraged to...

THE BLOOD OF ST. JANUARIUS

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—With reference to the interesting article by Mr. Yeats. Brown, published in the Spectator of October 2nd, describing , the liquefaction...

THE PROBLEM OF THE FAMILY

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I notice in the correspondence on the " Problem of the Family " in your last week's issue a renewal of the suggestion that immunity from...

MISREPRESENTATION OF AMERICAN CONDITIONS IN BRITISH PRESS

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—After a number of months in Europe, the greater part of the time being spent in London, I have returned to my home land more confirmed...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the current issue

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of the Spec articles • are appearing on the problem of the family and how to make farming pay: My case touches both subjects. I am aged fifty, with an income of £420 net. I own...

HOW TO MAKE BRITISH FARMING PAY

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] have been discussing Sir Frank Fox's articles, which are awakening great interest in my part of the country. It is agreed he knows what he is...

[To the Editor of the SrEcTATon.] SIR,—Sir Frank Fox in

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his article advocates the " Torrens system," which presumably is some form of land registration. It is in use in " new lands " like Canada and Australia, and apparently makes...

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A CADDY'S DUTIES [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Sin,=The following translation of rules for caddies, is written in Tamil in a Ceylon golf club. The translation was made.."-by a clerk of understanding, though unacquainted with...

SIR THOMAS PICTON [To the Editor of the SpEcrieroit.]

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&a—Your reviewer is wrong in saying that Sir Thomas Picton fell at Eougoumont. The scene of his death was between La Haye Sainte and la Haye, upon the Wavre Road to the left of...

REFORM OF THE CALENDAR_ * - [To the Editor of

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Ike- SPECTATOR.] SIR,--Mr. Secretary Ramsay MacDonald, replying in 1924 on behalf of the Foreign Office to the League of Nations Inquiry, stated that the practical consideration...

PURE RIVERS , [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] &a—Bishop

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Welldon in your issue of October 30th " invokes the powerful support of the - Spectator in support of the newly- constituted Pure RiVers Society." With the general Object, i.e.,...

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MOTOR AND WINTER TRAVEL SUPPLEMENT No. 5,1351 WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1926. [G R ATIS.

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Travel Notes

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MESSRS. Coos are running a series of excursions to Switzerland which they amusingly call " initiation parties" for people on their first visit to winter sports centres. • The...

Southward Ho !

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DAYS at sea can be full of activity or they can be days of rest and of complete cessation from'responsibility—herein lies one chief attraction of the sea for the world's...

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The Charm of Winter in Sweden

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FEw British holiday makers discover Sweden. And yet, here is a land of great natural beauty, rich in historic memories. It caters well for the -stranger. If there is an...

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The Riviera

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THE extraordinarily warm sun and the amount of clear weather on the Riviera give it a winter as mild as that of Sicily, Palma, or the South of Spain, and the fact that French...

Winter Sports in Switzerland

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(Brigadier-General J. B. Wroughlon,, C.B., C.M.G., is the Editor of:" The Whiter Sports-Annual" - ( Cieit Palmer, is.), a- publication that we cordially - recommend to our...

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Another'excelleht publication 'on the sane' lines, from the press of

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Messrs. Benn (3s. 6d.), shows the tide of public interest in smoke abatement, which, taken at the flood, will lead on to legislation. In the preface.. to Home Fires Without...

The price of The Modern Churchman, reviewed last week, was

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stated to be 8s. 6d. The price, in fact, is 3s. 6d. net.

We do not know why the author of Native Diet

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says that Jerusalem artichokes are a neglected food in England. In many households they are avidly enjoyed. However, as Sir Arbuthnot Lane says in the preface, we can learn a...

Whether writing of a fan-tan party in Limehouse, of walking

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through a tube tunnel,. or of the yellow face of Big Ben seen through the night-mists on the river, or of how omnibuses go to bed, Mr. H. V. Morton is always entertaining : he...

A turbid torrent of psycho-analysis is flooding contemporary thought. Occasionally

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one comes across a good book on the subject of readable dimensions and reasonably free from tech- nicalities. Such is Mr. A. E. Baker's Psycho-analysis Raplained and Criticized...

We sometimes wonder why more people do not take up

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the study of those lowly organisms which can be viewed at small expense through the modern microscope. Microscopic Fresh Water Life, by Mr. F. J. W. Plaskitt (Chapman and Hall,...

This Week's Books

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Sin FREDERICK WHYTE'S Asia in the Twentieth Century (Scribner, 7s. 6d.) is a smallish book, of particular importance, however, for there are few Europeans who have as broad and...

There is a comic side to Sir Thomas Roe's embassy

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to the Grand Moghul—how our dignified ambassador had to enroll s , with Jehangir and receive presents of " whyld hogges " and Babylonish garments from him ; and how shrewd Sir...

Messrs. Theodore and Kermit' Roosevelt have written a sound, workmanlike

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narrative of their adventures in Tibet and the Tianshan mountains—a book that all will enjoy, for there is no high falutin' or egotism here (which is adders' poison under the...

Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton publish The Prince of Wales's African

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Book at 7s. 6d. This pictorial record of His Royal Highness's tour: Ito South and West. Africa and to South America is •es- entertaining as it is–ediichtiVe, and should find a...

We welcome this week the " Smoke Abatement " number

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of Sunlight (The Sunlight League, 37 Russell Square, W.C. 1s.). Dr. Saleeby's correspondence with Mr. Chamberlain is given, as also is an interesting article on the sunlight...

The Oil War, by Mr. Anton Mohr (Hopkinson, 7s. 6d.),

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deserves more expert treatment than can be given here, but the book must be mentioned not only because it has a preface by Mr. Hartley Withers, but also because it combines...

Laurie's Cyclopaedia of Gifts, obtainable from Messrs. Laurie for is.

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net, has many good ideas for presents. Under" Unusual Gifts " we find suggestions such as a monster umbrella for the garden, or the payment of the cost of a year of window...

The New Competition

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The Editor offers a prize of £5 for an Essay in Prose or Verse on " The Character of an Ideal Friend." What are the essentials to be looked for in a true friend ? If you were...

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Lord Palmerston

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- • Ms. PHILIP GUEDALLA has achieved success in his Palmerston. He has developed an entirely new historical technique, and has triumphantly proved its value. He has not...

Plato

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Plato : The Man and his Work., By A. E. Taylor, M.A., D.Litt. (Methuen and Co. 21s. net.) A PHILOSOPHY, whateer it may or may not tell us about the universal realities with...

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The Flatness of the Augustans

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The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse. Chosen by David Nichol Smith. (Oxford University Press. fis. 6d) Poems Written in the Eighteenth Century. Edited by Kathleen W....

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Mr. Bruce Barton and the Bible

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The Book Nobody Knows. By Bruce Barton. (Constable and Co. 5s.) BOOKS on the Bible constitute a vast literature which grows in volume as the generations pass, and the exegesis...

Theorists of Education

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ALWAYS and everywhere there have been theorists of educa- tion. Very rarely, however, have their theories affected contemporary education, which, behind and beyond the generous...

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The Benison of Laughter

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Strained Relations. By Harry Graham. Illustrated by net.) IN true humour there lurks no measure of offence. It is not distortion, but interpretive caricature ; it comes nearer...

Heartaches and Horses

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Young Tom Hall. By R. S. Surtees. (Blackwoods. 20s.) A BOOK illustrated by Mr. Lionel Edwards and published by Country Life is born with a silver spoon in its mouth. No one who...

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THE DIARIES OF A DUCHESS. By James Greig. (Hodder and

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Stoughton. 18s.)—In detail the Diary of the first Duchess of Northumberland is full of entertainment and charm. As a whole it forms a very striking picture of con- trasting ways...

Current Literature

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THE CAMBRIDGE PLATONISTS. By F. J. Powicke, M.A., Ph.D. (J. M. Dent and Sons. 7s. lid. net.)—In this book Dr. Powicke, already known for his useful study of Richard Baxter,...

The "Quarterly" and "Edinburgh"

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THE Quarterly Review opens with a brilliant survey of "British-American Diplomacy," by Mr. Robert McElroy. Twenty-eight British subjects and thirty-nine Americans have...

For classified professional, educational, and trading announce- "tents, see pages

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992 and

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faculty of gloom ; but when he was younger he

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could be as gruesOine as Bluebeard. He tried his hand at a novel. The hero, Zinov'ev, is a handsome, strong, open-faced man, popular with' men and Mired by women: His very...

LUD IN THE MIST. By Hope Mirrlees. (Collins. 7s. 6d.)

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—Miss Mirrlees, who is an author of distinction, has attempted a difficult task here and meets with success. The story she relates, fantastic and dreamlike, takes place in a...

WILLIAM . BLAKE. By Osbert. Burdett. (Macmillan. net.)--L . -Too' much has been

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written 'of Blake in the' past year or two. His very instability and his lack of system have been exalted into virtues. But Mr. Burdett is temperate ; his criticism is unusually...

THE ENGLISH POOR IN THE EIGHTEENTH .CEN- TURY. By Dorothy

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Maishalf, Ph.D. (Rotitledge. ' 12s. 6d. net.)—As our Poor Law administration is to be remodelled in the near future, it is well - to take into account all our past experience in...

BLINDED ICINGS. By J. Kessel and H. Iswolsk - y. (Heinemann. 75..6d.

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net.)—The authors of this story vouch for its accuracy even in details. " There is not a statement; an anecdote, nor a suggestion which is not upheld by evidence.. It is a vivid...

Fiction

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THESE OLD SHADES. By Georgette Heyer. (Heinemann, 7s. 6d.)—A wicked but witty eighteenth-century Engli s h duke is the hero of this incredibly romantic but amusin g novel. He...

Some Novels in Brief KATHARINE SUSANNA PRITCHARD gives us a

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novel of the Australian bush in Working Bullocks (Jonathan Cape, 7 s. 6d. net), in which the hard conditions of the life of the lumber man are realistically depicted. The charm...

THE 'RED CROSS: The Idea and its Development. By Colonel

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Sir James Magill, K.C.B., M.A., M.D. (Cassell. 5s. net.)—Under the above heading Sir James Magill, whose name will be known to every Red Cross worker, gives a brief but...

This Week in London

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FILMS. THE ADVENTURES OF MAYA. THE BEE at the Marble Arch Pavilion. A most curious and fascinating picture concerning the life-story of a bee, its enmity with a certain spider...

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Finance-Public & Private

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Financing British Enterprises Abroad Is any of the readers of these notes should chance to be holders of shares in the Brazilian Traction, Light and Power Company, . Limited, I...

A Library List

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HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY :-The Beginnings of Armini anism. By A. W. Harrison. (University of London Press. 12s. 6d.)-The Social Revolution in Austria. By C. A. Macartney. (Cambrid...

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A " ROYAL " REPORT.

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Increasing prosperity, with a fully proportionate increase in strength and liquidity in the balance sheet, has characterized the annual Reports of the Royal Bank of Scotland for...

STABILITY NEEDED.

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Nor is it difficult to comprehend why, quite apart from security movements, the extent and rapidity of the rise in the franc should be occasioning almost as much concern in...

Insurance 'by Clockwork [COMMUNICATED.] . • THE Saving Clock has

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reached this 'country from Sweden. It is manufactured to take a weekly instalment of one kroner, and with a simple alteration - it can be adapted to take weekly instalments of...

Financial Notes

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AFTER THE COAL .SETTIp8P.NT. Ox the Stock Markets the effect of important developments i s not infrequently discounted in advance. Such has been the case in the matter of the...

. • PATIENCE AND CAUTION.

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It is, however, I think just as well that markets have been thoroughly restrained in the matter of advancing prices on account of the resumption of the coal output. The plain...

VAGARIES OF THE FRANC.

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As distinct from high-class investment stocks and Home securities generally, it may be said that a good many of the speculative departments have. again during the past week been...

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FINANCING TRADE.

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I am glad also to note that the accounts indicate that the Royal Bank of Scotland has been thoroughly performing its duty in the matter of financing commercial requirements....