the pro- blem. The fruitfulness and the very feasibility of the new Revolution directed by Capital depends upon the co-operation of the wage-earners. If they withhold...

the threshold of a new Industrial Revolution. The critical question is whether we mean to see this Revolution through or to falter where we stand. No one who has followed recent...

malcontents. He described the Bill as unpractical, politically, financially and technically. An immense and only theoretically limited credit was being engaged at the worst...

failure of the coal supply and the collapse some day of Great Britain when she would be deprived of her source of strength. But long before that day of doom need be faced with a...

moved the Second Reading of the Electricity Bill. As we have explained the nature of the Bill more than Once and have written further about it in our first leading article this...

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Nations are inclined to be despondent, it is satisfactory to observe matters in which the League is functioning with greater success than ever. The Permanent Mandates Commission...

figures of unemployment. These have been falling persistently for several months, and while some persons have derived much satisfaction from the apparent im- provement others...

calm throughout the Protectorate, but he adds that he cannot find any equivalent of the optimism which is expressed in Paris and Madrid. Confidence, he says, has not withstood...

out again within a few days. We fancy that the prospects of peace would be better if Spain were in a more accom- modating mood. . The unwillingness to get out of an expensive...

Pei-fu and Chang Tso-lin has not yet' developed: The Time,s correspondent says that skirmishing hai occurred at several points within twenty miles of Peking, and he thinks that...

how the Syrian people were provoked by rapid and unnecessary changes of policy. Since 1919 there have been five High Commissioners, and each bad strong views about what ought to...

proposals of M. Raoul Peret, the Minister of Finance. The Chamber is debating these proposals when we' go to press. Before the debate M. Peret warned the Finance Committee that...

of the coal subsidy must not be forgotten ; both of them are strictly relevant to the problem. We do not know exactly what the effect of the subsidy has been on unemployment in...

on Monday, and though it was not used as much as might have been expected, it is satisfactory to record the arrangements as . a whole worked smoothly. The small agricultural...

well known in this country, where he lived for many years after the Comte de Paris had to' find a home for himself and his family outside France and settled in England. He lost...

after the crime has offered a scathing comment on Fascismo. Making all allowances for the familiar differ- ences between our trials and those in Latin countries, We are appalled...

the amenities of the countryside. It seemed to give the County Councils powers to restrain the obtrusion of vulgar and ugly sign's:" The natural way for them to act and to...

the Fasci from whom Fascism° has developed into one of the important movements of the world. In some respects we can .add our congratulations to those which the Fascisti and...

even struggle over about half the course, and then for an unprecedented collapse in the Oxford boat. No. 5 in the Oxford boat " cracked," so that for several strokes he was...

Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Lord Oxford and Mr. Thomas Hardy, appealing for funds to build a Shake- speare Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon in the place of the one tragically...

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Monday 101* ; on Wednesday week 101* ; a year ago 101 tr. Fund. ing Loan (4 per cent.) was on Monday 861 ; on Wednesday week...

THE ELECTRICITY BILL T HE choice which the nation, through Parliament, has to make this week is between chaos and order in the supply of electricity. At present there is no...

" Irrespective of the level of wages, we regard the introduction of a system of children's allowances—to be paid for out of a single pool, either for the whole industry or for...

T HE Report of the Departmental Committee of the Board of Education on the University of London* is short, readable, and to the point. The task of Mr. Hilton Young, the...

materially and psychologically, but no less powerful politically,, because the Labour Party has chosen this of all moments to embark once more upon a fierce internecine war. Mr....

F OREMOST in all therapy is rest. The injured, or poisoned, or over-exerted, or otherwise ailing organ, tissue or function must rest : and then, very pro- bably, it will heal...

[This article was awarded half of the prize presented by Mr Gabriel Wells for an essay on "Unemployment : its Cause and Remedy. "l T HE causes of our present industrial...

BY GEOFFREY DEARMER. R EBELS die unhonotired but not unsting—when they are right, and those who rebel against grammar, although they are often buried in oblivion whilst the...

T RAVELLING can be an art as well as a hobby. Travellers, like artists, can have their styles, their theories and their ideals. They need not be mere photographers who expose...

the Governor of the Gold Coast Colony, had to tell at the opening of the Budget Session at Accra. The exports, imports and revenue are the greatest in the history of the Colony....

been discussing in the Daily Mail the reasons why Great Britain as a whole has not a larger tourist traffic. It is a subject which _ has often been referred to in the Spectator....

Quebec Legislature which provides that on every meal in a restaurant costing more than one dollar a surcharge of five per cent, shall be imposed for the support of the hos-...

of Annapolis Royal has appointed a Committee to arrange for the commemoration of the birth of the drama in North America, which happened at Port Royal in 1606. The commemoration...

Protection of Birds, presided over by the Duchess of Portland, a speaker made an eloquent plea far an educa- tional campaign against the folly of collecting birds' eggs and he...

other day, here it is. As soon as you wake up, turn on the light and start reading some bedside book such as Dickens, Thackeray, Jane Austen or Trollope. After reading for half...

industry in the United States is referred to in the Daily Science News Bulletin of Washington. The great army of motor tourists carrying home trees and bushes have been the...

was no better than its "opposite number" in this country. It was the coming of the motor-car in the United States which revolutionized the American hotel industry. Let us hope...

THERE is to be no Government intervention in the British film industry for the next year. The President of the Board of Trade informed the deputation which waited on him...

, • FI , LYCEUM Wiwtir a wonderful woman Miss Thorndike is ! Her physical resilience is amazing. For three months she has been giving ten performances each week of a heavy...

as Macaulay might have put it. Gentle and also childlike, he had evidently an extraordinary sympathy with the common people of the London he knew—the London of Stowe's Syrvay....

THE FRENCH OF PIERRE FRONDALE. NEW THEATRE.] On, that garden ! And (with - respect) oh, Allah •! This is what the magazines call a powerful Sheik story "—and at least it is...

ROAD-CRAFT AND ITS VALUE OUR roads are growing perceptibly more dangerous every day, and even the most expert drivers are occasionally faced with a combination of circumstances...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Writers in the Spectator on atmospheric impurities seem to have acquired the habit of slandering Sheffield when they desire to emphasize a...

THE GENEVA ACCIDENT [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Many thanks for your wise and patriotic observations on our Government's cringing to France. It is quite time it was...

A LETTER FROM AUSTRALIA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It can scarcely be a coincidence that within the last eighteen months we have had in Australia five visits of...

Nationalization has been strongly condemned by the Coal Commissioners in their Report, yet they have recommended that legislation should be passed to give effect to municipal...

Sin,-With reference to Mr. Thomas Carr's letter, may I point out that both Mr. Carr and M. Emile Cammaerts have incorrectly quoted W. S. Gilbert's blank verse Limerick ? A...

I enter a protest against the suggestion that better relations between the Americans and ourselves will be fur- thered by the publication of " frank opinions as to why we now...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR, ---I entirely agree with Mr. F. J. Pape, who asks why professional men boycott county education for their children. My income (earned) from various sources...

Sne,—In your notes of last week you refer somewhat severely to the style, accommodation and work done in the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford. It should be remembered...

[To' the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I be permitted to offer some remarks upon the recent decision by Parliament to preserve Grand Juries at Quarter Sessions ? The...

do a good deal of travelling in France. For the poor traveller it is indeed one of the best of countries. At hotels tipping has now been entirely abolished by an addition to the...

revival in a nd is likely to be indefinitely post pond unless employer and employed get together, and there is small prospect of them getting together so long as the Government...

of March 9th, in an article headed " Coal- Oil and Smoke," I see there is no reference made to the by, product item, Gas. Under the principles we are working on we can average...

the SPEcr.vron.] Sin,—On page 519 Mr. Buchan in dealing with liberties of the air points out that the young man on retiring from the R.A.F. does so more or less equipped for...

Sra,—I've just come home from attending the second annual meeting of the Life Subscribers to the Spectator with the Chairman of the Company and the. Editor .of the paper and his...

FESTIVAL IN TUSCANY To D. T. A Low stream slept by a winding track On a poplar-bordered plain, And here at dusk our way was barred At a forking in the lane. Smoking and...

froth the " Gasfitter " anciihe " Waggoner" are interesting, but in each of them allowance must be made -for artistic verisimilitude. The former - cheerfully alludes to his...

THE CASTLES OF BRITAIN [COPYRIGHT HIS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York Times.] FREntaic MYERS said rightly that words were often centres of emotional forces quite...

of Letters from William Blake to Thomas Butts. The price is 25s. To the growing army of Blake lovers - this will be - a treasured volume. A letter from Butts to Blake has never...

To the Golden Writing Room (thus was named the counting house of the ruggers at Augsberg) came letters from all the great cities of Europe retailing the latest news of wars,...

with 168 illustrations by himself. In My Life as an Explorer (Cassell, 25s.) we find wild yaks charging, lamas devil-dancing, hyenas feasting, nomads, robbers, wolves. This...

Where the cider apples grow " is a chorus only fourteen years old, but it has travelled the length and breadth of the British Empire. The reminiscences of its author, Mr. Fred...

edition of her Old Gardens of Italy (John Lane. 7s. 6d.). There is much curious and delightful information here. Alas that the Doria gardens at Genoa are now docks and an hotel,...

The Editor offered a prize of £5 for a quotation applicable lo the University Boat Race. [F the prize were awarded for any quotation from Virgil or Homer, there would scarcely...

Plain Speaking. By the , Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, (T. Fisher Unwin. 75. Bd.) THE origins and development of Christian belief must interest every thoughtful mind at Eastertide, or...

qUote Swinburne, of course) what would be said if the Spectator published, as it did in 1862, the shuddering apostrophe " To Faustine " ? Mr. Harold Nicolson has written a...

. GREAT men, M. Andre Mauroii Ibinks, are nice, but ' rather . . _ laughable. And so we had from him i eharniing and gracefill biogiaphy - of Sgelley ; and we all felt most...

IN his new poem Mr. Richard Church appears to be outgrowing his gravest fault ; which was an uneasy tension of the nerves, a constant, too superficial excitement. It often...

Naphtali. By C. Lewis Hind. (The Bodley Head. 15s.) Ma. Lewis HIND, iu addition to a pyramid of journalism, has no fewer than twenty-nine books to his credit ; it may be...

$2), is written for American journalists, but it is worthy of the attention of our own writers. A present-, ation of news in the following way (technically known as a " snapper...

The Annual Report of the Archaeological Survey of India 1924. Edited by Sir John Marshall.—The important dis- coveries at Harappa in the Punjab and Mohenjo Daro are dealt with...

PORTRAITS IN THE LONDON ZOO. By Silvia Baker. (Chiswick Press. 15s.) THESE portraits are pen-drawings very slightly tinted. They are clever and pleasing, but the artist is...

Compiled and Edited by Hermann Schnitzler. (Hutchinson. 25s.)—This is a book for reference rather than for reading. It is " a Handbook of Information " belonging to the library...

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works in Sanskrit literature show the great imaginative powers possessed by the very early feminists. Violence in feminism does not appeal to the Indian woman ; that stage was...

Press. 18s. net.) :THE learned Director of the Welsh National Museum has pro- 'duced a most interesting and valuable survey of all that is known about Wales from the Stone Age...

3 Steele's Road, N.W. 3. 10s. 6d.) PROFESSOR ROBERTSON is our leading authority on German literature, beside being a specialist of European reputation in the study of...

ADVENTURE OR NOTHING IT was a fine vehicle for his genius that Mr. Masefleld discovered when he wrote Sard Harker. Construction, plot, verisimilitude and all the sober virtues...

6d.)-Frederick Lenten is a sentimental novel of a good deal of charm. It begins like a detective story-with a sudden- death: An artist is wandering idly down a street in...

LITERATURE AND ART :-Swinburne. By Harold Nicolson. (Macmillan. 5i.)-The Note Books of Samuel Butler. Vol. 20. (Jonathan Cape. 21s.)-The Grasmere Words- worth. (Selwyn and...

THE FUTURE OF BRITISH TRADE BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. - DURING the past fortnight there have been certain public utterances on the subject of trade which deserve a wider audience...

Tax GOLD GORE. —An English madcap comedy which is really clever, swift and amusing. A SAILOR MADE MAN.—An old Harold Lloyd comedy reissued. SALLY, IRENE AND MARY —Three pretty...

At the meeting of the Eastern Bank the Chairman amply confirmed what had been said at the meeting of the Mercantile Bank-with regard to the great volume of exports-from India....

The Scottish Amicable Life Assurance Society is celebrating its centenary amidst conditions of great prosperity. At the recent annual.meeting the Chairman stated that the...

INTERNATIONAL DEBT. It is only natural that the general public should have been impressed*by the picturesque manner in which Mr. Winston Churchill dealt last week in the House...