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hours in a fortnight should be worked, but that the eight-hour day should be shortened.. The miners, according to this plan, would at least recover their ideal of a regular six...

—which was introduced into the Mines - Act by the House of Lords and. turned out to be a godsend—would tide over several awkward- weeks or months. There was a fair hope that...

write on Thursday, a stoppage seems to be inevitable. If there should not be a quick settlement the next step in logic would be an extension of the dispute to Scotland and then,...

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The Coal Dispute disorders of the - coal mining industry have several 1. times driven the public to exasperation and the public is not far from that state of mind now. The issue...

of- another deplorable outrage in India. Sir Geoffrey de Mont- morency, who succeeded Sir Malcolm Hailey as Governor of the Punjab in 1928, was fired on as he was leaving the...

as this poll was called, was indeed timely. In spite of the plentiful good will and the particularly impressive appeals of the Begum Shah Nawaz and Mrs. Subbarayan before the...

Weavers' Amalgamation met in Manchester and decided not to accept the new system of " more looms to a weaver." The decision was taken in collaboration or in sympathy with that...

reason the coal industry should be Managed - ultitriately on a national basis. If there is to be an international fixing of prices the British coal industry Must be repre-...

at last being properly appreciated is perhaps the one bright spot in a horizon otherwise dark. In his speech at the annual dinner of the European Association on December 22nd,...

Burma. In the Tharawaddy district, some eighty miles from Rangoon, on Christmas Day, one of the tribal leaders known as " The Golden Crow," who is apparently the object of...

of responsible self-government, i.e., Dominion status, and leave the minorities problem to settle itself in easier circumstances. It is " up to " the British delegates to make a...

ternational Conference on the limitation of dangerous drugs. It is proposed to allocate to each of the manufacturing countries (few in number) a maximum quantity of the...

generosity of early last year when he presented to the National Trust the fort of Borcovicus and three quarters of a mile of Hadrian's Wall. He -has now conveyed to trustees,...

on health in the schools is more satisfactory than could have been expected. In spite of the wide and • deep depression- in the North of England there has been no appreciable...

done well to appoint Mr. john W. Dulanty as High Commissioner in London in succession to Professor T. A. Smiddy. He was Principal Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions, and he...

of the best ever published. A comparison of it with some of the lists immediately after the War revives the hope that honours can be saved in the mass from both ridicule and the...

the purchase of the thousand millionth Savings Certificate. Nearly £500,000,000 has been invested in Certificates. The Movement moreover encourages other forms of thrift by...

Director of the British Museum for twenty-one years, and has served it for forty, retired on Wednesday. It is largely owing to his organization of public lectures and...

M.P., seems to be the only one of the four new Peers who may help the Government in the House of Lords. All the four new Peers are drawn from the scientific and professional...

Edward S. Harkness, the founder of the Pilgrim Trust, has given £35,000 to Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, for new buildings. The flow of munificence from the Harkness family seems...

on May 1st, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 103f ; on Wednesday week, 103 ; a year ago, 103 i l l • Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 94i ; on Wednesday...

we are told that the nation is charging downwards to demoralization. Evidently old and ingrained habits are tenacious in spite of all the excuses—of which we fully admit the...

I N time to come all the books of all the economists who in our day- have tried to harmonize contra- dictory industrial theories-and so to rescue Great Britain from failure may...

Unemployment A S unemployment cannot be dealt with until its various causes are understood, it may be worth while to suggest that the replacement of men by machines has more to...

women presenting the outlook of the younger generation have been invited to express their criticism of organized religion in order that their views may be answered from the...

By Tun RT. HON. LORD SALVESEN, P.C., K.C., LL.D. T HE Spectator has already published two articles from different standpoints on the above subject, but none from the point of...

BY HORACE G. ALEXANDER. [Mr. Alexander is a member of the Society of Friends, and Professor of International Relations at Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham.—En. Spectator.] I T...

By KAREL CAPEK (Translated by PAUL SELvEa). RE'S no getting away from it," said old Mr. Itla" ras. " If a man were to rummage in his past, he'd find Material in it for a whole...

BY BERNARD DARWIN. O N the grass plot outside my window I can see an enormous Alsatian puppy—she is almost full-grown now—learning to do tricks for pieces of dog-biscuit. It is...

BY E. S. DUFFIN. [This story was chosen by Dr. M. R. James as a close rival to the one to which he awarded the prize in our Ghost Story Competition last week. —ED. Spectator.]...

BY R. C. K. Exson. DICK to pieces in your mind almost any landscape which is not dominated by sea or mountain ; ask what gives it beauty, charm, distinction, or the reverse ;...

The machinery for arresting the progrea4 of these pleasant and dangerous vehicles, appears to be still extremely deficient.. On Wednesday evening, while some men were attempting...

A young man, named Thomas, shot himself, in John Street, Hanway Street, on Monday, in consequence of a love disappoint menu. It appeared that the foolish lad worked in a shop in...

By F. YEATS-BROWN. N INE lions and a tiger arc shown at Olympia, also twelve sea-lions. The rest of the circus is as good as I have ever seen. More's the pity that it should be...

On Sunday night, four miserable creatures were discovered, half dead with cold, huddled together under one of the dry arches of London Bridge. They had collected a little straw,...

A serving-wench, left in charge. of a little girl in Edinburgh, a few weeks ago, m her anxiety to disengage herself of the task of attend- ing to her, dosed the child with...

A NEW l'oExt by RABINDRANATIL TAGOID: " PERSIAN ART " by SIR C. DENISON Ross How TO ABOLISH SLUMS " : by ALFRED 'Bossom " Tan CONTROL OF TIME DRINK MADE " : by B. Suratoom...

that attractive alien, the larch, beloved of Tennyson but hated by Wordsworth, who published an angry protest against its un-English greenery. Lord Crawford, who says nothing of...

A very considerable number of animals from abroad are being released in England. I am not thinking of the more notorious aliens : the grey squirrel, the little owl, or even the...

Another aspect of England and of Britain is presented by Lord Crawford and Balcarres in as charming an essay as any countryman could desire. He calls it The Personality of...

Everyone—it is one of the best signs of the times—is taking the question of agriculture seriously : "rural bias" is in vogue. One of the latest pleaders is Mr. Cloudesley...

OXFORD TOADS. This is a true story of the recent colonization of North Oxford with a batrachian population. A lady with a charming Eden, in which the only snake was a plague of...

Perhaps I may recall to gardeners in general the success of a resident in North London who imported a hedgehog from Epping. It was chiefly remarkable, as recorded at the time,...

Lord Ernie, who writes a preface, quotes that dreadful pronouncement made not long since by M. Herriot, once Prime Minister of France : " We are witnessing the death agonies of...

varieties of pheasant, they include Amhersts, Reeve's, Eliot, Golden, Silver, Japanese Versicolor, Melanistic Mutants and many others. There are two qualities in the various...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, I observe letters from Mr. Leonard Woolf and Mr. St. John Ervine on the difficult and supremely important question of B.B.C. controversy....

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snt,—The writer of your article on capital punishment in your issue of December 20th does much less than justice to the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I found most provocative the article by Sir Rennet( Rodd entitled " The Dangers of the New Diplomacy," in your issue of December 20th....

who believe that Christianity has everything to gain by free and frank discussion of its claims are grateful to the Spectator for the series of articles entitled " The Challenge...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Having read with great interest the letter from your Moscow correspondent in your issue of December 20th, I would like to say that I admire your decision to...

assertion that groups and unstable governments are produced more rapidly under Proportional' Representation than with single member constituencies would be more convincing if...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The New Year of 1931 marks a definite stage in the history of municipal housing in this country. For under the last Housing. Act, Local Authorities had to...

lover, I deeply deplore the fact that performing animal turns are tolerated in this country, supposed to be humane. They are only a relic of bygone and barbarous times, the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Spectator having taken the lead in calling . attention to the unspeakable cruelty involved in the current methods of trapping animals...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—From time to time in letters dealing with some aspects of cruelty, reference has been made to the Spectator's stand for reform, but I...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Joseph Woodward, in his letter to you on the subject of performing animals, describes the charges which the R.S.P.C.A. makes against...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—We have a small rough-haired terrier bitch. My wife goes in for turkeys and as these are hatched out they are fed by hand. The terrier...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] . SIR,—The correctness of my letter to the Spectator of November 22nd was established at the recent quarterly meeting of the Executive of the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—My attention has been called to the article in your issue of October 25th, and the reference therein to the munificent gift of Mr. Insull...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, I should like to pay a tribute to the memory of Lieut.- Colonel N. S. Simpson, I.M.S., Inspector-General of Prisons, Bengal, who was...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,--An old lady, of pronounced humanitarian views, sug- gested to me this Christmas that all the people who take such delight in Christmas...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,- - What exactly is Mr. Stephen Coleridge's position ? Does he mean (a) that animal experiments have produced no useful knowledge ? or (b)...

[From the French of Paul Verlaine.] THE shepherd's star burns dim, Sinks in the night. The pilot fumbles for his light. Now is the time for him, Dark skies above, Whose hand...

Permit me to address you on a matter of some public importance. I would ask, in view of the ever-increasing number of fatal gas-poisonings, whether the dilution of straight...

Many supporters of the hospital will have been attracted by Lady Muriel Willoughby's suggestion in your columris regarding the presentation of coupon gifts to the patients...

Hospital, has already suggested, the coupon-gift system now so much in vogue ought to be made to help the hospitals. Many people who do not trouble to collect their coupons, not...

With reference to your comments in Nature Notes entitled " A Slur on Sport," might I, with all deference, make a helpful suggestion as regards future slaughtering ? I suggest...

May I reply to your correspondent of December 27th, and to others who have written to me ? My letter was abbreviated in printing. I had added that were the bar against domestic...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] would be so grateful if you would draw attention to the performance of the Chester Nativity Play, in aid of a summer Play Centre for little...

Avoca the many. pamphlets received by those interested in varying sides of _life, we hope no. reader will- neglect B.B.C. Talks (issued free on personal application to the...

the English reader's ideas of - Strindberg are limited to two—that he was mad, and that he was a fanatical hater of women. It is appropriate that the issue last year of the...

8s. 6d.), hardly at all autobiographical, is practically a compressed history of the 110th Brigade, which formed part of the 21st Division. It contains the sober, singularly...

Mr. Feiling and Miss Trevelyan, have been followed by a book on the same theme in Queen Anne's day. The Dutch Barrier, 1705-19 (Cambridge University Press, 21s.), contains an...

makes any attempt at discerning criticism seem irrelevant. He touches nothing which he does 'not transform into the same graphic, palpitating, and, above all, thoroughly...

SUPPOSING your bookshelf. came to life and yyou were able to invite six characters from English fiction to dine with you, which six would make the most pleasant party and with...

Scenes and Portraits. By Frederick Manning. (Peter Davies. 7s. 6d. ) Timm are some unlucky and misguided people who say that they cannot abide the dialogue form, thus shutting...

C. Fillip'. (The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho - Analysis. 21s.) So difficult is it to attain objectivity in this matter of clothes that many people, I imagine,...

and full of significantly tabulated facts. Moreover, the enthusiasm of our Chief Medical Officer adds to the popu- larity, and possibly to the effectiveness, of these reports ;...

The United States of Europe. By E. Horriot. Translated by R. J. Dingle. (Harrap. 12s. 6d.) IT is difficult not to suspect that this book was first conceived in the brain of its...

annual collection of Essays by Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature. The ponderous caption suggests the usual table, glass of water and lecture : one discovers, instead,...

Memories (1851-1929). By Abel Chapman. (Gurney and Jackson. 218.) AMONG Mr. Chapman's friends and schoolfellows was F. C. Selous, one of the most ardent naturalists and youngest...

A Woman of the Tudor Age. By Lady Cecilio Goff. (John Murray. 18s.) LADY Ceeilie Goff has collected under the title A Woman of the Tudor Age, an immense amount of interesting...

Memoir of J. E. C. Bodley. By Shane Leslie. (Jonathan • Cape. 15s.) JOHN EDWARD COURTENAY BODLEY is chiefly known to the literary world as the author of Modern France, and as...

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6s.)—This appears to be Miss Mackenzie's first book, but if it is it must be the fruit of much writing and burning of what was written by the author, for the artistic method...

7s. 6d.)—In this book Mr. Birkett continues his chron- icles of the North-country town of Overton. The parochial self-satisfactions of others are seldom endearing, and, though...

Three Visitors A Childhood. By Hans Carossa. (Seeker. 6s.) Da. CAROSSA very properly entitles his book A Childhood (Eine Kindheit), since it has not—as a whole—the universal...

WE offered a prize for the best New Year Resolutions for eight of the following members of the public :—The Prime Minister, The Home Secretary, The Chancellor of the Exchequer,...

Oen weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mrs. P. R. Green, .I.P., 17 Beverley Road, Colchester, for the following :-...

(Continued from page 20.) Captain Fergusson was a brave and gallant gentleman, who was murdered in 1927 by the Nuer, over whom for years he had had the sole-administrative...

Low, 6s.) is a sort of guide to the various branches of our bureaucracy and government institutions—to their architecture, • historical development and present-day . duties. The...

Dr. Ramsay Smith puts Australian culture yet one more volume further away from permanent extinction. The myths and legends which he has here collected will appeal to the...

fewer still get them printed. But Mr. Theodore Edward Jones, who has produced an ode on St. Asaph Tower, is actuated by a very definite and worthy. purpose. He tells the story...

History of the Vikings (Methuen, 18s.), that there is in English no sub- stantive history which covers the whole extent of the activities of those daring robbers, merchantmen...

are to be congratulated on the, publication of The Handbook of Tanganyika (Macmillan, - 10s.). This is a volume of over 600 pages, well illustrated and more than usually well...

the. tithes of many, parishes. were . ppropriated, by local magnates and, with Papal sanction, to monastic houses. Bishops made it their business to see that the parish churches...

15s.) that it is " the first biography " of that interesting rogue and amorist " for a considerable time." In American it may be ; but in English our feeling is that a life of...

Dealing with these points in their reverse order, I think it should be frankly recognized that among the many causes contributing to depression and lack of confidence during the...

the mind to come across an author who seeks to rehabilitate the view that intelligence is a special, innate faculty of life. In The Psychology of Intelligence and Will (Regan...

A little •consideration, however, will show that most of the unfavourable influences enumerated have combined to reduce the demands for accommodation whether fOr the purpose of...

has buried the past year without lamentations though any feelings of relief which may have been experienced at the thought of its conclusion were restrained by a recognition of...

21s.), was written in 1908. The theme of the play is the working out of the sins of a past life, knowledge of which is granted to Deirdre in her most famous incarnation, in...

- With regard to domestic politics, it is easier perhaps to discern the possibilities of the situation. The position is one which certainly suggests continued unsettlement, at...

INVESTMENT STOCKS FIRM. Ai:mot:Gil there was less than the usual end-of-the-year optimism in the stock markets this week, the tone on the whole was a little more cheerful than...

1. Newt, nonce, nickname.-2. Auger, apron, umpire, adder- 3. Restive (originally, inert).-4. Bent, from one Banting, who invented the process, 1864.-5. Amen, ally.-6. Double...

Thanks to the conservative policy adopted for some years by the Sulphide Corporation, the directors are now able to produce a sound balance-sheet, albeit the net profit for the...

It is along this line of reasoning that we can, perhaps, best get an inkling of the likely course of money rates (hiring the present year. Here I think the principal keys to the...

At the end of last year the Federal Reserve Bank in New York reduced its Official Discount rate from 21 to 2 per cent., and the Clearing Banks in that city brought down n :...