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many other coal disputes. In the past the miners have generally held out with great stubbornness, and also, of course, with a loyalty to their cause that was admirable in...

L AST week we said that the static situation, the trench warfare, in the coal dispute was being broken down by the introduction of the Eight Hours Bill. Since then the general...

the Report was more valuable because simpler. We cannot help feeling that the Government showed a want of imagination at this point. When these speeches were published they...

the idea of putting the Report as a whole into operation. But this is not so if we may judge from the Speech of Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland last Saturday. Sir Arthur said that the...

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strong protest was made against the Colour-bar Act in South Africa. It was argued that from the point of view of maintaining the wages of white men the Act would fail, but that...

he regarded. an Electoral Reform Bill as urgently necessary. It was agreed that there should be a full debate on finance in the Chamber next Tuesday. Outside the Chamber, M....

Commons on Monday and Tuesday, and received its Second Reading at the end of the debate on Tuesday. The debate of Tuesday was particularly rowdy. The Labour members are falling...

On Tuesday it was announced that the Conservative leader, Mr. Meighen, had formed a Govern- ment and that he held it to be his duty to conclude the work of the session. It had...

time on Tuesday. Its reception was not at all encouraging. It is the simple truth to say that the whole civilized world watches with anxious sympathy the attempt of France to...

the Chamber that the life of the nation was at stake. "The time," he said—we quote from the Times—" for dispute is past. It is not a question of debating, but of acting and...

June 25th, revealed very little that was new. The Russians always behave in the same preposterous and futile way and their behaviour causes the same division here as before. The...

London Telephone Directory is to be printed with three instead of two columns on each page. The saving of paper will be enormous. We assume that more abbreviations will be...

from Russian trade unions for the help of the miners was really a compulsory levy sanctioned by the Soviet Government. Nevertheless, as it was not being used here for...

in their own right had no hereditary claim whatever to admission. Their peerages had been con- ferred on them solely in order that, if possible, a peerage might be saved for the...

English cricketers hold their heads up again and are perhaps wondering why they ever lowered them. The English batting, bowling and fielding were all first rate. It would not be...

was a large attendance to debate Lord Astor's Bill which would permit peeresses in their own right to sit in Parliament. Lord Cecil stated well and clearly the obvious...

withdrawn from the Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon. If this means that she will never play at Wimbledon again it is really the end of an epoch. Those who have not seen...

with Russia, and the White Book, of course, provided him with plenty of material. A speech full of common sense was that of •Mr. Hilton Young, who argued that the consequences...

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101 ; on Wednesday week 1001 ; a year ago 991. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 801; on Wednesday week...

CABINET ETIQUETTE T HE questions asked of the Foreign Secretary and the Prime Minister in the House of Commons on Mond ay in regard to Russian relations generally, • and Mr....

T HE trouble behind the Canadian crisis of the past few days has been not that Canadians do not know how to deal with certain corrupt administrators of the Customs, but that...

[Mr. Robert Boothby, the Unionist member for East Aberdeen. shire, visited Russia with three other Unionist M.P.s. They spordi part of April and May, 192(1, in Moscow, and...

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M ORE than half a century has passed since Disraeli, ridiculed by his half-witted political opponents for his "policy of sewage," gave us the Public Health Act, restoring a pure...

BY NEW MEMBER. T HE debate on Russia on Friday of last week was distinguished by Commander Locker-Lampson's oratory, Mr. Lloyd George's wit, and Sir Austen Chamberlain's...

SEINE F ROM the golden statue of Jeanne d'Arc to the grey towers of Notre-Dame,- and- beyond, stretches a long line of zinc-covered boxes. They are the boxes of the second-hand...

Through such valleys passage is possible only by following the game-tracks—tracks of elephant, hippo- potamus and buffalo. Wherever an elephant has passed the grass is crushed...

VVERYTHING conspires to - make this a lawn-tennis - 12 . 4 age. Cricket can by played only in summer, and for most of `us takes far too long to allow regular play. Golf can•be...

THE saturation point of the American automobile industry is a subject which has long exercised technical writers in the American Press. The Literary Digest prints an extract...

TWO FRENCH PLAYS [` THE YEARS BETWEEN." BY JEAN JACQUES BERNARD( EVERYMAN THEATRE.] ['MOZART." By SACIIA GU1TRY. MUSIC BY REI - NALDO HAHN. GAIETY THEATRE.] JEAN JACQUES...

A LETTER FROM CAM BR! 1)(; E [To The Editor of The SPECTATOR.] one must start with the weather, it is enough to say that the May Term (though not the May Week) of 1926 has...

ZURICH MUSICAL FESTIVAL UNDER the genial and wise presidency of Mr. Edward Dent, the International Society for Contemporary Music continues its heterogeneous life. Only a man...

SENATOR BORAH [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sit,—An English journalist may well hesitate to criticize the able London representative of the Baltimore Sun on a matter...

Sin,—I had a Continental friend staying with me not long ago. He picked up the Daily Herald one day, and read it through. When he put it down T asked him what he thought of...

as if he, at any rate, were convinced of the truths of his Socialistic theories, but his assertions are hardly calculated to convince others. You have given some very cogent...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,---Do English people, on the whole, realize the harm done by the employment of negroes in large numbers in our mer- chant ships ? A short...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I thank Mr. Fryer for his courteous letter with regard to my review of Dr. Nolloth's and Chancellor P. V. Smith's books on the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—My attention has been drawn to the article by Mr. McCance on my work in your issue of June 19th. While thanking him for his generous...

SIR,—I will not ask for space to refute the charge that I have 'wild white fingers," and am "snatching at the skies," or to reply to your Chester correspondent who calls me...

[To The Editor of Ilse SPECTATOR.] Sin,--Your leader on the industrial prospect in the current issue of the Spectator reflects the opinion of many moderate people who, while...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,— I can bear out from my early recollections Mr. St. Lac Strachey's point as to the bad behaviour of officers when drilling German...

like my shadow. I have just read Mr. G. F. Bridge's comment in your issue of June 19th on Mr. St. Loe Strachey's story, and I must say from my experience the story is far nearer...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] "The first open-air Sanatorium for children ever set up in this country, at Stannington, fourteen miles north of liewcastle—and recently...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--In his article in the Spectator of June 19th, "Crusader does not necessarily imply that Dr. Palm was first or alon: in attributing...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOIL] SIR,—In the frequent references to "Children's Allowances" in your columns I have never seen definitely stated (what was certainly the case...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—If we are to attach a literal meaning to the description of Sir Jagadis Chander Bose's experiments and the theory which he seems to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The David Copperfield Library at Johnson Street, Somers Town, is in urgent need of funds. Each evening, children of this hard-up...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR] Sm,—You will be interested to know that although I am in a business which handles a very large volume of English periodical literature, your...

BARE WALLS "BARE walls ? " she cried in horror at my room, "Bare walls for you who write ? I'll carry down A picture—I've a lovely thing in brown— An lnness, with a heron...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—May I object to the statement (p. 907) " that the danger of tramlines to other traffic is very small " ? I consider it very serious,...

So far the sum of £81 17s. has been subscribed by readers of the Spectator to the Children's Country Holidays Fund, which means that as a result of our appeal 81 London...

THE HISTORY OF SPIRITUALISM [03F1WOHT HI THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York Times.] The History of Spiritualism. By Arthur Conan Doyle. (Cassell. 2 volumes, 42s. net...

The Competition for a list of the seven greatest Victorians closes on .Itily2nd. The result Will be announced in our next issue, July 10th. ,

How to be Happy in Paris without being Ruined. This is a small guide to Paris, very, up to date and practical. Messrs. Arrowsmith arc to be congratulated on producing it at ps...

at a reviewer's elbow urged us to close Mr. Lothrop Stoddard's Scientific Humanism - (Seribners, 7s. 6d.) when we reached the following footnote : "Roger Bacon, one of the...

An omission from last week's suggestions for holiday reading was the Summer Number of Punch (Is.), which is as good as ever—in fact better.

some of the most enlightened thought of our time. They are recent lectures by Dean Inge and Dr. Leonard Huxley. In the Fison Memorial Lecture (Longmans, Green, Is.) the Dean of...

boy. Even in his childhood he refused to accept any- thing that he could not reason out for himself. Particularly he would never repeat lessons ; he could not be induced to...

MESSRS. ROBERT HOLDEN publish The Lawn Tennis Guide by Mr. F. Gordon Lowe, 3s. 6d. This is ar well-planned book which should do much to smooth the path of the "rabbit," and even...

Broadway, New York City, sends us a pamphlet on Sportsmanship, "a bridge of understanding amongst the nations of the world." The laudable idea of this society is well expressed...

of crime and Criminals in Black Fame (Hutchinson. 5s.). We are most of us interested in crime, whatever . we may say to the contrary, and why not ? The love letters of ....

Ouroboros. By Caret Garrett. (Kegan Paul. 2s. Gd.) Now that civilized nations are beginning to understand that it is pleasanter to make things by machines and sell them in...

Regency Ladies. By Lewis Melville. (Hutchinson. 21s.) THERE never was such a nightmare as the Regency period. Amid the errors of King George III's coronation the Earl Marshal...

Charles Buller and Responsible Government. By E. Wrong. (Clarendon Press. 158. net.) Mn. WRONG, as a Canadian historian who teaches at Oxford, is specially qualified to do...

Problems of Bird Migration. By A. Landsborough Thomson. (Witherby. 188.) British Birds. Volume III. By Archibald Thorburn. (Long. mans. 16s. net.) Insect Life and the...

after the strike we must deal in a short and summary way with a number of books in this column. * * * Miss Davison's Our Prehistoric An- cestors (Methuen, 7s. 6d.) is...

(Cassell. 7s. 6d. net.) MR. KEARTON'S reminiscences are told with delightful sim - plicity. Perhaps his profession as a lecturer on natural history has made him alert to the...

MR. TERRY takes us on an enthralling series of adventures. In his faithful Ford, " Lizzie," we traverse desert wastes with him and cross swollen and seemingly impassable rivers,...

Tins is a valuable work ; not exciting at all and rather stiff to read, but full of information. Mr. Childe's purpose has been to survey impartially all the serious theories...

"the French are not a nation of supermen." And therefore, in consonance with his professions, he gives us a very human, anti-heroic picture of the state of France under the...

Co. Os. net.) Dn. ARENDZEN, a Roman Catholic defending the Faith against Modern criticism, has written a delightful little book which will interest all who are perplexed...

For the Council of Social Service, Is.) SOME years ago valuable surveys of social work and conditions in Oxford and Cambridge were made by Miss Butler and Miss Eglantyne Jebb....

Fonibcrinbo will doubtless not be baffled by the rather involved and difficult beginning of Mr. Stribling's new novel. Others may be disconcerted by the confusion of events and...

of short stories of which the account of a little boy s outing in a " chairybang " and the description of a char- woman's evening work are the most successful. Indeed, the...

7s. 6d. net.)—It is, of course, impossible for so prolific a writer as Mr. Phillips Oppenheim always to attain his highest standard, and it must be confessed that The Golden...

0. Witherby. 20s. net.) Tins is a most valuable and interesting monograph, illus- trated by a hundred and forty photographs and drawings, and two plates in colour. The substance...

is. (k. net.) OxE of the most engaging occupations for an antiquary is to try to follow back to their origin the names of some of our old inns. Mr. Monson-Fitz.john quotes an...

a pamphlet on painting. It is called "a popular guide" to his Gallery, but it is in no sense a catalogue of that famous collection. It is a history of painting in Europe and is...

BARRICADE. By John Presland. (Philip Allan. 7s. 6d. net.) —Mr. Presland describes revolutionary Vienna in 1848, and gives us not only an interesting and exciting story, but a...

experience, on the secret of receptivity in prayer at which so many people stumble. The author departs from St. John's Gospel in depersonalizing truth. He writes of a side of...

entertaining account of an American social climber who, beginning as a leader of fashion in Eureka, Ohio, rises to be a parasite in the social circle of Newport itself. The...

7s. 6d. net)-This delightful title is taken from a Japanese proverb, "In the market-place there is money ; but under the cherry tree there is rest and peace." Mr. Peter Traill...

Gilchrist. With a Preface by Eden Phillpotts. (Faber and Gwyer. 88. 6d. net.)-Mr. Eden Phillpotts in his intro- duction criticizes this collection with much more truth and...

book, though it has the almost inevitable signs of imma- turity belonging to a first novel, gives a very vivid description of a girl in a farm near Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia,...

and Norgate. 3s. 6d.)-Mr. Britten Austen's very alarming stories are sponsored by "Ole Luk-Oie," whose writings gave much food for thought to all students of pre-War Military...

is only interested in engines, horse- power and invoices. He learns by bitter experience that, unlike engines, "Love will not be constrained by maslery."

Phillpotts. (Grant Richards. 6s. net.)-Anyone who is weary of the bustle and noise of the modern world will be charmed with Mr. Eden Phillpotts' classical experiments. Purists...

THE PAST HALF YEAR BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY, AT the beginning of 1926, business men viewed the year with some apprehension. There were not wanting ludic*. tions of improverhent in...

MISCELLANEOLIS.-Influencing Human Behaviour. By H. A. Overstreet. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) Heredity. 5th Edition By J. Arthur Thomson. (Murray. 21s.) River Thames. By F. V. Morley....

Tuesday, July 6th, at 5.30 p.m.-Is SCIENTIFIC INVENTION BECOMING A NUISANCE? Professor A. M. Low and MT. E. V. Knox (" Evoe " of Punch) will speak. In aid of King Edward's...

MARINE INSURANCE LOSSES. SHORTLY after the War there was quite a boom in the forma- tion of new insurance companies to take advantage on the one hand of the absence of the...

Although this company has not yet entered the dividend lists, the recent Annual Report and the statements at the General Meeting show that some progress is being made, and the...