freshly promised help of the Government, we must admit that the conditions are not by any means favourable for the drafting of a sensible policy by the miners. The Federation is...

M R. CHURCHILL'S speech about the coal dispute in the House Of Commons on Tuesday was in a new key. It might have been spoken by the Prime Minister. It was forthcoming and...

Labour and the Secretary for Mines in London. The miners had specially asked for this meeting and Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland had come hurriedly from Scotland and Colonel Lane Fox...

stoppage, though it had had most serious results, had not held up the life and industries of the country to anything like the extent that might have been anticipated. In these...

was that Mr. Smith said "I will fight a bit yet," but Mr. Cook issued a statement the next day to the effect that he was convinced that at least "some Ministers" wanted "the...

London, but nothing was decided except that the delegates' coact:nice must bear the responsibility, which is too much for the Executive. It is said that a majority of the...

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the Daily Herald, published on Monday, the day before his departure, an article entitled "Nothing but the Truth," on which he is to be congratulated. He pointed out that the...

required. He certainly said a helpful and important thing when he stated the opinion of the Government that the question of national or district agreements . would "never be...

label " re-eligible " would do nothing to ensure re-election. What, then, does M. Fromageot's proposal mean ? Frankly we can discover in it no meaning of practical value. A...

to be fading away. French coldness dealt it a blow from which it could hardly recover, but the British reply has probably finished it. Great Britain_ has said that she is quite...

opened by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, who called upon the Government to summon a conference on the coal dis- pute with "an open agenda." Mr. Lloyd George supported Mr. Ramsay...

a permanent member of the League Council. Great Britain has held, apparently with success, to the view that the number of permanent seats in the Council should not - bOacreased....

perplexing. There has been a marked advance of the Cantonese Red forces northwards into the Yangtze valley.. Yochow, a large city in the Hunan province. has fallen, and it is...

Adami, who has been Vice-Chancellor of Liverpool University since 1919. He did admirable administrative and other work there. He was a pathologist of great .eminence in his...

wits' end for money with which to exist, but Sir Francis Aglen has not failed to do his obvious duty of refusing to allow the Customs to be used as security for any new loans to...

How much of this was directly due to the Heimatbund we cannot say. We regret the trouble, but we cannot feel surprised. We publish elsewhere an article by Sir Robert Donald, who...

a very pleasing announcement to make to our readers. With our issue dated September 18th, and with the six following issues, we shall publish a Supplement containing a...

hours less than Miss Ederle's " record " time. Three days before Herr Wierkotter's performance, Mrs. Corson, an American, had also swum across. One fancies that experience has...

Bey might be saved. He was never ruthless and unscrupulous in the same degree as his colleagues, and he was undoubtedly a man of ability in finance. At the trial he delivered a...

condemned to death for a conspiracy against the life of the President of the Turkish Republic four of the surviving leaders of the Committee of Union and Progress. These were...

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101* ; on Wednesday week 101/i r ; a year ago 101*. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 85k; on Wednesday...

THE SPIRIT OF THE LEAGUE I T is essential that Germany should come into the League of Nations within the next few days as a permanent member of the Council. Too long the League...

A FTER the humiliating experiences we have had in the coal dispute we are at least entitled to hope that such hurricanes of ill wind will blow some good to somebody. We have no...

BY SIR ROBERT DONALD, G.B.E. M ADAME ALSACE is going through another crisis in her domestic affairs—suffering from a sort of domestic complex. She is not satisfied with things...

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is a layman with advanced views about Christ, and a Christian with advanced views about mankind. The social question is day and night companicn of his thoughts and his favourite...

A DRAMATIZED version of Dostoyevski's The Idiot has just been produced at the Barnes Theatre.* By a curious coincidence, a Russian newspaper edited abroad has just published a...

good opportunity of selling what they havelo offer—services, the work of their brain or their hands, the small possessions for which they no longer have any use, the products of...

A N author who can make his public pay seven-and- sixpence three times over, at intervals of a month, for one full-length book, is certainly not without financial acumen. But...

T HE giraffe is now found only in Africa, from North Bechuanaland and the Kalahari Desert to Kordofan the Sudan, the Congo, Nigeria. Formerly, however, it had a much wider range...

A FEw weeks ago I referred to the litter problem and the various steps which should be taken continuously to impress on the mind of the man in the street the duty of each...

DOSTOYEVSKY DRAMATIZED NOTHING, on first thoughts, could seem less promising than an attempt to adapt Dostoyevsky's enormous novel, The Idiot, to the stage. Will they try next,...

MR. ARNOLD Dotstrrscu has already secured his rightful place in the history of music. His life-long zeal and undying faith, however, have only lately begun to take effect. Now...

'THE tempo of modern life has increased so rapidly during the last ten years that it seems as though the modern man must look for his music more and more to the annual...

A LETTER FROM TANGIER [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Though much space has been devoted in the daily Press to the statement of French, Italian, and Spanish views on...

A BREWER'S SCHEME OF TEMPERANCE REFORM -• [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] believe that moat of the advantages of the Carlisle nil other schemes, as well as nationalization of...

the SPECTATOR.] " Parson's Wife "informed you recently that she has an income of eleven hundred pounds, with free rent. That is an 'excellent income in any country at any time....

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SIR,—May I hope that among your many subjects of interest You will not lose sight of the affairs of the City and University of Oxford ? As a neighbouring landowner remarks :...

SIR,—The sudden and untimely death of Mr. Harold Russell will cast a shadow over a wide circle of friends. He was an outstanding man—a man whose place in many lives it will be...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—There is another side to the interesting picture drawn by your contributor of the Morris motor works and their founder. The fair City of Oxford is a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Many people who ardently desire pure air and a smokeless sky feel that the associations for the promotion of those conditions are mistaken...

DEATH AND CHANGE THE farmer with sickle cuts down the bright corn To raise food for the people. And hills are disrupted and grievously torn For bells in the steeple. Chill...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sui,—There is one incident in Dr. Eliot's career _which ought to be recalled in England while his name is in the public mind. He was a staunch...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Towards the end of your leader on "the fourth stump in cricket," you say : "but all this is mere theorizing." Something very similar to...

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Cruising (J. D. Potter, 21s. net) has peached a third edition, for it is a success thoroughly deserved. The chapter on "The Manage- ment of Yachts in Bad Weather" has become...

Street, W.C. 2) is devoted entirely to St. Francis, and has an article in it by Miss Underhill which alone would make it a number to buy and keep. The " nature mysticism" of St....

, The latest volume of the " Said " series (The Toys of Peace By H. H. Munro, John Lane, 3s. 6d.) is not quite as funny as its predecessors, but the delicious irony and deft...

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which is devoted to the interests of that Province, in Great Britain. There are many interesting features—for instance, a column about a Mr. Smith who admitted to making 119,000...

AUTUMN is approaching. To star-worshippers it is what the spring of the year is to botanists and gardeners. We shall soon see the mighty hunter Orion stride up out of the south-...

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times to fall into the state of mind of the Psalmist, and believe that ' All the earth is full of darkness and cruel habitations.' Therefore I should like to see the result of...

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WE know the argument. Perhaps we know its force. Empires and civilizations have died in the past. Is there anything unique in Our own civilization to save it from following all...

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THE Bodley Head, for six shillings, gives us a reprint of the curious sixteenth-century poetical collection of love-poems entitled Willobie His Avisa, which puipoits to be "for...

Tins is an attractive book, for every one of us likes a good trial, although people are often ashamed to admit it. Mr. Horace Wyndham has selected here fourteen causes celebres...

Tim late Sir Rickman Godlee's A Village on the Thames (Allen, is: 6d.) is a gem. Reading this book is ince taking a country ramble with a friend (emphatically with a friend) who...

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THE EXCHEQUER AND THE COAL -CRISIS BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. In the course- of the discussion last month between member i of the Government and the miners and officials Mr. Winston...

THE 1927 DAIMLER CAR I dive just returned from a delightful week's tour in a Daimler car, and during this time approximately a thousand miles were covered. An excellent...

Not the least important feature of the various sections of the Harmsworth Press has been the remarkable ability dis- played throughout on the business side. At the recent annual...

CONTINUED OPTIMISM. Wrrri the coal crisis manifestly at a critical stage it is not surprising that business on the Stock Markets should have been restricted during the past...

It is always difficult—it might be said impossible--to dis- cern those directions in which speculative activity in markets is most likely to break out. At the present moment,...

I must congratulate Lloyds Bank upon having published a really attractive brochure explaining to the man in the street the advantages of a banking account, and the many useful...