will have formed a very different impression of the man. He has never spared himself in fighting for the rights of the seaman ; he has won countless victories by reason,...

is quite rightly given to miners and others who follow notoriously dangerous trades it is too often for- gotten—presumably because these things are out of sight— that other...

about the revolutionary influences which are at the back of the strike. As we have said, we are not at all inclined to take the cry of revolution too seriously, but unquestion-...

T HE strangely widespread shipping strike has been the most remarkable event of the week. Ostensibly the strike is against a reduction of wages, and if this were the whole cause...

began about a fortnight ago, when Mr. Walsh (the President of the Seamen's Union at Sydney) and Mr. johannsen incited British seamen arriving at Sydney to repudiate the...

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Well, do not commit any aggression and there will be no trouble." But actually that argument is not quite good enough. It begs the whole question. As regards the first point...

day, and next week the Assembly will reopen. No ques- tion which affects Great Britain is at the moment attracting more attention than the problem of Mosul, involving as it does...

to revise the Peace Treaty." But Germany knows perfectly well that France will not dream of consenting to that. She ought to remember that Great Britain is compelled by the...

and it has been felt here specially at Southampton and Avonmouth. The Port of London has been less affected. Behind all this there are, as we have pointed out elsewhere, minds...

of Security, has accepted the invitation to take part in a legal conference. That is a distinct point to the good. The Notes which have been exchanged could not have served a...

Great Britain, it is safe to say, would not contemplate the possibility of continuing the mandate for Iraq, which under the present arrangement will end in August, 1928. It...

for the establishment of a Common- wealth police force to carry out the orders of the Central Government. After heated debates he succeeded in passing this legislation, but he...

British Chamber of Commerce and the China Association, at a full meeting on Monday, passed a resolution in favour of giving prompt effect to the decisions of the Washington...

at Southampton. The range of subjects dealt with in the numerous sections is so vast that a fair summary is impossible. We have written elsewhere of Professor Horace Lamb's...

railways for London. The convenience of the existing passenger railways is enormous and the benefit they confer on the streets by keeping at any moment some thousands of...

easy between Marshal Lyautey and Marshal Petain and that the plans for the French campaign in Morocco have been impeded, as always happens under such conditions. Marshal Lyautey...

and was a fairly prominent industrialist in Germany during the War, burst later into a glare of fame as by far the greatest manufacturing and commercial magnate on the...

Mexico. The failures of Mexican Governments to protect British subjects and to compensate them for losses were long a cause of tension, but the summary expulsion of Mr. Cummins,...

on August 6th, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Thursday Zift ; on Thursday week 10111 ; a year ago 1011. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Thursday 891 ; on Thursday week...

THE DEBT NEGOTIATIONS WITH FRANCE T IERE seems to be the maximum of confusion and misunderstanding in regard to the essential issues connected with the French Debt. In the...

T HE extremist movements of Labour are like a heath fire. The fire seems to be extinguished and the fire beaters are ready to put on their coats and go home when some favouring...

upon the triumphs that science had achieved—new modes of travel and communication, new medicines, new fires, new lamps, discoveries and inventions of a thousand kinds—they were...

G ERMANY was our chief coal competitor before the War. In 1913 she exported 34,000,000 tons of black coal, plus about 20,000,000 tons of coke, brown coal (lignite), briquettes...

Capitalism v. Socialism in the United States need not confine himself to the hospitals or universities dowered by princely financiers ; he can also betake himself to the Museums...

with a. vertigo. I was impelled to cast myself down from the walls of Chester. I held on to them till a person going from Jerusalem to Jericho appeared, and then asked his hand...

L ONDON is the home of innumerable birds, and is becoming a centre for the cult of birds. Very many of the churches—St. Pancras, for example, as well as St. Paul's—have such a...

A N offer has recently been made by Mr. Kane, said to be an American producer, to give £1,000 towards founding a Chair of Cinematography in one of the large American...

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AN ENGLISHWOMAN'S IMPRESSIONS ' OF THE PARIS EXHIBITION [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—This is no learned treatise on the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs ; no technical...

HAMLET IN PLAIN CLOTHES IT was fortunate for Sir Barry Jackson's plain-clothes revival of Hamlet at the Kingsway Theatre that the play may or must begin in almost total...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The letter of Mr. Barnes-Austin in your issue of August 22nd is an example of the difficulties which the Conservative Party have to meet...

meets with criticism of the American position on the Debts problem. Why is America so un- relenting ? Has America become impervious to broad- minded appeals ? The answer is :...

AMERICA AND THE FRENCH DEBT [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—There is a different understanding in the United States of the nature of the British War debt to America from...

Sm,—" How could the Prime Minister have prepared for the Mining Crisis ? " asks Mr. Saunderson. First, by using his common sense. Secondly, by reflecting on the course of trade...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have read a great many articles in daily and weekly papers in which the merits and demerits are discussed of the subsidy to the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Just now many persons are asking, " What is the Big Brother Movement in Australia ? " This is the answer. It is a scheme—officially...

SIR,—It is not generally remembered, though you have referred to the fact more than once in the Spectator, that Bishop King of Lincoln could not bring himself to believe that...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR ,—I should much like to be allowed to support the lettef from " Layman" appearing in your issue of August 22nd, as I know a very hard case...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—From time to time, as a regular reader of the Spectator, I have noticed suggestions that War. Loan Stock, which it is said was subscribed...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR] Sin,—May I add our experience to " A.'s " ? We live in Berk. shire, and own unenclosed land on the opposite side of the narrow road which runs...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In spite of many dismal forebodings the Ocean Race was sailed to a successful finish ; how successful is proved by the fact that those who...

of the statement of your corm- . spondent, " A." Several years ago an elderly gentleman took a party of 'friends to see some excavations on a Roman site in private property....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In view of your more than interesting article on " The Urgent Problem of China," I take the liberty of suggesting the advisability of your...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—In your article on the Crisis in the Church, July 4th, there are certain statements which seem to call for some explanation :- 1. You refer...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —" A Draughtsman's " suggestion in your issue of August 8th, that the distribution of all available work among all available workers,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—" The Lament of an Unemployed Man " is full of interest to me. I have been out of work since the Food Control was dissolved at Christmas...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The thirtieth birthday of the invention of " wireless,", which I see the British radio industry are celebrating at the Royal Albert Hall...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Though no smith myself, I think I may say that if your correspondent, Mr. R. W. Baker, next time he is at a black- smith's, would himself...

Sin,—The action of the blacksmith's hammer may be com- pared to that of a pendulum. There is a waste of energy if the hammer is brought to a permanent standstill at the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, —I enclose a paragraph which appeared in the Daily Mail of April 20th. In cases of this kind, unless a heavier fine than seven and...

AN AMERICAN ON BRITISH HOLIDAY RESORTS :—Mr. Lyman D. Davis, Chairman Foreign Relations Committee, Anglo. American Hotel Association (N.Y.C.), writes :—So many attacks have...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Having just read Jane Austen's lately-published Sanditon may I be allowed to correct a mistake on p. 81, where " chamber-house " has been...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] do not think there is much doubt that the grey squirrel has by this time acquired a foothold in a very much larger area than is generally...

Ax American reader of the Spectator, Mr. Gabriel Wells, has generously offered a prize of £100 for an essay on "Unemployment : Its Cause and Remedy." The maximum length of an...

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THE tables are again crowded : it seems that the autumn publishing season has begun in earnest. Perhaps the most impOrtant book this week is Mr. Middleton Murry's Keats and...

H. Beable has compiled an anthology of some beauty, much quaintness, ' and quite a little plain speaking. Our times have progressed beyond the gay lack of conSideratiOn for...

newer ground. Henrys Francis Cary was an amiable man, the intimate of Lamb - and Coleridge"; he joined - in that stir- prising congregation of wit and genius which revolved...

British' Association are published in a pamphlet, The Advance- ment of Science, by the Association itself, at Burlington HouSe, London; W. I. - -

MEMOIRS and reminiscences pour from the Press and are usually disappointing. But the two volumes just produced by the late Clerk to the Privy Council stand in a class apart....

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The Galton Institute of Mind Training. (Galton Institute, 90 Great Russell St., London, W.C. 12 lessons. £5 :v.) THE Middle Ages called it " accidie " : Coleridge called it "...

The New Baltic States. By Owen Rutter. (Methuen. 15s.) Ma. Owrzf MaryEa has a capital subject in the new Baltic States, and as all first-hand information about these struggling...

Loan Screw chose happily when he called his well-contrived play—which is built upon the Shakespearean model—a history, for it is the dramatization of an episode rather than the...

THE September number of the Nineteenth Cenfurg.opens with an article on " Government Publications." " The Stationery Office " publishes at vast expense an immense amount of...

SOUND sense and personal prejudice are strangely mixed in Mr. de Burgh's racy little book about Ireland, its history, its politics, its finance and its agricultural policy. The...

and Irene Law. (Heath and Cranton. 12s. 6c1.) IT is a thankless and absurd task to defend a family against itself, yet we think that all readers of this book about the...

DEGREES OF TRUTH Daimon. By E. L. Grant Watson. (Cape. 7s. 6d. net.) Ix Mr. A. S. M. Hutchinson's new novel one of the characters, a famous but retiring novelist called B. C....

WITH LAWRENCE IN ARABIA. By Lowell Thomas. (Hutchinson and Co. 21s.) THE record of a great and perilous feat successfully accom- plished is always inspiring, and Colonel...

Long Barrows, Stone Circles and other Megalithic Remains in the area covered by Sheet 8 of the Quarter-inch Ordnance Survey comprising the Cotswolds and -the Welsh Marches. By...

FRENCH DEBT PROPOSALS BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. THE American reception of the British Government's offer to France with regard to the Debt settlement is exactly of the character...

Queen of Roumania obviously obtains relief from the conventional royal duties which she performs so admirably by writing romances which, while vague as to date and place, give...

This Mad Ideal. By Floyd Dell. (John Lane. 7s. 6d. net.) The heroine of this American story declines to marry either of her lovers in order that they and she may develop their...

Some weeks ago when the speculative movement in Rubber shares reached its climax it was clear that there must be a considerable pause in activity. Such has, of course, proved to...

While it would doubtless be easy to attach undue importance to the bellicose utterances of Mr. Cook and his revolutionary forecasts, it would, perhaps, equally be unwise to...

Moreover, the Foreign Market has also received a fillip from two different quarters. As a consequence of the material improvement during the last few weeks in the Brazilian...

CHEERFUL MARKETS. Readers of these notes will not have been surprised that the month of August dosed without any reduction in the Bank Rate. From the time of the reduction a...