6 FEBRUARY 1926

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Mr. Clynes, who took Mr. MacDonald's place as leader of

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the Opposition, said rather oddly that the Government really promised nothing and that the Speech did not even contemplate the fulfilment of promises previously made. He, of...

Referring to estimates the Speech said that proposals for reducing

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public expenditure would be introduced " without delay." There would also be a loan for the . development - of 'the East - African-Dependencies. After a passage on the Coal...

Mr. Lloyd George thoroughly approved of the Govern- inent's policy

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in regard to Iraq—a fact which we are glad to .record as in the past few months many Liberals have . quite deserted the Glailstonian tradition of gympathizing with and helping...

Let • us interpolate here a noticeable fact which has

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been brought out in the past few days. The export figures of the coal industry have been rising rather rapidly all over the country but particularly in South Wales. Thus,...

NEWS 9F .THE WEEK r King's Speech the opening of

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Parliament . in7m Tuesday - was as -" gentle as zephyrs . blowing below the violet," and the temper of the House of Com- mons itself was responsively gentle too. But nobody...

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At the request of France, Italy, Japan, Uruguay and Czecho-slovakia

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the Preparatory Commission on Dis- armament which ought to have met on February 15th has been postponed. Recently French newspapers have been arguing that Great Britain does not...

On Thursday, January 28th, the King of Italy signed the

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most FaAcist law ". - which deals, in a, single clause with Italians living abroad who venture seriously to criticize the Italian Government. The law imposes loss of citizenship...

Mr. Baldwin, answering Mr. Lloyd George, denied that America would

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ever have agreed to the cancellation of debt. In any case we did the right thing in paying promptly. Dealing with the Italian debt he produced with unusual effect a declaration...

Great Britain cannot insist too strongly during the next few

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weeks on her sincerity in this matter of disarma- ment. In our opinion it would be a useful collateral policy if she pressed upon France the extreme desirability of reducing the...

The Tangier correspondent of the Times said in last Saturday's

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paper that some correspondence of Captain Gordon Canning, who has been acting as Abd-el-Krim's peace agent, had been disclosed. The letters show that half of Captain Canning's...

Herr Luther's new minority Government in Germany was saved by

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only ten votes on Thursday, January 28th, on a vote of confidence. The Times correspondent says that before the voting there were many rumours about what would happen if the...

At a meeting of the Liberal Parliamentary Party on Monday

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Mr. Lloyd George was elected chairman for the coming session by seventeen votes to seven. Of the forty-two members of the party thirty. attended the meeting. Six of those -...

, General Hertzog's policy of segregation for the natives in

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South Africa is still being discussed doubtfully. It is the first scheme of the kind presented for political discussion, though General Hertzog is careful to say that he has...

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- Walter Bagehot, author of Lombard Street, The English Constitution

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and other famous political and economic works, was born a hundred years ago on Wednesday. It was said of him that to talk with him was like riding a- horse with a perfect mouth....

The Morning Post of Tuesday stated that the Co- operative

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Wholesale Society denies Mr. A. J. Cook's announcement that arrangements had been made • for the Co-operative Societies to supply food to the Trade Unions in the event of a...

Over and over again attempts were made to float boats

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to leeward in order to bring off the Antinoe's ' crew. In these attempts Captain Fried lost two of his crew and six boats. But in the end all the company of the Antinoi3" were...

• There has been terrific weather in the Atlantic. The

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gales are said to have- been the worst for forty years ; the loss of shipping and • life has been great and the suffering prolonged. But seldom has the brotherhood of the sea...

Of all the policies of segregation which we have examined

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this seems to us to be the most enlightened, though we are, of course, well aware that any segregation is condemned by many progressive thinkers. General Ilertzog's policy in...

The results of the Scottish by-elections are very satis- factory

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to the Government. In 'East Renfrew, Mr. A. M. MacR.obert, the Unionst, had a majority of 928 over the Labour candidate. At the general election in 1924 his majority on a larger...

Mr. Churchill's reply to the deputation which he re- ceived

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last week on the subject of the Road Fund was excellent in sense and form. He admitted that the provision for the roads must be large and must grow greater, but he could not...

Bank Rate, 5 per cent, changed from 4 per cent.

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on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent;) was on Wednesday 101 l o s ; on Wednesday week 1001; a year ago 1013.. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 88/ ; on...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY

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THE KING'S SPEECH 1 F a nation without a history is happy, a Parliament which has no desperate remedies offered to it in a King's Speech is presumably also happy. The King's...

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WHY NOT A COOLIDGE DOCTRINE A MERICA as a nation moves

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slowly. To prove this one has only to watch her super-cautious progress in the matter of peace and international co- operation. But, though the pace is slow, it is sure. the...

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T HE January Bulletin of the Rylands Library contains a full

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and final account of the British contribution towards the reconstruction of the Library of the Univer- sity of Louvain. Attention has been called from time to time in the...

CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

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I.—THE CANADIAN VIEW BY AN AMERICAN. I T may shock some on both sides of the ocean whd have been fattening on the soft diet of international, apple-sauce to know that...

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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF NEURASTHENIA

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THE study of the brain gained many triumphs in the nineteenth century. Our own country notably con- tributed, through such - men as the late Sir Victor Horsley, and Sir David...

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X _CHINESE STATESMAN ..ON CHINA

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T HE oldest and leading British newspaper in China, the North. China Daily News, on the fortieth, anniversary of the Republic, October 10th, 1925, con- tained a striking article...

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WHAT'S WANTED

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S IR WILLIAM BULL, who writes a preface to a pamphlet entitled What's Wanted and Advice to Inventors, quotes himself as saying of the Inventor, " I may be accused of being a bit...

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SPECIMEN DAYS

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P . a title which we have borrowed from Walt Whitman to stand at the head of these articles well enough expresses their purpose. They are simple accounts of the daily life of...

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Miss Elizabeth Baker, the well-known playwright, give* us here a

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record of an attempted escape from the dreariness and rigours of England to the enchantment of the South Seas. The reader will learn from this entertaining narrative why, after...

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THE THEATRE

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PRODUCERS IN PARIS THE PLAYS OF HENRI LENORMAND IT is reported that Mr. Charles Cochran intends to bring one of the latest Parisian stars to London—a vedette in the person of...

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CORRESPONDENCE

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A LETTER FROM INDIA [To the Editor of the SPEcrATon.] Stit,—A little over a year ago there was one of those deplorable fracas between Hindus and MOslerns during the great...

THE CINEMA

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NO MORE CLASSICS WHEN the clever German film director Ernst Lubitsch went to America, wiseacres prophesied his downfall. But he con- founded them with the brilliant comedy of...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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MR. BALDWIN'S ELECTRIC SCHEME [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] is a difficult matter to understand how it is that poli- ticians of all shades of opinion are obsessed with the...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Sin,—Your articles on this matter and the correspondence that is accompanying them are revealing the existence of some regrettable moral and intellectual confusions. Clear...

A TAX ON BETTING

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[Te the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—You will not, I think, expect or desire me to prolong the controversy upon the taxation of betting. But when Mr. Perkins states that some...

ECONOMY IN THE CIVIL SERVICE

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With the cry of economy in the air, I am inclined to wonder why the Government do not have recourse to the simple expedient of abrogating...

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PROTECTION AND INTERNATIONAL • RELATIONS

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[To the Editor of the SPEcrAToa] Sni,—Most Englishmen, of all parties, must be deeply grateful to the Conservative Government fOr their straing and successful attitude of...

AN ALTERNATIVE TO LAND NATIONALIZATION

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[To the Editor of the SrEcrAxon.] Snz,—I quite understand, that Mr. Christopher Tumor does not advocate the turning of all labourers into smallholders—our limited area of...

C. M. DOUGHTY

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Apropos of your article on Doughty's Arabia Deserts, in the Spectator of January 30th, 1926, I think it may interest your readers to...

BRITISH LOSSES IN THE WAR

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[To the Editor of the SrEcrramit.] Sm,—I was glad to see that Sir Rennell Rodd, and Lori Fortescue pointed out that "An Italian " in his letter had much underestimated our...

[To the Editor of the SPEcra'roa.] Sra—Your article on the

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late Mr. Doughty quotes a few lines from Arabia Deserts in which the author of that book reports that the modern Arabs say of the Christians that " the lights quenched in their...

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THE GREEK PLAY SOCIETY

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut,—In view of the widespread interest taken in the Greek Play Society's recent production of the Oedipus Tyrannus, the Committee are...

THE - HUMANE SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS [To the Editor of the

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SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It may interest you to know that 1 sent the articleg in the Spectator, on the use of the humane killer in slaughtering animals for food, to my butcher; Mr....

WALKING IN CIRCLES

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] - SIR,—From personal experience and inquiry in the Australian bush I have proved to my satisfaction that a man when he is " bushed " invariably...

THE AMERICAN VICE-PRESIDENT

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut,—In your review of Mr. Horwill's Usages of the American Constitution in the Spectator of January 2nd, it is stated that the "...

LITERATURE BY THE TON

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Srn,—Five tons of magazinei and illustrated papers are needed . at once for distribution among the men of the Royal Mercantile Marine. Reading...

IS PROHIBITION A FAILURE ?

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] But, —In your issue of October 10th Mr. Charles H. Craik said : " The World League Against Alcoholism has published statistics of 300 cities in...

THE CORRESPONDENCE OF BURKE

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] crave the hospitality of your columns to state that I am engaged on a complete edition of the correspondence of Edmund Burke, which will appear...

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A STOAT AND WEASEL FIGHT

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- [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Six,—I send you the following account of a fight I recently witnessed, between a stoat and a weasel, which I think may interest your...

EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS

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A SUGGESTION FOR BANKERS. "Lanenstriallt", writes : " Taking - the old ecclesiastical term 4 tithe," one wirld;like As)Fete the creative suggestion that our great British banks...

POETRY

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ROBIN ONE chill October morning When day broke white and wan, X heard a robin chitter. The cheery little man I "Cheep ! Cheep ! What shall I do with it ? Cheep ! Cheep !...

PARIS -AN- UNRECORDED REVOLUTION IN MANNERS

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[To the Editor of the SrEcremon.] Sm,—I was much interested in Mr. Angell's article on the . Paris music halls. I, too, have recently been in Paris after a long interval, and I...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Sin,—I am surprised that Mr. Norman Angell was not aware that the kind of spectacle, which he regrets, was allowed in Paris. If he visited certain English cinemas he would_see...

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BOOK OF THE MOMENT

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THE NAPOLEONIC LEGEND [COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OP AMERICA BY TBE New York Times.] " I know nothing which can so severely try the heart and spirit of man, and especially...

- THE NEW COMPETITION , The Editor offers a prize of £5

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for a report in not more than five, hundred words upon nine entries for a previous competition. Full particulars were given in the SPECTATOR of January 30th ; they will be...

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Captain Charles Johnson's General History of the Robberies and MUrders

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of the Most Notorious Pyrates ." is being published by the Cayme Press, Stanhope Mews West, in two volumes at 30s. each. The first volume is out, and a remarkably good...

The profession of being a " human fly," Mr. William

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Larkin tells us, is both exciting and profitable. In Steeplejacks and Steeplejacking (Jonathan Cape, Os.), he describes a fight with a madman in mid air, how he climbed over the...

Why did the Bishop of London write a preface to

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Medi- tations on Various Aspects of the Spiritual Life ? (Macmillan, 2s. 6d.). As the book is sealed with his " crested and pre- vailing " name, one expects from the author, an...

Atomicity and Quanta (Cambridge University Press, 2s. 6d.), by Professor

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Jeaas, should be mentioned as being a pronounce- ment by one of the most eminent of mathematicians. It is not for the vulgar, however, but for those who can solve wave-...

Mr. Milford publishes the first modern translation of Mon- taigne's

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essays by Mr. George B. Ives—the last was by Charles Cotton 275 years ago—in an excellently printed edition (Oxford University Press, £5 5s. Od.) with introduction by Miss Grace...

That well-known traveller, Grace Thompson Seton, has written a book

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on India which she calls Yes, Lady Saheb (Hodder and Stoughton, . 16s.). The text is better than the title and the illustrations are excellent. Where she deals with Pets, men...

A Dictionary of European Literature, by Mr. Laurie Magnus (Routledge,

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25s.), holds "treasuries of vision" in the world of books. The short introduction sketching the scope of the work and suggesting, briefly but pointedly, a clue to the future of...

As we go to press comes a sumptuous volume on

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Leicester- shire and Its Hunts : the Quorn, the Cottesmore and the Belvoir, by Mr. Charles Simpson, R.I., with twenty-eight illustrations in colour by the author and numerous...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS

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Docrons often write charmingly ; Sir Frederick Treves, for instance, in one essay (" The Garden of the Unforgotten ") has brought to us within the limit of a few pages the...

The price of The Correspondence of Samuel Pepys (G. Bell

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and Sons, Ltd.) is 36s. and not 26s. as stated in last week's issue.

Mr. Ralph Nevill's new book, Night Life in London and

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Paris, Past and Present (Cassell, 16s.), is a lightly written and entertaining chronicle of amusement places and their patrons— chiefly of the past. But the writer knows of what...

SOLD OUT.

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Many persons have reported during the past few weeks that they have been unable to buy a copy of the SPECTATOR at the bookstalls or newsagents owing to the stock being sold out....

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ANCIENT EGYPT

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Egyptian Religions and Ethics. By F. W. Read. (Watts. 4s. 6d. net.) Anthology of Ancient Egyptian Poems... By C. Elissa She/piny. (John Murray. 3s. 6d. net.) Egyptian Papyri...

THE NEW RUSSIA

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DR. H. GUEST • has compiled a valuable work on the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. He has wisely refrained from adding one more to the lengthening list of personal opinions...

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ENGLISH POEMS

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English Poems. By Edmund Blunden. (Cobden-Sanderson.. 6s. net.) WHEN we close this book after reading it from cover to cover, we are glad for more than our own sake ; we are...

THE PROBLEM OF SPIRITUAL HEALING WE have to thank the

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Bishop of Durham for an admirably lucid and forcible summing-up of the issues of faith-healing and psycho-therapy. The Bishop knows where he stands, and his standpoint is...

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FROM '59 TO '22.

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IN his day Lord Grenfell played many parts. He was an artist of talent and had a very genuine interest in archaeology. He was once nearly becoming famous as an excavator in...

BARRETT WENDELL

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Barrett Wendell and his Letters. By M. A. DeWolfe Howe. (Oxford University Press. 18s.) A LITERARY man of the type of Barrett Wendell seems all his life long multiplying matter...

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THE MYSTICS OF THE CHURCH

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The Mystics of the Church. By Evelyn Underhill. (James Clarke and Co. 6s. net.) MISS EVELYN UNDERHILL has had a long and intimate know- ledge of many mystics in many ages. No...

SAM NOBLE, A.B. An Autobiography. (Sampson Low. 7s. 6d.)

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SAM` NOBLE, A.B:, has given us a perfectly simple, straight. forward story of his life as an able seaman during the early 'eighties in the Royal Navy. This record of a four-year...

STRANGE ADVENTURES OF THE SEA. By J. G. Lockett. (Philip

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Allan and Co. 8s. 6d.) STRANGE ADVENTURES OF THE SEA. By J. G. Lockett. (Philip Allan and Co. 8s. 6d.) THESE are twelve tales of adventure, ranging from Elizabethan times when...

SHIPS OF THE SEVEN SEAS. By Hawthorn Daniel. (Heinemann. 156.)

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SHIPS OF THE SEVEN SEAS. By Hawthorn Daniel. (Heinemann. 156.) This is an exhaustive treatise on an enormous subject, with which the author has a good acquaintance. The book...

FIVE YARNS OF THE SEA

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THE ROMANCE OF NAVIGATION. By Capt. W. B. Whall. (Sampson Low. 16s.) CAPTAIN W. B. WHALL is a man who knew his job and loved it all his days, and the fruit of his love is...

FAIR WINDS AND FOUL. By Frederick Parry. (Martin Hopkinson and

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Co. 10s. 6d.) HERE are hell's hatches let loose, with knives and belaying pins and fists and boots freely used as weapons of offence: This is the yarn of a youngster who went...

THE QUARTERLIES IN the new Edinburgh Review Sir Valentin* Chirol

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writes a grave, we might say a threatening, article on " The World Problem of Colour." He reminds us that there are twice as many coloured people in the world as there are white...

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ELIZABETHAN LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRY. By

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. M.- St. Clare Byrne, (Methuen.. 78. Miss BYRNE is a well-known authority on certain aspects of Elizabethan literature, and from her intimate knowledge of the period has ....

Place, W. 8. 7s. 6d. nat..) _

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FEW more delightful-presents could be found - than this Ilasle- wood edition of Pope's Rape of the Lock, printed by the Chiswick Press in the eighteenth-century manner, with...

CURRENT LITERATURE

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I's is strange that while the passion for collecting old English furniture has produced in the last two decades a prodigious literature, from tie late Mr. Macquoid's monumental...

" THE BEST WAY " COOKERY GIFT BOOK. (Offices of

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- " The Best Way " Series, Fleetway House, Farringdon Street. 4s. 6d.) Tars is a most excellent receipt book giving exact directions for the preparation of innumerable dishes,...

THE RISE OF MODERN INDUSTRY. By J. L. Hammond and

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Barbara Hammond. (Methuen. 10s. 6d. net.) Mx. AND MRS. HAMMOND have written an interesting and thoughtful book on the Industrial Revolution. They sketch lightly the development...

THE STORY OF THE WOMEN'S INSTITUTE MOVEMENT IN ENGLAND AND

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WALES AND SCOTLAND. By J. M. Robertson Scott. (The Village Press, Idbury. 6s. 6d.) Tan Women's Institute Movement has found an efficient and sympathetic chronicler in Mi....

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THE MUSIC OF INDIA. By Atiya Begum Fyzee-Rahaman. (London :

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Luzac and Co. 12s. 6d.) AMONG the points introduced in Atiya Begum's book one had not yet been touched upon by any other author writing in English on Indian music : the...

FICTION

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FANTASY AND PROPAGANDA Tuouou Lolly Willows may not be a book to entrance quite everyone, since the adventures of a spinster lady in search of happiness may not be sufficiently...

FAIRY STORIES

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Wonder Tales of Old Tyrol. By B. L. H. Henderson and C. Calvert. (Philip Allen. 6s.) Once on a Time was first published in 1917, but it attracted too little notice during the...

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FINANCE-PUBLIC AND PRIVATE

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BANKERS ON THE SITUATION-II. By ARTHUR W. KIDDY. WITH the exception of Lloyds Bank, all the meetings of the' leading banks have now been held, and by common consent the...

BOOKS RECOMMENDED

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HISTORY : - A General History of the Pirates. Vol. I. By Capt. Charles Johnson. (Cayme Press. 30s.). - The " Old Vic." By C. Hamilton and L. Baylis. (Cape. 12s. 6d.) Parnell,...

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- SATISFACTORY INSURANCE- EESIILTS.

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At the recent meeting of the National Mutual Life Society, the Chairman, Mr. J. Maynard Keynes, had a very excellent position to lay before the members of that Society. As was...

FINANCIAL NOTES THE RISE IN GILT-EDGED STOCKS.

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The strength in high-class investment stocks has been largely due to easier monetary conditions, following upon a steady. rise in the sterling exchange. During the past week the...