collieries have offered to the miners new terms which include an eight-hour day and a small increase of pay over the old rates. The numbers of the men in the different districts...

gave the first public recognition that we -have seen to .the party in France who have advocated letting the franc go the way of the mark in order to wipe out debt, extinguish...

designed to create an inviolable sinking fund to be administered by an autonomous ad hoc body of twenty members, including the Governor of the Banque de France, who will control...

T HE cumbrous machinery of the Miners' Federation is in motion. On Friday, July 30th, the expected delegates'. conference was held. The result was that the proposals carried,...

the Finance Committee of the French Chamber and passed by it with little amendment shows that M. Poincare is not wandering far afield from the recommendations of the Committee...

London, W.O. 2.—A Subsciiption to the SPECTATOR costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The SPECTATOR is registered as a Newspaper. The...

Housing (Rural Workers) Bill which is designed to authorize 'between this --year and 1931 grants and loans from County and County' Borough Councils of sums above E50 . that are...

Affairs. Mr. Thomas urged among other things that oppositions as well as governments should be represented at the Imperial Conference in order to ensure continuity of policy, an...

cottages thus helped, in order to ensure that it will be agricultural labourers who get the benefit. That is well 'meant, but, much as we dislike the usurpation by "week-enders...

the .representation of oppositions at the conference he said that the scheme was not liked in the Dominions. Much attention was given by Mr. Amery and others to emigration,...

Opposition parties as though they wished to help in the improvement of rural housing. The earlier Housing Acts have certainly produced houses in urban and suburban areas, though...

country with which we have been on friendly 'terms for sixty years and which from the days of Dr. Johnson has always made a romantic appeal as a 'remote' and isolated people...

the Upper Houk last week. He forcibly disclaimed any fantastic idea of military action in China, which must work out its own salvation amid its great difficulties. He referred...

second reading in the Upper House. Lord Cecil was in charge, and the motion to reject the Bill received only seventeen votes. Lord Gainford was the principal opponent, objecting...

Italian Government that they would' act together without any rivalry in two schemes—the one, the British dam of Lake Tsana and, the other, an Italian railway between Eritrea and...

when " all administration of the sacraments . . . ceased over the length and breadth of the country : the church bells were silent, the dead lay unburied on the ground." What...

whose careers illustrate the comprehensiveness of the British Empire. Mr. Zangwill was as English as any Jew could be while keeping his pride of race. As a man of letters he...

and other, in China. The joint attack by the troops of Chang Tso-lin and Wu Pei-fu upon the Kuominchun army has not been a success since that army seems to have reached an...

the law and treatment of lunacy issued its report last week. It makes a great advance along the line of the theories that lunacy is generally a curable illness and not to be...

Prime Minister, by representatives of Oxford and Eton, and by others for support in raising a memorial to Lord Curzon. As they say, it is due from the gratitude of his...

which periodically burst upon the 14-itudes where lie our West Indian Colonies. Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, has been terribly damaged and lives were lost. At present...

celebrating the seventh centenary of St. Francis of Assisi, Mexico is plunged into the agony of a violent religious struggle. It is with great regret and considerable curiosity...

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101* ; on Wednesday week 101* ; a year ago 100*. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday bat ; on Wednesday...

CHINA N EARLY twelve months have passed since we bade God-speed to the British delegates to the Chinese Tariff Conference. It has been for them a dreary year of disappointment,...

T HE following theory as to the authorship of the Fourth Gospel, or, at any rate, of much of its con- cluding and very distinctive portion, is put forth under all reserves. Its...

BY NEW MEMBER. T HE debate on Dominion and Colonial Affairs revealed a disturbing apathy on the part of Unionist back-benchers in regard to this all-important topic. At no time...

tAXFORD has become a main point of interest in town. \- 7 . planning. Naturally any proposals likely to dis: figure or impiove the University City arouse widespread interest....

BY ONE WHO DOES IT. F OR men who are prepared to give up a certain amount of time to social service among a specially unfor- tunate class there exists an outlet that is both...

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M OST card players will agree that Royal Auction Bridge is the best card game, devised by, the art of man. It is very new. The Portland Club, polishing the American model of Mr....

BY A " DRAPER'S LABOURER." [In response to requests we have decided to publish a few of the articles, describing a characteristic day's work or experience,which were sent in...

SIR JAGADIS BOSE has just returned from a visit to Geneva which was a triumph for his discoveries. The greatest botanists, physicists and physiologists of Europe acclaimed the...

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CROOKS AND COCKNEYS r ASK BECCIZS." BY CYRIL CAMPION AND EDWARD DIGNON, GLOBE THEATRE.] DISTINGUISHED VILLA." By KATE O'BRIEN. Liz-rim THEATRE.] THE crook play is perhaps the...

A LETTER FROM PEKING [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In Chinese party politics—which means the struggle between various military cliques for the central government,...

ON WRITING FOR FILMS EVERYONE wishes that eminent or promising writers, drama- tists, and indeed all those whose business it is to conceive and convey good stories, could make...

COAL IN DEMAND AND OUT OF IT [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your suggestive article "Coal in Demand and Out of It," you recently drew attention to the necessity of...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the " Week in Parliament " of your issue of July 24th, your correspondent adversely criticizes the Government, saying, " It is heartily...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Permit me to amend the remarks of Mr. Ratcliffe in your columns concerning Senator Borah's political influence, and particularly his...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Please allow me to thank Mr. Millen Adam for the sympathy and generosity of his criticism in your issue of July 17th. I wish I could say...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I think we get a clue to the real answer when we re- collect that the whole tendency of the last half-century's industrial development...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In the paragraph in the Spectator of July 31st, stating that " roundabout traffic as now practised in Trafalgar Square and elsewhere was...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Harnett Appeal was heard in the Law Courts on Wednesday, July 21st. In April last Mr. Harnett sued Dr. Fisher who had certified him...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—If it is true that the conditions under which the rough work aboard our merchant ships is carried out are made so unattractive that only...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—This is the year of St. Francis and it seems unfortunate that just in this year should have died at Milan a man who was famous as the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Lord Birkenhead has taken a decidedly unusual course in announcing that he is prepared to defend Lord Lytton should the attack upon him...

SPECTATOR.] 31R4—Your review of Mr. F. A. Hornibrook's sensible little book says " Age is a disease which cannot be cured." As an " old " man of sixty, I wish to contradict that...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The " Universities' Library for Central Europe " was established towards the end of 1920 in order to co-ordinate and consolidate the securing by gifts,...

THE DOOM OF THE CITY PIGEON (" It might be sufficient to declare them ferae natume for A apace and leave the rest to the natural hunting instinct of thu Cockney...

appeals for help for the British Legion. He is making a special effort at this twelfth, anniversary of the Declaration of War. " This Fund is bringing renewed hope and comfort...

IT is with some pride in our own behalf and gratitude on behalf of the Children and the Committee of the Country Holiday Fund that we acknowledge below donations which have...

THE CHRISTIAN ETHIC AND ECONOMICS... , [COPYRIGHT IN THE UNPFED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE 11/4 7 e10 York Times.] SIR JOSIAH STAMP'S book is one of the wisest and most carefully...

England, but there is no doubt that Mr. Stanley Hall was a re- markable man and an original thinker. Miss Lorine Pruette has written a very interesting account of his life and...

IT was surely a good thing to bring together the record of all those activities, so widely scattered yet so unified in purpose. which together make up the wonderful story of...

by Mr. E.P.Stebbing, late of the I.F.S., brings the story of forest conseiVaney and the development of the research in India up to 11/25. The volume is well illustrated and...

the . superiority of Reykjavik in the summer over Covent Garden.' We would like to see the residence of Snorri Sturluson, Iceland's foremost son, where "there are two...

Dn. NicnoIA9 Munnitv Bum.En's address to the American Society in London, on Independence Day, has been reprinted in New York. Dr. Butler says the usual things with eloquence and...

illustrations executed by boys between the ages of twelve and seventeen at the Bembridge School. Mr. J. Brandon Jones' designs show a very remarkable power, and he would no...

tells us. When they receive a cigarette box with the finger of a woman in it they, hardly turn a hair. Such an incident is alt in the day's work. But when, on one occasion, they...

a new and interesting hobby, and also an inexpensive one, for there are few Mass Clocks in England, and those that there are cannot be collected, but only studied on the spot....

average man and woman of to-day, in spite of the remarkable extent to which we rely on this mysterious force for our news, lighting and locomotion. The Electrical Publicity...

LrrEnArunn.-.21filion's Poems. - Two Volumes. (Nonesuch. £2 7s. 6d.) Six Volumes of the Loeb Classical Library, Jo§ephus, Plato, Demosthenes, Plutarch, Pausanias, Epietetus....

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Life, Mind, and Spirit. Gifford Lectures, 1923. By C. Lloyd Morgan, D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., Professor Emeritus in the University of Bristol. (Williams and Norgate. 15s. net:) '...

biography and a Personal confession."' Publishers should be careful of their wrappers and of the things-they say on them. Why should one's expectations be tuned so high ?...

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Can We Then Believe? By Charles Gore, D.D. (John Murray. dz.) FULLY to understand the purpose and scope. of. this volume, in which Dr. Gore makes summary. restatements of...

Confessio Juvenis : Collected Poems. By Richard Hughes. (Matto and Wincing. 6s.) Ala. ADrOcies muse, if it cannot boast great originality, has those qualities of spontaneity,...

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THE August Nineteenth Century opens appropriately with an article on " Playing Fields," by Sir H. Perry Robinson. The physical unfitness of our urban populations is, he argues,...

Britain's Economic Plight. By Frank Plachy, (Berm. 7s. 6d.) THERE is a certain attitude of mind, unworthy of this country, that resents informed criticism from foreign sources,...

THE SHADOW OF MOUNT CARMEL. By W. Force Stead. (R. Cobden Sanderson. 8s. 6d. net.) MR. FORCE STEAD, in his account of his pilgrimage in search of truth, records with...

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is a sign of the extraordinary and widespread dramatic activity which ha's quietly but suddenly sprung up amongst us during the last half dozen years, and it is a portent that...

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a poignant and thoughtful tale for the more serious reader. It gives in deftly oblique manner, through the lips of an onlooker, the life story of a human failure. Claude Fisher,...

centres is an important and complicated study. Dr. Barcroft is one of the great living authorities on the subject, and the conclusions he has reached, not in the study or...

(Cape. 7s. 6d. net.)—Tales of ancient days, unleis they be tales of adventure purely, often read -tediously or are too obviously erudite. Mr. Couperus in The Comedians has...

BEAU SABREUR. By P. C. Wren. (John Murray. 7s. 6d. net.)—As with Mr. John Buchan so with Mr. P. C. Wren : it is obvious that their specialist knowledge is power for creat- ing...

of this book, Jenny Brookfield, is assuredly an immediate descendant of Mr. Wells' " Ann Veronica." She is certainly not one of those incredibly deliber- ate `,! modem " girls...

Prairie (Walter J. Muilenburg, John Lane, 7s. Od.) is a work of serious intention about land problems of the Middle West. * * * The scene of The Keeper of the Bees (Gene...

THE COOLING- SYSTEM sm. a new non-conducting material for the cylinders of a tor-car is introduced, some system of cooling must be opted. Heat implies energy, and an engine...

The Royal Automobile Club is issuing to all purchasers of new cars and motor-cycles a map showing the main roads in England and Wales and Southern Scotland marked with the...

OUR INDUSTRIAL PROBLEMS By ARTHUR W. KIDDY. AMONG the many evil legacies bequeathed to us b y the War it is probable that none was more evil or more productive of disastrous...

At the time of the appearance of the Scheme for reorganiz , ing the capital of the Underground Railways of London, I emphasized in these columns its many advantages, including...

Among the good features of the past week has been the quite remarkable recovery in the franc. Some two or three weeks ago, and before the formation of the present ministry in...

In the course of his remarks, Lord Ashfield made some interesting comments upon the recent strike and the subsequent coal stoppage. After explaining that the operating companies...

At the recent Annual Meeting of Tanganyika Concessions, Limited, the Chairman; General Sir Reginald Wingate, had a very satisfactory position to lay before the shareholders....

• HOLIDAY MARKETS. WE are now entering upon what is= usually reckoned to be the most st agnan t month on the Stock Exchange. Not infre- quentl y, August has belied its...

In these days of enforced house purchases, increasing interest is undoubtedly taken by the public in the various schemes put forward by the Building Societies and by Insurance...