the owners could have provided a brief and much more explicit announcement for the guidance of the miners. - Even if such a statement had been a trifle less agreeable than the...

we write on Thursday, awaiting reports from the various districts. The Federation in its reply to the owners' statement has, however, hinted—though perhaps a stronger word might...

I N less than three weeks the coal subsidy, which alone makes it possible for coal mining as a whole to be carried on, will come to an end. The only scheme in the field for...

jection in fact than in name. The proposal refers only to the minimum percentage and nOt to the subsistence wage nor to the actual wage to be paid under normal conditions. In...

digesting the Commission's Report did the right thing. he Prime Minister announced that if the owners and the miners would be voluntary co-operators the Govern- ment for their...

W.C. 2.—A Subscription to the "Spectator" costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. Registered as a Newspaper. The Postage on this issue i8$...

30 per cent. was also passed by both Houses. They adjourned on Easter Day to their own and everyone else's satisfaction. The numerous foreign residents in France will notice...

suggested recently that France was much more ready than Spain to come to terms with Abd-el- Krim, and the latest news tends to confirm the suggestion. However, the two countries...

The discomfort and anxiety of living in Peking are the only certainties of life there. Everyone is suffering under the military adventures and the diplomatists can only register...

inveterate " Prime Minister, of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes while other European Governments rose and fell, has resigned. Oppositions have found him invincible...

of Signor Mussolini by Miss Violet Albina Gibson—a sister of Lord Ashbourne—who fired at him with a pistol when he was leaving the International Congress of Surgery in Rome....

'most attention to the principle of a National Agreement, which they fear may be whittled away. It should not be forgotten, therefore, that the Report approved, of the •...

after invitations to disaster down to• the last minute. M. Peret's continued and urgent appeals for support and for haste had some effect and M. Herriot last week advised the...

Governor-Generalship of India and - Lord Irwin has taken it up. We confess that we doubted the wisdom of Lord Reading's appoint inent, but he steadily dissipated those doubts,...

of the two Houses of Parlia- ment a dignified protest against the Measure for the Disposal of City Churches. The Committee has agreed by a:majority to report favourably on the...

Easter weather than that of this year. General- izations are notoriously deceptive, but the present writer has an impression that though the roads were more crowded than ever,...

wits that is going on between the Minister of Transport and the independent omnibus owners who refuse to with- draw their 'buses from certain routes now forbidden to them. In...

upset expectations by not referring very pointedly to two-seaters. He has simply authorized alternative scales of charges for the hire of taxis ; one scale is the existing one,...

course, any More than to the experimental reforms which he has so loyally carried out and supported wherever possible. But it is safe to say that a less brilliant and laborious...

not improve. Here we speak not in a doubtful generalization, but on positive information. The litter left behind by the holiday makers was worse than ever. Photographs of...

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 102; on Monday week 101 11 ; a year ago 102k. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 864; on Monday week 864;...

EVOLUTION AND REVOLUTION lk - xT HEN the Labour Government took office in 1924 V V. it seemed that the evolutionary group among the Socialists had got the upper hand, and would...

THE way in which the public regards the work of - 1 - the Industrial Christian Fellowship is one of the most puzzling things of our day. That work seems to be ignored by most of...

By AN IRISH CORRESPONDENT. T HE split in the Sinn Fein organization, followed by the resignation of Mr. de Valera, is the most striking re-orientation in the Irish Free State...

T HOSE who have travelled at Easter-tithe by car througli the " Dukeries "in Nottinghamshire must be impressed by the number of new villages for colliers now being built. The...

T HAT very clever lady, Miss Rose Macaulay, some short time ago delighted an audience mostly of her own sex with an address on "Women as News." The object of her satire was the...

B UNDLES of little triangular red labels have been dealt out to every Post Office. They are the trade mark of a venture new to Britain, though not to Europe and Greater Britain....

P OISED on a tip of Australia, Fremantle is a busy port. But the two-funnelled tug, engaged in towing to sea the small cargo-steamer on whose after-deck a pack of foxhounds...

the United States has been making speeches in the Middle West. - During a visit to Chicago he gave a pleasing picture of improved conditions in Ireland and incidentally paid a...

THOSE who have given thought to the subject agree that the British Empire's method of handling external affairs leaves much to be desired. Hence all the recent talk concerning...

policy has fallen flat. The subject is much too com- plicated for a mere townsman to set forth his views, but it is obvious that one of the most serious problems to-day is how...

REVOLVER SHOTS [" KATERINA," BY ANDREYEV. BARNES THEATRE.] As SOOD as the curtain goes up on the first act, we hear voices; a man's, a woman's raised in a quarrel "off."...

European interests that our attention was entirely focussed on the political deadlock. From the standpoint of wireless, however, last month's meeting at Geneva marked a fresh...

trans- actions of transatlantic bucket-shop swindlers. When I read of people who have invested their life savings in some get-rich-quick syndicate I cannot help reflecting on...

an im- portant corner lot in that town of — and share in its prosperity. A few months later I happened to be in Canada in the neighbourhood of the township in question. The blue...

AUTTJMN FIRE," BY T. C. MURRAY.. " Q " THEATRE.] MANY years ago I remember a performance in the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, of Mr. Murray's first play, Maurice Harte (a noble play...

A LETTER FROM INDIA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Si,—In the middle of this week I was discussing with an Indian friend—a business man and publicist, and one who has held...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—At page 365 of the Spectator for February 27th, 1926, Under the title "Letters to the Editor—English and American Law," appears the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—The destruction by fire of the Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon, and the narrow escape of the Library and Museum, directs...

THE " LIBERTIES " OF THE AIR . . [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sur,--I have great sympathy with " Pater's " question, for no one ants . a , blind-alley occupation for his...

recently acquired sufficient literary taste to become a reader of the Spectator, and was much interested in the article concerning "Tips." As a member of one of the callings...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—If your correspondent who disputes the statements in my article o " Tips " will refer to the Report of the Desborough Committee he will...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have considerable sympathy with what Mr. Pape and " Jex " have written to you about their daughters attending " County " schools....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR ,—It seems likely that a recent legal decision will revive the project for assessing Income Tax upon the basis of the previous year's...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR;—We Cambridge sausages are quite accustomed to being cooked in Oxford frying-pans ; as we eat pretty crisp and satisfactory we don't much...

• feel impelled to send you my thanks for this romantic - and truthful tale of the miner. May I supplement the para- graph which refers to him as "one of the most loyal, warm-...

Sin,—Your plain speaking in last week's issue of the Spectator on the subject of French policy and our craven subservience to it has been inspiring reading. Why has this not...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I trust that my interest as an American in England's welfare will be accepted as an excuse for commenting upon one of the expedients often brought forward as a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut, — In the interesting article on London Starlings the writer gives a date (1890) for the appearance of the gulls on the Thames. I find the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Sixty years ago "variegated grass" was popularly known by the honest name of" Gardeners' Garters." I pro- test against Mr. Dearmer's...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In its issue of March 13th, the Times Educational Supplement begins its first leading article entitled "Young Workers' Hours," thus :—"...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the review of Courts and Camps in India your reviewer falls into two errors. Miss FitzRoy alludes to the Pearl Mosque at Delhi and rightly attributes it to...

TO A TAXPAYER • (After Robert Burns.) Knee breekit, gowfin' earl, sae clever, Wi' income earned by stout endeavour, An' last year's car whilk threatens ever To gang agley. Dell...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—I am writing this in the hope that you will at some time or other find space for some information on the " sales " side of American...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Some of your readers are interested in bird life, and may like to know that during the past week we have had a hawfuich and a great...

PHILOSOPHERS IN SHIRTSLEEVES [COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York Times.] "Diogenes Laertius" Lives of Eminent Philosophers. With an English Translation...

PSYCHOLOGY is, or should be, the corner-stone of the natural sciences and the' foundation of the spiritual sciences : the region it deals with is exactly in the juncture of body...

6d.) gives the words and music of those remarkable • expressions. of the genius of the American negro that combine the throb of African rhythms and the cry of a people once...

Paw bishops have hunted ostriches, but Synesius did. He was passionately fond of sport, a philosopher, and writer with what is called nowadays a human touch (of the bedside...

of Avignon, with its Popes 'and Anti-Popes, the Courts of Love of the' troubadours; - Queen Jeanne, King Rene, and a hundred other delightful_ scenes and characters: •. This is...

to be guided by M. Georges Carpentier, who has written an • excellent book on The Art of Boxing (Harrap. 3s. 6d.). There is a good picture of the " fistic Apollo" delivering...

Stead; but he shares with the latter the distinction of being a noted journalist, " a superman of the street." Messrs.- Geoffrey Bles have just published Joseph Pulitzer, • by...

The Walking Slick Method of Self-Defence, written by an officer of the Indian' Police (Athletic Publication. 3s.). Among various weighty testimonials to this method of self-...

and beautifully-illustrated book on Westminster Abbey and its Ancient Art (Burrow. 215.). The shrines of the Abbey tell the story of the faith of our fathers ; this volume,...

The Editor offers a prize of SZ for a "Specimen Day" in not more than 1,000 words. If only four hundred words are used we shall be so much the happier. But we have _set the...

By D. D. Cottington Taylor. (Good House Keeping. 28. 6c1.) • • "Way should not a cookery book be interesting?" asks Mrs. Allhusen inter introduction to Scents and Dishes. She...

(Allen and Unwin 62.) Tins is an essentially practical book: Mr. Russell has written rather as the absorbed and intelligent father than as a well- known British philosopher. His...

Broken Lights. By Harold Begbie. (Mills and Boon. 5s.) The Art of Preaching. By Harold Ford, M.A., LL.D., D.C.L. (Herbert Jenkins. 2s. 6d.) To be able to understand the...

Postal Subscribers changing their address, or who while travelling desire their copies of the paper to be sent to a temporary address, arc asked to notify the SPECTATOR Office...

the George Eumorfopoulos Collection of Chinese, Corean and Persian Pottery and Porce!ain. By R. L. Hobson. (Volume II. Ernest Benn. £12 12s.) THE appearance of the successive...

THE first article in the Nineteenth Centurm is signed by two Frenchmen—M. Andre and M. Adrien Paulian. "Is France making for a dictatorship ? " they ask. A responsible portion...

Tim March number of English Life (1s.) has a most interesting list of contributors. Mr. George Lambton writes an article on the "Stamina and Breeding" of thoroughbreds, Lord...

THUNDER ON THE LEFT SURELY it is true that the Anglo-Saxon races have invented a relationship between themselves and their children which is unique. It is they who have...

BUDGET PROSPECTS BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY THE National Accounts for the Fiscal Year which ter- minated on March 31st closed with an actual deficit of 114,088,120, and the position...

MiscEmausous :-Science and Poetry. By -I. A. Richards. (Kegati Paul. 2s. 6d.)---Paths to Word 'Peace. By - Bolton C. Waller. (Allen and Unwin. - 5s.)-A Naturalist's Pilgrimage....

PANAMA GOLD DISCOVERIES. It is early times to attempt to discuss the merits of the reported gold discoveries in Panama. Indeed, at the moment the ordinary public is a little...