do things in its own way. The leaders feel bound to lead very slowly ; they have to imply that they have not taken leave of the old doctrines although they may actually be...

on : "What more worthy end is there than the peaceful development of our own British industry ? To that . masters and men can make equal contribution. Wild and menaring language...

leaders, having undertaken not long ago to fight the Trade Unions Bill line by line and word by word, should announce at the Congress that they had entirely dropped that •...

T HE Trades Union Congress, which opened at Edin- burgh on Monday, has shown a plain inclination towards direct negotiation between employers and em- ployed in an attempt to...

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the discussion of the proposal to refer back the report of the General Council refusing recognition to any body affiliated to that Movement. The result of the card vote was not...

into sudden importance. Holland appealed on Wednesday for a reconsideration of the condemned principles of the Geneva Protocol and was heartily backed up by the Scandinavian and...

Lord Cecil is regarded at Geneva as a much more significant event than it is taken to be here. •We ourselves look upon his' resignation as, on the whole, more likely to hinder...

difference between the Minority Movement and the Communists. You all get your orders from Moscow." The left wing vocally dissented from this, but a storm of cheers drowned the...

compelled sooner or later to break off diplomatic relations with the Soviet. The French Government noticed recently that Rakovsky, the Soviet Ambassador in Paris, had signed a...

Queensland last Saturday. About 11,000 men employed upon the State-owned railways were dismissed. by the Labour Government. The railwaymen had refused to handle goods despatched...

on the Council of the League is extremely interesting. It is, of course, the first time that a British Dominion has come forward for such a position. As full members of the...

the airmen. There is hardly a hope left for the safety of Colonel Minchin, Captain Leslie Hamilton, and Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim, who started to fly to America on Wednesday...

a mishap to Nottinghamshire which few would have thought possible till it happened. In their last match of the season Nottinghamshire had to meet Glamorgan, who had not won a...

all Mr, Cosgrave's actions have been tactically sound and even brilliant. Mr. De Valera, in an undesigned tribute to Mr. Cosgrave, complains that he had just booked a • passage...

New South Wales and so on into the other States. Mr. McCormack is a determined man, and his attempts, so far vain, to organize a skeleton railway service make very real the...

damaging to the Government to the extent to which they are believed, that Mr. Cosgrave is financed with English money. Archbishop Mannbc, of Melbourne, has said at a meeting of...

on April 21st, 1927, War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 102* ; on Wednesday week 10141; a year ago 101l. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 87i ; on Wednesday week...

T HE Trades Union Congress of this year may be a turning point in industrial history. We do not envy any man his responsibility, whether he be wage- earner or employer, who says...

A FALTERING attempt has been made by those who take a " sensational " rather than a scientific view of the British Association to re-stage the battle between Huxley and the...

• W HAT a relief it is to find one part of Europe where war has been outlawed, where independent nations can work out their individual destinies with the knowledge that they...

A N officer who has had a very distinguished career in one of the fighting Services has asked me to enlist the sympathy of readers of the Spectator for a project which he thinks...

[We need make no apology to our readers for deferring the publication of Mr. Eldon Moore's second article on An Unpopular' Aspect of National Health, in view of the importance...

spring and summer they sing all the time, save in the middle of the night and the middle of the day. In the little leafy woods that hang on the steep of the hill towards the...

NA T BEN we we left the mainland at Mallaig for the voyage across the Minch, the sea was like a sheet of mother-of-pearl, whose shining surface was broken only by the puffins,...

WHAT with oaths, knives, and guns there is certainly an atmosphere of bloodiness at the New Theatre. This "cave- man stuff" is a change from the nasty sophisticated plays that...

Now rooks fly home above our stuccoed street To elms the builders spared. Their black wings beat Untidily, above our tidy shares Of garden ground, above our trim grass squares....

opening of the Eighth Assembly of the League of Nations is an event to chronicle rather than describe. For the early days of one Assembly are, after all, very like the early...

WHEAT AND MILK. AN eminent farmer recently prophesied the coining of a: "world shortage" (the grammatically horrid phrase must be used) of wheat. - Mr. Carter has since then...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your "News of the Week," September 3rd, you say :—" It is plain that if the Naval Limitation Conference is to be reopened the advances...

GREAT BRITAIN IN THE AIR [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As I recently attended the International Aero- nautical Federation at Zurich in the British interest, some...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.) Sus,—Among the many interesting articles and letters about the housing question, I think no one has written in - the Spectator as to...

SIR,—As a Jersey man—born in '51—may I point out two errors in your "Some Jersey Churches" in the Spectator of August 27th? For years in the parish church of St. Helier— not St....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A signed article when full of inaccurate historical and local statements, injurious to a loyal people, if published in the Spectator,...

let me say at once that I am sorry for having wholly without intention hurt the feelings of any Jerseyman. But I was not writing a constitutional or ethnic treatise, but only...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of May 21st there appeared a contribution by " Crusader " under the above heading. The title was surely a misnomer, since...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sni,—You have appealed to Liberals and Socialists not to make partisan use of Lord Cecil's resignation. As one who has been impressed by your...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I wish to thank you for your leading article on Sacco and Vanzetti which appeared in the issue of August 13th. It is conspicuous for its...

leading article dealing with the Sacco and Vanzetti case in Massachusetts, in your number of August 13th, I am sending you an editorial which appeared in the New York Sun on...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Referring to the letters in your issues of June 4th and 18th on the subject of Railway Time-tables, I remember being struck with the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The following is an unofficial incident in Premier Bald. win's Canadian tour : Near a lonely country siding, thirty miles west of Calgary,...

the letter of your correspondent, Mr. E. T. Brown, -in which he states that the complaint On the part of railway companies that they are suffering from motor trans- port...

[To the Editor of the SrEemtroa.] SIR,—Four weeks after the death of his father—July, 1888— the German Kaiser caused an 'official report of the illness and death of his father,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—B, appears to have escaped the notice of your correspon. dent, Mr. H. G. Warren, that Lusius is not a misspelling of Lucius, but a...

Voliere Fantastique Sirens MAIDENS and seabirds, lovelier Than Aphrodite's self they were, Whose song lured even Orpheus. Only Ulysses on his mast, Hearing them, seemed to...

Sin, — Will you kindly permit me, through your columns; to thank the good _friend who has, for a long time, regularly sent me a copy of the Spectator ? Each week I derive great...

SPECTATOR.] Sift,—May I congratulate you on your decision to devote a page of the Spectator to League of Nations news, &c.,-weekly ? Such publicity must help -forward the work...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—AS an old polo player, I write to give you some news which I have just received from America, regarding the Army in India team,...

a superman, called The Story 'of 1 Great Experiment. If Messrs. Watts had published it in deiny qUarto, on vellum, at several guineas; with suitable pictUreS and Press...

• MR. GEOFFREY KEYNES and the Nonesuch Press are to be congratulated once more on their splendid Pencil Drawings of William Blake (35s.). Here is some of the best of Blake, and...

6d.) raises ghosts of Victorian controversies. Writing in 1899, he mentions that he himself has been taxed with writing a poem in the Spectator, signed S.B., of which he knows...

time of the Socialist regime, and saw the rise of Fascism and its necessity. She has written a big volume on her hero— Benito Mussolini—the Man (Hutchinson, 18s.), which is well...

ment of Ruskin's Modern Painters (Bell. 105.). Ruskin's prose, as he says, is so fearless and uncompromising, so clear, eloquent and delightful that even his errors are...

two shillings, Tales of Old Inns ; a little volume which, by reason of its charming illustrations by Mr. W. M. Keesey, it is pleasant to possess, in addition to its being an...

guinea offered weekly for the best thirteen general knowledge questions and answers to "M. B. S." for the following :- Questions on Robert Browning 1. Which is the longest and...

(Seeker, 18s.), in our issue of August 27th, we should have ascribed the translation to Mrs. Lowe-Porter (not Mr.),

"Blake has not been understood. He will continue not to be understood," is Mr. Jack Lindsay's pessimistic commen- tary on the probable _result of his own little book—William...

• whole world—will like to possess in one volume Parrot Pie (Harrap, OS.)—a collection of Mr. W. K. Seymour's pleasant parodies of some fifty writers of the day. With so rich a...

No understanding of this extraordinary book is possible unless we try to see it through Buddhist eyes. We must understand, to begin with, that the supreme heresy is to believe...

THE John Rylands Library Bulletin is always full of interest, primarily for scholars, as in the seventy pages of photographic facsimile of recently discovered Syriac MSS. of...

notify The SPECTATOR Office BEFORE MIDDAY ON MONDAY OF EACH WEEK. The previous address to which She paper has beet sent and receipt number should be quoted.

Allegra. By Armitstead C. Gordon. (Methuen. 10s. ed.) IN early childhood it was my fortune to pass enchanted periods in the wild and lovely countryside where George Gordon,...

THERE are few more dramatic pictures in history than that scene enacted in the castle of Roche d'Andeli towards the end of the year 1198. Hugh Bishop of Lincoln had grievously...

A Notable First Novel The Silent Queen. By W. Seymour Leslie. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) Mn. SEYMOUR LESLIE has attempted the most difficult of literary puzzles, namely, to find a formula...

Sin Jenne Maui:now contributes a very interesting paper to the Nineteenth Century on "The Imperial Parliament and the Empire." Lord Milner, as lately as the summer of 1916,...

MR. MarraAse has achieved another triumph. Nowadays, when good fiction is so plentiful, reviewers are tempted to use superlatives indiscrinainatively. But in all seriousness we...

70. ed . . net.)---George Birmingham is one of those fortunate writers who are always welcome, and welcome to all kinds of readers. Indeed, mere human gratitude for the...

The Decoy. By J. D. Beresford. (Collins. 7s. 6d.) The Bride's Prelude. By Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick. (Collins. 7s. 6d.) THESE two novels have some things in common. In each the...

ad.)--This novel has comparatively little incident, but is a moving . and (in spite of its somewhat theatrical setting) a convincing study of maternal love. Lydia Scarfs and...

THE RENT ACTS. By Dan Rider. (Methuen. 7s. 6d.)—The policy of rent restriction is, in principle, extremely dubious. When the State begins to interfere with contracts and to try...

Unwin. 7s. 6d.)—There is a creative energy of the strong ; there is a fatal fluency of the weak. Without applying the second statement to Mrs. L. Adams Beck, it may surely be...

By the Rev. Gerard W. IlaiiCki; (Published by the Author, Hartley Rectory, Longfield, Kent. 45. 6d.)—It would be a capital thing if every parish had its history written as in...

NEW YORK IS NOT AMERICA. By Ford Madox Ford. (Duckworth. 8s. 6d.)—Then what is New York if it is not America ? The most delightful place after Provence, according to Mr. Ford,...

and sentimental little book recalls the portrait of Queen Elizabeth which she insisted on having Painted without shadows. The three characters of the story are as virtuous and...

664—Mr. Smith, who has been a head-master of Secondary Schools and is now Professor of Education at Manchester University with the very modern letters " M.Ed." after his name,...

Chester R. Jones. (Cambridge University Press. as. 6d.)—The little Norman chapel described in this scholarly booklet stands lonely in a field beside the Newmarket road outside...

Lane. 52s. 6d.)—The authoress of this fascinating book supervises the art teaching in the San Francisco schools and has gained much help in her study of Oriental art from the...

tioned as the home of the Harcourts. We are informed that no member of that family has ever lived there. Wo should have written Malwood Walk.

The Wolseley 2-litre Six Six-cylinder cars of about 18 h.p. are becoming deservedly popular, and at a time when there are so many foreign cars of this type which offer so much...

1. The Ring and the Book.- . 2. My Star, One Word More, Ring and Book (Part I.). - 3, Veruce. - 4. Italy, By the Fireside. 5. Andrea del Satto.-6. Wordsworth.-7. (a) Saul, (b)...

TRAVEL AND SPORT :-Roosevelt's Hunting Adventures in the South. (Putnam. 10s.)-China and the Powers. By Norton. (Allen and Unwin. 15s.)--The Comedy of Poland. By D'Etchegoten....

And now we have the Labour Party apparently propos- ing as a plank in their electoral platform schemes, not of economy, but of a further proposed increa,se in direct taxation to...

Economy and Debt Conversions DURING the next two years something like £500 millions in British Debt in one form and another will mature, though as regards some of the bonds...

- During the past week financial circles have taken con- siderable interest in the combination among British steel companies, offering certain rebates to those undertaking to...

Those, how ever Who have given most attention to the -matter are firmly convinced that - We Shall haVe no real revival in our industry until we start with economy in. - the...

It is interesting to recall that in the years following the conclusion of the War there was no recovery in the National Credit or in British Government stocks until there was...

On the other hand, and bearing in mind that our annual debt servite still amounts to the colossal total of £370 millions, it is rather a gloomy prospect if so far as the present...

A moderate amount of this Debt will mature in the quite near future, and . we are, unfortunately, living in times when, owing to the general value of money and the level of...

ACTIVITY IN INDUSTRIALS. WHILE investment - sections of the markets continue with a -very firm tone and have not been affected by the Government .offer in connexion with the...

If only in view of the persistence with which I have advo- cated in these columns strenuous effort in industry in every- thing pertaining to financial and commercial .activities...

which has been responsible for some of the sensational advances in industrial securities in recent weeks, and prices in some directions have undoubtedly reached levels which can...

ENDOWMENT ASSURANCES IN considering the most suitable policies for different cir- cumstances, we have come to endowment assurances, which, besides serving many of the purposes...

Exchange necessitated the opening on Saturdays then in some way or other the need would, of course, have to be met, and in such an event, I think it should rest with the Stock...

The latest annual Report of the Crittall Manufacturing Company, Limited, is a decidedly good one, the profits of 1163,000 showing an increase of nearly 150,000. After paying the...

To revert to the pre-War custom of Saturday dealings in public securities it would probably be necessary for the banks to remain open until 1 p.m. instead of closing as they now...