the Miners' Federation refused point-blank to negotiate with the coalowners upon the terms proposed by them for a new wages agreement. It is now suggested that Mr. Eridgeman,...

W E have refrained from discussing the Coal crisis in our leading columns but not because we fail kto realise the gravity of the situation and the greatness _of the issues at...

He is one of the small body of public men who understand the present industrial situation. He knows that the existing evils are a direct product of a bad policy—are, in fact,...

would be a mistake to think that the crisis there was over.. The' Hong-Kong strike continues and even extends, and the anti-foreign feeling is still as strong as ever . in all...

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the largest, Russia), giving them a mild reminder in the form of a request to name a date for negotiations about settlement. In regard to the French debt of over £600,000,000,...

it is desirable that We should understand the basis on which the foreigners are established as residents. We there- fore publish to-day an article on Extraterritoriality by the...

no doubt adhere to the lines of policy laid down by Lord Balfour and endorsed by Mr. Churchill. We shall only ask to be assured that arrangements will be made that we should...

important agreements for co-operation in Morocco. There seems no doubt that France has suffered a severe set-back there. It is not so much that Abdel Krim has had any...

appointment of General Naulin to the supreme command in Morocco. General Naulin is a compara- tively young man, who made a good impression on the British troops in Upper Silesia...

itself without increasing its dignity or efficiency in debate. The Pensions Bill was again taken in Committee on Thursday, July 2nd, when Mr. Neville , Chamberlain made some...

been considered in secret by the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Reichstag, and Herr Stresemann's answer is said to be ready. The Deutsche Volkspartei, of which the Foreign...

House of Lords on Monday in a way that showed that the Government and the Opposition are united in hoping for its success and in desiring to see Arbitration recognized as the...

speech which we have all awaited since Lord Reading came home. Many will be greatly relieved by its tone. :Lord Birkenhead spoke generously of Mr. Montagu !but half-heartedly of...

a fine position at the southern end of Kingsway, has now been completed at its northern face by a large group of statuary high up above the verbal reminder of the Friendship of...

Irish Club in London organized a dinner of Irishmen from Ulster and the Free State. Unhappily Sir James Craig could not fulfil his intention to be present owing to his brother's...

by 987 votes to 441 cast for Lord Oxford. The number of voters was small, for there are 7,601 on the roll, and smaller than those who voted when Lord Curzon was elected. From...

subject of the hardships of the Irish ;loyalists. Lord Selborne introduced the subject, con- :fining himself to sufferings and losses incurred after the truce of July, 1921....

sail on Saturday, the 11th, for Australia. Every Briton who makes that journey to or fro can be in some degree an ambassador of the Empire, but there is vastly more power and...

the Board of Trade reviewed the case of British trade. It was a gloomy tale, though the conclusion was not that we are bankrupt or necessarily about to face ruin. But whereas in...

on March 5th, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on 4hursday 100 ; on Thursday week 99i ; a year ago 1011}. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Thursday 87i ; on Thursday week 86i ;...

HOMECROFTING " Homeopefting is the art of making your own food with your own hands, so that you do not need to buy it. The suggestion is, take advantage of the short industrial...

I GATHER that in this article what is expected of me is that I should interpret, as well as I can in a very brief compass, the principles of the Anglo-Catholic: movement and...

are now making from ourselves and certain other nations is the cancelling of all " unequal treaties." The " inequality " referred to is the legal status that is granted to...

BY NEW MEMBER. TR. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN'S handling of 1 T-L the Pensions Bill in Committee last week elicited the warm admiration of members on all sides of the House. Night...

By ELLERY SEDGWICK, EDITOR OF THE Atlantic Monthly. T H E Spectator is good enough to ask me for a brief summary of impressions gained during a recent visit to England. Since...

BY HERTHA DAVIES. I T is said that if we, as a nation, are to maintain our numbers, every married couple must give four children to the world. Try counting heads in homes in...

rill-1E roar of the tra ffi c became gradually less and less, r -I-- splutteringly intermittent, for there is, it seems, (something about the gradient of the Bayswater Road...

I T is delightfully appropriate that Winchester should have bought Broad-Halfpenny ; and it is historically charming that the event should be celebrated by playing a match...

AMERICAN PRESTIGE AND BRITISH FILMS Tim reputation and civic importance of the cinema are just now being discussed in every kind of building where news- papers are opened. It...

HOMECROFTING—AN APPEAL [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] - SIR,—I think it was last October that the Spectator raised the question whether a trial Homecroft could not be...

advised to place an order for the SPECTATOR. The journal will be forwarded to any addrets at the following rates :— One Month. • • • .. 2s. 6d. Two Months .. .. 5s....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,–You may, I think, like to have a few lines from one of his very oldest and most intimate and closely allied friends about Dr. Alfred...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am very much interested in what Professor Scott has taught us to call " Homecrofting." I am afraid it is true that without some sort...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The author of the article in the Spectator on " London Squares in Summer Time" has written without thinking how very many families have...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Lord Dunmore is, of course, well aware that the Oxford Bill, after a three-days' debate, was decisively rejected by the House of Lords...

my fifth visit to the Carlisle area, and having again explored the conditions there and observed the gradual but sure development of the system of State management of the liquor...

SIR,—May I draw the attention of your readers to the above Bill which is now under consideration in Committee ? The advantages claimed for the Bill are that it simplifies the...

the SPECTATOR.] have experienced the delights of those " machine. made " hotels in America, which Mr. Norman Angell describes so affectionately in your issue of June 20th. They...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] 'SIR,—The remarkable service which was held on Monday, 'June 29th, in Westminster Abbey possesses a significance ;greater even than appears...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your review of the late Lord Curzon's last book doubt appears to be cast upon his statement that in 1910 Lord Kitchener failed to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Permit me to thank you for the remarkable article in the Spectator of July 4th with which you revi:.-,v Mrs. Alfred Lyttelton's book....

C UPI D EXPLAINS MY son ! cried Venus once to Cupid, Come hither, child, and tell me, pray— I know you're anything but stupid— What method guides you in your play ? What...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I call your readers' attention to a play by Mr. Lytton Strachey which is to be performed on July 12th ? The Dowager Empress of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—There would appear to be grave cause for anxiety concerning the welfare of our sick mercantile marine officers and men, when they are...

" It chanced (eternal God that chance did guide) " is from the Faery Queen I. xi. 45, 6.—I am, Sir, &e., Falmouth. W. LUARD.

SUMMER TRAVEL AND SPORT SUPPLEMENT. No. 5063.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1995. [GRATIS.

"Ignotis errare locis, ignota videre Flumina gaudebat, studio minuente laborem."—(Ovid.) I nAvE been invited to set down some suggestions where to go for the summer holidays....

A MODERN motor-car certainly does make it seem rather small.' You can drive from one end of England and Scotland to the other in two summer days. And, though personally I think...

THE cost of motoring is very largely in the hands of the car-owner. There are serviceable 15 to 20 horse-power cars on the road to-day which can easily be run for 2d. a mile or...

CANADA is very lovely to see, but even if we had no eye for scenery it would be an extraordinarily attractive country. , For the sportsman there is an abundance of game in the...

IT is almost ended, the long rush of the London season. With its dust and heat and hurry ; its late nights and its innumerable conversations. And as in other years there rises...

BY M. J. LANDA. THERE is so much to do, so much to see, in Switzerland summertime that it is immaterial whether you scamper round, or stay in one place and laze. Any guide-book...

. companionable and " all . weathers " hobby. This summer- wireless will o hold its own in popular favour as a result of programme adaptation and the introduction of novelties...

44 What is it steels the sportsman's heart ? It is his conscious pride of art." AND shooting is an art with many fine points when practised by the higher artists. The Happy...

Aar ardent countryman, of whom it was said that he only used his house as a hat-stand, desired to live in a caravan that he might ensure himself a south aspect. Caravanners will...

BY STEPHEN GWYNN. PEOPLE often want to know what are the possibilities of a fishing holiday in Ireland, and so I set about to describe one that has been typical. What we found...

INCREASED attention has been directed this summer to the management of the roadside hotel upon which the holiday- maker in Great Britain, more especially if he travel by motor-...

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POPE [COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York Times.] Pope. The Leslie Stephen Lecture for 1925, by Lytton Strachey. (Cambridge University Press. 2s. net.) A...

Good Housekeeping Cookery Book. By Florence B. Jack. (Good Housekeeping Magazine. 2s. 6d. net.) Cakes and Ale and The Flowing Bowl. By Edward Spencer. (Stanley Paul and Co. 2s....

David , Master's book New Cancer Facts (Bodley Head). In it he gives an account of Dr. Louis Sambon's careful investigations and his startling conclusions. Dr. Sambon believes...

(Philip Allan) is a very well written and very amusing collection of essays. The most notable of them is an article on " Legal Errors in Fiction." It is Anthony Trollope who...

International, takes the report of the British Trades Union delegation to Russia, and points out very acutely the inconsistencies and blindnesses and partialities of which it is...

CAPTAIN B. H. LIDDELL HART in Paris; or, The Future of War (Kegan Paul) gives a more inclusive survey of possible weapons of warfare than Mr. Haldane in his Callinicus. He...

its edition of Ben Jonson, to be completed in ten volumes. The editors are Professor C. H. Herford and Mr. Percy Simpson, and they seem from these two volumes, The Man and His...

Lange's The History of Materialism, an immense and valuable work now published as one volume. * * * *

THE EDITOR OFFERS A PRIZE OF £5 FOR AN OUTLINE OF HISTORY IN NOT MORE THAN 100 WORDS OF PROSE. BREVITY i s dangerous : it may be that the Spartans never understood one...

The Council of Nicaea : A Memorial for its Sixteenth Cen- tenary. By A. E. Burn. (S.P.C.K. 35. 6d. net.) SIXTEEN hundred years ago the Emperor Constantine, anxious to secure...

LuctAN was a man of common sense, not to be taken in by appearances. He knew that mankind was vile, and that if you follow a seeming-virtuous man to his house you will find him...

No wonder the schoolboy yawns. Mathematics, we are informed by Mr. Sullivan, " appears as a strangely isolated activity. Manners and customs, religions and philosophies, are not...

MODERN LO V E Noah's Ark. By A. Williams-Ellis. (Cape. 7s. O.) LOVE is so terribly important that more nonsense is talked about it than about Truth or Beauty, or any other of...

OUR age is singularly prolific of political speculation. Gone are the years when a book with this title would have been able to confine itself to two antagonistic systems at...

rts. 6d. net.)—These are fantastic and ingenious tales in which Mr. Chesterton gives his readers the added pleasure of a guessing competition. Each story is centred round a...

THE FINANCIAL OUTLOOK BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. BEFORE dealing with the two main factors which are exerting a somewhat depressing effect upon markets, and are obscuring the general...

London as a thesis for the degree of D.D. It strikes out a new line by being a pioneer attempt to deal with the pheno- mena of Conversion from the comparative as well as the...

of this novel which is not mystical deserves to be called a very competent comedy of manners. But the obsessing. ancestress is really too difficult to believe in. The mystically...

'RESPONSIBILITY AND CULTURE. By L. P. Jacks. (Humphrey Milford, Yale University Press. 7s. net.) IN these, the Yale Lectures on the Responsibility of Citizen- ship, Professor...

The Ex-Gentleman. By Thirza Nash. (Jerrold. 7s. 6d. net.)—This South African novel will give English readers considerable insight into the ways of those strange nomadic...

INVESTMENT STOCKS STEADIER. JUDGING from present indications, it looks as though we should now have a pause in capital flotations so far as big Colonial Loan Issues or Trades...

The Chairman of the Australian Estates and Mortgage Company—Mr. Andrew Williamson—has performed a real service by his observations at the recent annual meeting of that...

Then, as is usually the case, a number of adverse influences caused the pendulum to swing somewhat violently in the other direction. Trade depression, difficulty in obtaining...

Not the least interesting development of the past week has been the publication of figures showing a further general decline in wholessie prices of commodities. The Economist...