the Peking Foreign Office on Friday, September 4th. They insist on the Chinese Government realizing its responsibility for the protection of foreign rights as safeguarded by the...

opened by M. Painleve on Monday. He did not disguise the hankering of France after the Protocol, but spoke encouragingly of the Pact and incidentally of the entry of Germany...

of the Mosul area and went further, saying that the frontier which the Commission had so lukewarmly suggested as a pis alter was, in fact, an impossible one from all points of...

T HE Council of the League of Nations by Thursday, September 3rd, had disposed of formal business and was ready for its most important work—the dis- cussion of its...

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has been a coal miner, a trade union official, and an Under-Secretary in the Coalition Government. We cannot believe that the miners of the country will not be satisfied that he...

Commissions can bring back lost markets or create new ones. It is also certain that the public will not in present conditions put fresh capital into coal mines. But we do urge...

their enquiry. Nothing is worse for any industry than prolonged uncertainty as to its future. The Coal Industry is confronted by nine months at any rate of uncertainty, during...

were published last week. Sir Herbert Samuel has agreed to act as Chairman. The considerable position that he had made for himself at home by his ability and hard work before be...

to return as our chief delegate to the Conference. As financial adviser he will have Col. Sydney Peel, who after distinguishing himself as a scholar at Eton and Oxford made his...

the Trades Union Congress at Scarborough was opened on Monday with a presidential address empha- sizing the false and barren doctrine of inevitable conflict between employers...

between the Parliamentary Labour Party and the Trade Union General Council was illustrated in the opening debate on the Council's proposal to build new head- quarters and to...

complicated by the dispute over the rights and the desires of the three nations in regard to wireless telegraphy. The Japanese station of Messrs. Mitsui at Peking, the Chinese...

dockyards of Rosyth and Pembroke. With greatly reduced staffs they will be maintained in a dormant state from which they could be readily awakened to full activity in time of...

friend during the War to whom France and her Allies owed much. Born in Algeria, he came to France and was soon recognized as a brilliant lawyer and journalist. He began his...

in a bombardment of the coast round Alhucemas, and Spanish troops after one repulse made a landing there on Tuesday. Abd-el-Krim seems to strike blows which must be very...

comparatively feeble in its effects in this country. South- ampton was the worst spot in Great Britain. The Channel services thence were interrupted one night and there were...

of lives and of the airship ' Shenandoah,' which occurred in a violent storm last week. The huge ship, designed and built in the United States closely upon the lines of the...

life and sports of the vast Argentine plains, crossed the Andes by train and reached Santiago, the capital of Chile, on Sunday night. The " English of the South," as the...

Edinburgh, from the Faculty of Advocates to the nation, by virtue of a recent Act, deserves to be noted. It is curious that Scotland, with its traditional zeal for learning,...

on August 6th, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Thursday 101 4 ; on Thursday week 101i ; a year ago 1011. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Thursday 881 ; on Thursday week...

THE BOUNDARY PROBLEM I F we are to believe the rumours in the newspapers, the Boundary Commission will before long make the decision which it is alleged will, in obedience to...

:TIM sessions of the Council and Assembly of the League of Nations are daily thrusting upon even -1- the least impressionable minds some of the differences .between the world of...

BY ARTHUR. GREENWOOD, M.P. I.—AN ANALYSIS OF THE UNEMPLOYED. The remarkable fact is that, notwithstanding the enormous wastage of the War, the unsettlement in Europe, the...

FROM A SOUTH AFRICAN CORRESPONDENT. D URING the past few years events have conspired to bring the problem of colour in South Africa into the foreground. No longer does it lurk...

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[This article is by a Scottish engineer who lives in one of the Southern States of U.S.A. In a recent article in the Spectator a correspondent stated definitely that Prohibition...

[The writer, who is a School medical officer in New Zealand, informs us that an Open-Air Schools League has been established in that country.—ED. Spectator.] gc slow growth of...

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I WAS playing lately on a course which is destined, - 1 - when it grows a little older, to be one of the very best in Scotland. This is the new course at Turnberry, in Ayrshire....

There is, as everyone knows, a good deal of camping out in this country, but as yet it is practised upon a much smaller scale. A fortnight is the usual time spent in camp, and...

W E publish elsewhere a very interesting letter of thanks from Professor Scott to the readers of the Spectator who have helped him in his Homecrofting experiment. We are in the...

A FEW SPECIAL CASES Two plays illustrating special " cases " begin the autumn theatrical season in London. Both of them—Mr. Mordaunt Shairp's The Offence, at Wyndham's Theatre,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I know not by what fantastic slip of the pencil I conveyed that I was in favour of retaining the censorship of the Lord Chamberlain. I do...

MINERS' OUTPUT [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sus,—One of your correspondents, A. S. B., says that whilst coal output per man has fallen off, as compared with pre-War days,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—However fortune may be going to requite you further for your generous decision to lend your pages for all these weeks to assist my humble...

to this question, it is amusing to observe that while the Church presses the Bible into the hand of every child who can read, it would deny to the child's parents the trivial...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In reply t9 " Managing Director," I mean " distillation " and not " carbonisation." I should have appreciated his criticisms more if he...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, —I am glad that your correspondent, " E. J. C.," takes exception to the view that War Loan Stock was subscribed Mr in paper and,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—In the constant cry which we now hear for the abolition of extraterritoriality in China, is it realized, in Great Britain, to what level...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. E. J. Fox, in his article on Co-partnership, misses an important point, which emphasizes the advantage of the present system when this...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —In the Spectator for August 8th I have observed a letter by J. T. Rhys, Esq., on American prohibition. I assume that his information...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—Your correspondent, " Layman," deserves the sympathy of all men of good will. Does Christianity really run " contrary, to Nature and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I do not often see the Spectator, but it so happens that this week a copy of the issue of August 22nd has come into my hands, wherein I...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspondent's suggestion of farm work for town boys and girls sounds attractive, but my experience this summer shows it quite...

so far afield as Berkshire or to a Roman site as instanced by your two correspondents in last week's Spectator to view misplaced litter. An inspection, when the water is clear,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—In the Spectator of August 22nd your reviewer laments that the author of An Entertainment for Lady-Dayes should have fallen into the error...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your interesting article on the above subject you seem to imply that science has thrown no light on religion— that though the...

said : " Manners form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned." Manners are the " happy ways of doing things " in life, and the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sza,—For many years before the present agitation against the ever-increasing litter in our streets and public spaces I have been endeavouring...

[To the Editor of the SrEcrivroit.] Mr. Barker had been able to hold converse with the blacksmith he would have been told that the repeated strokes on the anvil are to enable...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—I would ask you to be so very good as to insert this letter for a troubled author who wants to know if any of your readers will tell him...

Tun primrose on the river's brim Was one and six a line to him. And though he grumbled, begged and swore, (believe me I) it was nothing more. HIT3IBOAT WoLre,

SPECTATOR.] . Sin,—The letter in your issue of August 8th is so entirely at variance with my own experience of fifty years in slaughter- houses (during nearly thirty of which I...

THE BRITISH JOURNALIST You cannot hope to bribe or twist (Thank God !) the British journalist. But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The Committee of tbe Birmingham Settlement believe that there may be some among your readers who will be inte- rested in the openings for...

[To the _Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Some weeks ago I conceived the idea of organizing an informal correspondence club among readers of the American Nation, to enable...

AN American reader of the Spectator, Mr. Gabriel Wells, • has generously offered a prize of £100 for an essay on "Unemployment : Its Cause and Remedy." The maximum length of an...

GAELIC POETRY UNDER THE PENAL LAWS Lxcxv said that to write the history of Catholic Ireland under the Penal Laws a man must draw upon the annals of France, Austria and Spain ;...

is Mr. H. Avray. Tipping's, English Gardens (Country Life). There are fifty-two gardens illustrated and described, some of them modern, some of them perpetuating the styles and...

the German of Prof. Adolf Weissmann. It gives a most thorough survey of the tendencies of modern music, and a criticism of the works of individual composers. Prof. Weiss- mann's...

IN More Changes, More Chances (Nisbet) Mr. II. W. Nevinson continues his reminiscences. He paints himself (paradoxical as ever) as a quiet, peaceable man, shrinking with horror...

his optimism ; he writes of The Conquest of Disease (Bodley Head) with such pride and joy in man's achievements that we might easily- forget how -much misery remains untouched....

his task of trans- lating Proust's A La Recherche du Temps Perdu. The two . volumes Le Cote de Guermantes are now published as The Guermantes Way (Chatto and Windus).

THE EDITOR OFFERS TWO PRIZES OF £10 EACH, THE FIRST FOR AN INSCRIPTION FOR A SUNDIAL IN PROSE OR VERSE, THE SECOND FOR AN EPIGRAM ON WOMAN iN FOUR LINES OF VERSE. RULES FOR...

Almost every page of Count Keyserling's diary has.some- thing valuable in it, and the significance of the book lies rather in this than in any new and startling doctrine that...

DR. IRVING BROWN writes of Leconte de Lisle as if he were revealing an extraordinary discovery, with an unbounded, uncritical enthusiasm which is almost disarming in its...

LADY TROLTDRIDGE recollects a great deal that is very enter- taining. Her " reflections " on present day matters also make pleasant reading, calculated to excite counter...

The Tenure of Agricultural Land. By C. S. Orwin, M.A. and W. F. Peel, M.A., D.S.O. (Cambridge University Press. 2s. 6d.) THE Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, setting an...

The League of Nations : A. Survey (January, 1920-June, 1925) (Geneva : Information Section, League of Nations Secretariat. 20 cents. London: Constable. Is.) This short survey of...

The Foreign Policy of Canning. By Harold Temperley. (Bell. 25s. net.) ADMIRERS of Canning will be grateful to Mr. Temperley for this excellent study. It is based on the...

OUR readers will remember how vice at Singapore was lately the cause of some courageous letters which we felt bound to publish on public grounds in spite of the repulsive nature...

lee. net.) This invaluable _ year-book, which is edited at , Chatham House, the headquarters of the. British Institiite of Inter- national Affairs, is now in its sixth year and...

WORLD WAR. By Hubert Hall. (Oxford University Press. 16s. net.) Tins book is an extremely useful addition to the series published on behalf of the Carnegie Endowment for Inter-...

F. Morris, B.C.L. (Oxford University Press. 5s.) Ma. Moms is well qualified to write the life of Benjamin Fawcett, whose illustrations to British Birds and many other books...

OLD AND NEW WORLDS Tim experience of the young farmer-hero of Backfurrow is in a sense the experience of all America. Thrown into the world, without responsibilities or...

6d. net.)—Mr. Edgar Wallace is perhaps rather more terrifying than usual in The Gaunt Stranger. The book is also even easier reading than some of his recent pro- ductions,...

LIFE INSURANCE—BONUS PROSPECTS DURING the War and in the years immediately succeeding it there was considerable controversy concerning the re- spective merits of non-profit and...

The Ultimate Island. By L. de Giberne Sieveking., (Routledge. 7s. 6d.' net.)—The author has tried to put too much into this short book. Either the theme of the last island of...

NOBEL INDUSTRIES. Tire annual report of Nobel Industries, one of the largest of the industrial post-war combines, and possessing most varied interests, provides an excellent...

Glancing at the entire results of our foreign trade for the first half of the present year, it is satisfactory to note that commerce within the Empire has been well maintained,...