none of the personal : heat :in the debate that had been expected, probably because everyone • was still under the profound sense of relief that a nine-months' breathing space...

A LTHOUGH the Session is over and the coal subven- tion is settled beyond the possibility of recall, the :future of the coal industry is still the preoccupation of all...

have acted as the Prime Minister did at the eleventh hour of the dispute. We do not in the least fail to recognize the sinister significance of the successful challenge to the...

of the trade unions, developed the uncon- - vincing argument that in such circumstances political and industrial action became almost indistinguishable. Mr. Lloyd George merely...

months for inquiry. " I would do it again," he exclaimed with a simplicity and sincerity of intonation that won the heart of the House more than it could have won by tactical...

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biit if all goes well the Germans should receive it in a few days. We hope it will not be found in the end that Mr. Austen Chamberlain has given too large a power of decision to...

new and unexpected trouble on their hands in the Jebel Druse revolt. Last week the Jebel Druse tribesmen of the Hauran in Syria surrounded Sueida and captured . part of the...

a welcome visitor to London. He came, of course, to discuss the Security Pact. On Tuesday he visited the Wmg, and had long conversations with Mr. Austen Chamberlain lati that...

one is particularly aware of the dangers of exaggeration. The Daily News correspondent adds, however, that the German Government is preparing a plan for subsidizing the process....

Syrian mandate, and it is greatly . to be hoped that the present one will be overcome nearly as quickly as the others. But it must be admitted that it is by far the most serious...

to what had already been published about the new German process for converting coal into oil. Professor Bergius, of Heidelberg, the inventor of the process, says that after...

Druses charge with having treated them not as members of an independent State but as colonial u_nderlings. When Captain Carbillet left the country recently on leave the Druses...

does come, Mr. Baldwin would or could be the leader of what we may call the national cause. Personally we think that he could be and ought to be. It has long been clear that he...

the dis- putants will have the good sense to avoid deciding such a question by a violent trial of strength. But if the struggle has to come Mr. Baldwin will be on infinitely...

Conimittee of the League of Nations, has been issued. The Committee find that, from the strictly legal point of view, the disputed territory must be regarded as an integral part...

was kept secret for some time, but it was issued last Sunday night by M. Painleve. It is plain that M. Petain takes a serious view of the task before his country. " The brutal...

to the French, it must not be supposed that the Jebel Druses are numerous enough or are sufficiently well armed to make a Iong resistance if France can spare troops to tackle...

on August 6th, 1925. 1Var Loan (5 per cent.) was on Thursday 101) ; on Thursday week 1001- ; a year ago 101). Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Thursday 89} ; on Thursday week...

Economic Conference to suggest means of developing trade within the Empire have presented a unanimous Report. The principal recommendation is that Imperial products should be...

General Sarrail to supply promptly any account of what was really happening in the Jebel Druse. The Druses, having all the arts of desert and mountain life, are very difficult...

was a debate on economy in which Mr. Churchill, who was rather too chastened for our liking, explained the difficulties of economy, though he did not excuse the present...

MR. BALDWIN AND THE MINERS M R. BALDWIN has not been fairly treated by his critics, whether Unionist, Liberal or Labour. They have taunted him with yielding to threats, with...

WT E have lately dealt with the French and the Spanish/ position in Morocco, but it is important to realize the British position there also as it has developed/ in the last...

I N order to understand the bearing of conditions of labour in Shanghai upon recent events it is necessary to have some understanding of the whole question of child labour in...

By NEW MEMBER. T HE session came - to an end, for all practical purposes,' on Thursday, August 6th, when the token votes for the Mining Subvention was passed by an over;...

A NOTHER example of Berkeley's modernity and also of his metaphysical touch is to be found in the following query :-- " 242. Whether money, lying dead in the bank of Amsterchun,...

BY FRANK R. KENT (The Baltimore Sun). TH"t late Theodore Roosevelt once said that the way r an unpopular President to become popular was to get into a row with the United...

Mr. G. B. Shaw, Sir J. Forbes-Robertson, Miss Rose Macaulay, Mr. Basil Dean, Mr. Noel Coward, &c., state their views. T WO weeks ago we expressed certain views on the present...

" TT must be good," said the village blacksmith, " for YY I'm pleased with it myself." He held in his hind a doorlatch in welded iron and steel so truly patterned that it could...

THE MOTORIST AND THE ROAD TEE improvements which have been effected in British roads during the last few years are very great indeed, and largely due to the huge sums raised by...

Before going on their holidays readers are advised to place an order for the SPECTATOR. The journal will be forwarded to any address at the following rates :— One Month . . Two...

Keynes and Sir Josiah Stamp, coupled with the adinission of Sir Henry Strakosch, that " monetary policy has had some share in our impaired power of competition," suggest that...

THE COAL INDUSTRY [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Those who are convinced that the nationalization of industry would prove no less a failure in Britain than it has in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The observations of Mr. Norman Angel upon hotels in American cities of moderate size, and his comparison of one modern specimen thereof...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspondent, in the Spectator of August 8th, points the way to the practical working of a Voluntary Fund for our present distress....

[To the Editor of the SrEcrxroit.] rejoice to report that the week just elapsed has been the fullest of solid encouragement of any since the Spectator Homecroft Fund began. Far...

or contributions to _the proposed Cheltenham Homecrofting Association are being acknowledged in the Spectator. . We were asked to inform you that we have each promised to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your article upon "The Censorship Of the Drama" reminds me that arising out of the Report (1909) of the Joint - Committee, Mr. Herbert...

set out his scheme for Home- crofting in your issue of August 1st, and if I understand him rightly he means the tenants under this scheme to become gradually owners of their...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Evidently I did not make my suggestion clear. I had no intention of proposing that for a subscription of, say, £5 any person might claim a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The M.P.s' protest in the Times in June . was the most important document which has yet appeared on the question of Prayer Book Revision....

Cheltenham man who has had the privilege of working hard with Professor Scott from the beginning, have just a tiny space in which earnestly to appeal to your readers ? I know...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snt,—In your kindness you have allowed me to appeal for years past for contributions towards the Necessitous Ladies' Holiday and General Fund,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR ; Lord Balfour of Burleigh, in his allusion under the above heading to my letter, which you were good enough to print in your issue of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] &a—The article under the above title in your issue of Atigust 8th, revives my hope that the biography of my uncle, Edward Gibbon Wakefield,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of August 8th Mr. Henderson claims to be an authority on the above subject, having had over twenty years' experience as meat...

CROWNS LOVE'S touch is soft, and Death Is gentle, when he takes A sleeping child's light breath, Before it wakes ; But neither Death nor Love Moves softer than I move. Great...

Sin,—For the first time I saw this summer grey squirrels in the Oxford University Parks, and in the adjoining roads and gardens. I do not remember ever having seen there any red...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The following occurrence was recently related to me by a young farmer living on my estate in Monmouthshire. I give it in his own words :—...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The only fault I have to find in your article on the grey squirrel is that it is not quite strong enough in condemna- tion. On this...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Very interesting and suggestive are your quotations from Bishop Berkeley's Querist. But he lived in the time of Queen Anne. Had he been...

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...

THE WOES OF A DESPOT [COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York Times.] Xenophon. Scripts Minora. With an English Translation by E. C. Marchant ; The...

The Espalier. By Sylvia Townsend Warner. (Chatto and Windus. 5s. net.) THE - cuckoo has changed his note, the nightingales, like Norman Douglas' orioles, are tending to give...

T. Brown (Chapman and Hall), a very practical and readable publication. It is designed for the man who owns from one to five acres of land, and it offers him a good selection of...

THERE are fashions in literature, and it seems that of our great lyrical poets few have been so little considered recently as Robert Burns. Editions come out from time to time,...

with application is Mr. Samuel J. Looker's anthology of Cricket (Simpkin Marshall). The history and literature of the game are both well represented. We read, for example, that...

rnE 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...

Evolution in the Light of Modern Knowledge. (Blackie and Son. 21s. net.) ONCE philosophers were accounted the arch-enemies of religion ; at another time, artists ; at a third,...

13n. Bournrm's exposition of oarsmanship will not easily, if ever, be superseded. He tells us in effect that he had intended to write his reminiscences of rowing and to make his...

The Godfather of Downing Street : Sir George Downing, 1623-1684. By John Beresford. (Cobden - Sanderson. 15s.) TIIER.E is something fa.scinatinz about the thought of Downing...

The Idea of Great Poetry. By Lascelles Abercrombie. (Seeker. 6s.) Ma. ABEacaordonE's is a heart-refreshing book to those who feel themselves to be strangers in this present...

by R. B. Cunninghame Graham. Illustrated. (Lane. 12s. 6d.) HERE is a book describing in summary retrospect the experiences of eighteen years spent as an administrator in West...

cultures of ancient Mexico and Central America were offshoots from the civilization of Atlantis. The belief in Atlantis is one that no scientific attacks could kill, and now...

Carra takes great trouble to prove that all that is required for the appreciation of art is keen sensibility. Only occasionally, however, does he himself manage to transfer any...

_ A TOY FOR GROWN-UPS These Mortals. By Margaret Irwin. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d. net.) MELUSINE, the daughter of an Enchanter, grows tired of fairies as companions and wishes to see...

A MUSICAL CRITIC'S HOLIDAY. By Ernest Newman. (Cassel.) Ma. ERNEST NEWMAN'S new book resembles a long musical phrase in which one note is repeated louder and louder until the...

Head. £2 2s. net.) MR. LEWIS limn, in his introduction, puts the consideration - which must strike anyone who studies this massive collection, composed as to more than half of...

Greenery Street. By Denis Mackail. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Mackail makes a charming addition to the fiction which describes in detail the first year of a happy marriage....

THE NEW BANK RATE BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. QUITE the most interesting financial event of the past week has been the reduction in the Bank Rate from 5 to 4i per cent. Its effect...

net.)—Miss Skinner proves in this book that. her share of The Boy in the Bush, which she wrote in collaboration with Mr. D. H. Lawrence, was no negligible one. Black Swans...

The " star " turn has again been taken by Courtaulds, and at the price shown above, the entire capital of the Compan - y is seen to be valued at something like £86,000,000. Even...

Not the least interesting feature in the speculative markets during the past few weeks has been the activity in some of the Mining and Exploration shares, and it will be noted...

RISE IN SECURITIES. To demonstrate the fact that the climax of the holiday season during the early days of August is not always characterized by stagnation in security...

From the foregoing it will be seen that, with the one excel). tion of Rubber shares, almost every section of the Stock Exchange has exhibited a considerable improvement during...