are to have greater production and the efficiency which comes from standardization and the planning out of markets. A really important question, therefore, is whether inter- ,...

T HE most interesting event of the week, to our thinking, has been the meeting of British and German industrial leaders at Colonel Wilfrid Ashley's house in Hampshire, the old...

the position in which Great Britain was in 1840 ; her population can no longer be maintained on a rising standard of living from her own agricultural resources. Her highly...

about the result which every far-seeing person told them was bound to come. The dispute is indeed being " settled," but in a manner that does not deserve the name of settlement....

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the mines at the head of the election programme. But the Conference had also to consider whether the millers were in the meantime to be helped, and, if so, how. Mr. J. H....

with .Mr. Robert Williams, who in courageous words, which could not have come from him two or three years ago, said plainly that he " could not foresee Social- ism coming from...

relations between Labour and Communism were the principal 'topic 'of the first day and the Com- munists were routed with more than the usual severity. Although the refusal to...

Unionist Associations opened at Scar- borough on Thursday, October 7th. It was evident at once that the delegates were intent upon trade union reform and Mr. Baldwin's speech...

A • familiar demand is that there should be a secret ballot among the men before a strike can be legally declared. In theory the demand is excellent, for we all know that the...

best to check the flowing tide of folly, but he ignominiously failed. On Friday, October 8th, the Dele- gate Conference met again and expelled from the Con- ference Mr. George...

the decision of the Delegate Conference. Mr. Cook was evidently awed by this fact, as, speaking last Saturday in Nottinghamshire, he advised the men to think before they...

son, after a motor accident, has afflicted with a strange pang of personal sorrow a great many persons who never knew him. For memories flew back to those days in the War when...

He had, of course, a grateful appreciation of all that General von Seecht had done for the Reichs- wehr, and as a fellow-soldier he was naturally unwilling to part with such a...

the German Reichswehr, is a satisfactory solution of an incident which, differently managed, might have been not only humiliating to the German Government, but injurious to the...

before the Conference. It provides, of course, for nationalization and bureaueratic.eontrol. Compensa- tion at a low rate would be paid to landowners. The scheme is like Mr....

paper that the Canton Government had appointed Yang Sen to the command of one of its armies. This was surprising news, so far as anything in China can be surprising, because...

George Sutton, Messrs: W. H. Smith and others about the postage of British periodicals in the Empire. At present the weight of a parcel of printed matter sent overseas from...

to Mr. A. B. Walkley, whose death we also regret to record. He helped gradually to popularize what were once the unpopular plays of ideas. Mr. William Archer and Mr. Bernard...

A. Abbott at the age of eighty-seven. He was a very famous Head-Master of the City of London School. Under him the school became greatly respected at the Universities for its...

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

THE MOOT OF THE BRITANNIC NATIONS [" Differences there must arise—petty conflicts of interests and of right. If we approach them. in a proper spirit of forbearance and...

W HEN Mr. Baldwin spoke at the Unionist Party Conference at Scarborough he was necessarily rather on the defensive. He had, in effect, to tell the hot-heads of his party that...

A N Italian cook I know expresses views on Political Economy which would be a credit to many of our politicians. Phrases such as " Production is the fountain-head of prosperity...

M Y overwhelming impression in both Northumberland and Durham is that the miners in these regions are stronger for the continuance of the strike than are their leaders. And the...

BY RABBI MATTUCK T HE relevant aspect of Liberal Judaism can be best introduced historically. Over a century ago several of the European nations for the first time gave the Jew...

D INNY and Danny represent to me the spirit of the hotel system in South-Western Ireland and I write of them in a grateful spirit. For without them and all their cousins hotel...

A GROUP, whom we may describe as architectural aesthetes, are setting forth on the great adventure of conserving England. A part of the plan is to produce a map which shall show...

W E were a fairly peaceful lot until Mr. Ramsay MacDonald announced his intention of making our ship his means of transport to the attempted Stockholm Peace Conference. From the...

CHAMBER MUSIC AT BRADFORD ONE would have thought that the busy industrial city of Bradford would have been the very last place to entertain the idea of a chamber-music...

" VIOLINISTS PREFER FIDDLES " r MADE IN HEAVEN."—BY PHYLLIS MORRIS.—EVERYMAN.1 %WE knew, of course, that there is a tendency on the part of highly-strung violinists to prefer...

[" LOVE ADRIFT:'—GAIETY THEATRE.] AFTER a brief and well-planned siege, the Gaiety Theatre has capitulated to the Hungarians, who are doing their very best to live up to the...

A LETTER FROM NEW ORLEANS [To the . Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—America's most astonishing city is marking time for itself. Travellers who left it in the beginning of the...

A REAL IMPERIAL PARTNERSHIP [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—You had an extraordinarily interesting article under the above heading in the Spectator for September 18th,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sot ,—The attitude of the Free State Government towards the measures of Imperial reconstruction to be considered at the Imperial Conference is...

[To the Editor of the SPEcrAron.] Sra,—In commenting upon the late Dr. Adami's Church Congress paper, with its analogy between scientific and religious belief, you said last...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] note your commendation of the proprietors of Punch who, upon the expiration of existing contracts, will decline to receive or renew liquor...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] am afraid some people will be misled by the mischievous statements in Mr. Edward Clodd's letter on this subject in your issue of October 9th....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] am glad that you have found room for my letter, referring to the Mablethorpe Whale, in your issue of October 9th, and for the explanation, in...

Sin, Mr. Yeats-Brown's account of the liquefaction of the Blood of Januarius is the best witnessed and described miracle in modern literature. A gem of journalism. There is...

Sut,—It is understood that the Archbishops and Bishops are to resume this month, I believe on October 21st, their proposals for Prayer Book Revision. Reference was made to the...

as great a shock to find the Spectator surprised into comment upon the Kaiser's observation that Scotsmen have the greater sense of humour as to learn that he whose judgment was...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The interesting article of NorthOmbriensis seems to me to leave out one very important difference between the sect and the Englishman—it...

have been told that one of Punch's staff stated that three-fourths of their jokes came from Scotland. A company of Scots who get going on " stories " give an evening quite...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May a cousin of Mr. Penrose thank " A " for his letter of appreciation ? Such words do much to serve that cause of unity for which...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—In last week's instalment of My Early Life, by the ex- German Emperor, he describes a visit to London in the 'eighties " (apparently on...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I was much interested in the letter of Dr. Frank Collie in your correspondence columns of October 2nd. I had antici- pated some comment on...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It may interest your readers and Sir W. Beach Thomas to know that the attempt to grow hops in Berkshire is not the first of its kind in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I read with interest in recent issues of yo - ur esteemed publication complaints respecting the non-dating, narrow page margins and poor...

WE have blossomed; achieved our beauty, exchanged perfume, Loved, fertilized, fruited, died,—and await 'resurrection :- We have jostled and pricked each other—but alt our roots...

IF WE FOUND WORLDS IF we found worlds of sapphire and of jade Peopled with Lancelots and proud Etarres Fit for our perfect mating, if one laid Star upon star and built a house...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Before leaving for India last week, Sir Jagadis Bose pointed out to me that the Spectator, which has taken such an interest in his...

TO pertator "MY EARLY LIFE." By the EX-GERMAN EMPEROR. [Full Copyright reserved by the Spectator.] No. 5129.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1926. [GB Aus.

By the EX-GERMAN EMPEROR (Full Copyright reserved by the Spectator.) [For the next few weeks we shall publish each week free supplement to the SPECTATOR continuing this...

Fifty Years of Parliament. The Earl of Oxford and Asquith, S.G. (Camels. In two volumes, £2 10s. net, with illustrations.) " It covers," writes Lord Oxford of his book, " the...

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The Editor offers a prize of £5 far a list of The Seven Wonders of the Modern World (20th Century). EACH list should be of definite, concrete " Wonders." It would not be...

guide to 1927 cars.

younger poets. We confess to looking through his cleverly-titled News of the Devil (Been, 3s. 6d.) with a in anxiety, for it is a poem about a publisher who d to make a corner...

would make an ideal gift, is The Book of the Aeroplane, Captain Pritchard (Longmans. 7s. 6d.). The early history flying is briefly but graphically told. Oialy seven people (not...

BY THE New York Tirites.] Tins is an excellent as well as a very timely book. The first thing to remember about Lord Shaftesbury is that he was a Puritan—a man who sought the...

ReNNIE EVERTON is an entirely delightful person married to the detestable and hideously pious Edith, who with her daughter Priscilla and her father Lord Arden, contrive to make...

(Sampson w, 42s.), makes some amusing observations in his usual chant style on the difficulty he has had in obtaining ormation about the progress of aviation in France : regards...

A review of Don Sturzo's Italy under Fascism°.

Wimp; William Pitt was forty-six he married Lady 11e4 1 Grenville. He had known her from her girlhood ; ti e Grenvilles were his political allies and his personal frienib But...

sm and Evolution. By General the Right Hon. J. C. Smuts. (Macmillan. 18s.) MINENT statesmen have been addicted to Philosophy ever the days of Marcus Aurelius. The earlier...

H. G. Wells : Educationist. By F. H. Doughty. (Cape. 5s.: net.) . Wu are astonished that a dull book can be written on Mr. Wells. At least, we should have thought, he is...

AN episode in the history of London is admirably h a by Mr. J. Paul de Castro in The Gordon Riots (Oxf University Press, 18s. net), a piece of sound re which deserves to be...

Homilies and Recreations. By John Buchan. (Nelson. 7s. 6d. net.) A COLLECTION of essays and papers is generally a nondescript sort of thing, an excuse for appearing in print...

BEFORE THE BOMBARDMENT. By Osbert Sitwell. (Duckworth. 7s. 6d. net.)—Some thousands of people— perhaps more—are bound to dislike this clever novel. Mr. Sitwell did not, in any...

Philip Gibbs's novels have more than a superficial resemblance to those cinema ffims which display current events. The fact that his technique includes a plot may be eliminated,...

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Villiers-Stuart calls his volume of Irish stories Land of Day-Dreams, and he contrives to convey across St. George's Channel the authentic vaguely poetic feeling of that country...

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issues six Christian Education Manuals," which furnish clear and freshly-written analyses of the subjects with which they deal. These are Baptist Principles, by Mr. H. Wheeler...

THE AMATEUR SETTLERS. By Lord and Lady Apsley. (Hodder and Stoughton. 10s. 6d.)—The European War has a deal to answer for, and before 1914 the eldest son of a peer who happened...

THE THREE-LITRE BENTLEY No other car has ever established a reputation for super- excellence so quickly as the three-litre Bentley. The first model to be designed was put upon...

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AUSTRALIAN BORROWING BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. ONSIDERABLE interest has been aroused in financial ;ides during the past fortnight by the publication of pamphlet on Australian...

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ADDITIONS TO THE BOARD. It is partly owing to this change in method of presenting the accounts that certain reductions are shown in some of the items of the balance sheet....

have referred in these columns to the great part played by the Central Banks of the various countries in aiding financial recuperation after the War, and especially in aiding...

SOME ARGENTINE RAILWAY RESULTS. Argentine Railway results have, as a rule, thoroughly fulfilled the expectations of shareholders. This is certainly so in the case of the latest...

LECTURES. Monday, October 18th, at 5.30 p.m.—THE HOLY PLAcr:a Assisi. By Dr. Walter Seton. At the University of London, Goys. . ; Street. Also at 3.30 p.m., OPIUM IN CHINA AND...