Abd-el-Krim in Morocco, reported in Wednesday's paper that Abd-el-Krim had stated that he had many times informed Marshal Lyautey of his desire for a friendly agreement with...

F EW Foreign Secretaries have had the intense pleasure, just enjoyed by Mr. Austen Chamberlain, of seeing a long period of misgiving, difficulty and discouragement culminate...

Peking could hardly be worse, as the civil war has flared up' again and reached a more acute phase. The confusion is so great that it is almost impossible to disentangle...

Monday, but owing to the suspension of railway traffic the Chinese delegates are slow in arriving. The difficulties of the Conference will be extraordinary. It was intended to...

of sur• prises some favourable turn may enable the Conference to do what was intended—to make generous concessions both political and financial to the Chinese in recognition of...

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Revised Prayer Book Measure.' The Archbishop of Can- terbury, with presided, referred to the large number of representations and memorials which he had received, and emphasized...

in the shipbuilding industry has issued an interim Report which is of great significance. It shows that there is at least a disposition among the trade unions to recognise the...

Bruce aims at a revival of Nationalism and hopes to make the National Party what it was in 1916 when the most capable of the Labour moderates belonged to it. Mr. Bruce boldly...

to the Minister of Health and accepted his conditions for a future loan with which (less the value of the vouchers supplied through the late emergency) to carry on their...

paper that Mr. Hughes has definitely come down on the side of Mr. Bruce in the Australian election cam- paign and has predicted that the Nationalists will win. The Labour Party...

froth the beginning the employers have wisely disclaimed any idea of reducing wages or increasing the hours of work. The most important part of the Report deals with the...

but their delegates have initialled the recommendations. It will be remembered that the Committee- was set up last April owing to the consterna- tion caused when Messrs....

wages in order to provide work 'for the boilermakers. The proposal is, of course, open to the same objections that were considered decisive against Sir Alfred Mond's recent...

Monday, at Farnborough, a performance and tests of the newly invented Cierva " Auto-Giro," which promises a considerable advance in aeronautics. An aeroplane of a well-known...

the end of this month after prolonging its life until the Royal Family was gathered from Scotland and South America to see the " Tattoo." This item has proved to be, of all...

the news- papers about the propriety of celebrating Armistice Day by fancy dress balls and special festivities. The Rev. H. R. L. Sheppard in a letter to the Times denounced...

experiment in providing a handyman's ,training for young men. Four hundred young men will "be trained at Birmingham, four hundred at Newcastle, and two hundred at each of the...

the National Trust to purchase a part at least of the Ashridge property which has to be sold. The Trust has had an offer of £20,000, which has already justified negotiations for...

gases in the course of his researches we have lost a most valuable scientist. After a very promising career at Cambridge he put his entomological knowledge at the service of the...

has reported to the London County Council that Waterloo Bridge needs reconstruction from the foundations upwards. If he is right we ought as soon as possible to stop pulling...

on October 1st, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 102 ; on Thursday week 1021 ; a year ago 1021. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 87k ; on Thursday week...

LOCARNO AND THE NEXT STEP 0 T HE best thing that has happened since the War " —that is a reasonable- description of what has been accomplished at Locarno. Only three years ago...

G ENRRAL OCTOBRE has taken charge in Morocco ; the autumn rains and mists are driving across the mountains. There is thus time to take thought. In our opinion there might have...

T HE Report of the Committee of the Privy Council for Scientific and Industrial Research for the Year 1924-5, has just been published. It is a document to which the harassed...

BY THE VERY REV. W. R. INGE, DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S T HE Archbishop of Canterbury has exhorted the clergy to take more pains with their sermons. The result, as might have been...

T HE Minister of Health last week a. Dundee con- firmed the Prime Minister's statement lately made in Glasgow that scarcely any improvement was to be found in Scottish housing,...

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A GREAT deal of interest has been aroused by the proposal to start a British Housewives' Association, and many people are asking for information respecting the scope and methods...

N TISITORS to this country from North America and the Dominions often get the impression that everybody here has a " sniffle." It is the fact that the far too common cold is...

article, has a , three or four years' scheme in hand for I giving better, ampler and lighter quarters to birds, reptiles and monkeys. Its last official report was very candid...

MISS RUTH DRAPER TnE phrase on the programme " Original Character Sketches " does not adequately describe Miss Ruth Draper's performance.. Her art is indefinable because she is...

THE NECESSITY FOR GOOD FILMS WHEN those whose responsibility and business it is to make and sell films tell us, as they do daily, that it is madness to make good films unless...

A LETTER FROM STOCKHOLM [To the Editor of the Srse-r.vroa.1 Sia,—The worst period of deflation and distress, aftermath of the Great Peace, has apparently been passed, and...

THE ARTILLERY MEMORIAL. Dunnin the last few months the aspect of Hyde Park Corner has been completely altered. Till recently it retained both from the architectural character...

SOCIALISM AND THE COMMON LAW [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Of late I have received circulars from more than one anti-Socialist body, which I have not answered, partly...

Sia,—Mr. Bernard Shaw's definition of Capitalization might have been accepted fifty years ago, but its interest to-day is merely historical. I observe that the most recent...

[To the Editor of the SeEeraTon.] Sin,—Your article on the O.M.S. and a letter on the same subject in the Speiator of October 17th raise the interesting question of the...

have read .with great interest your comments on the reform of the House of Lords proposals. Your solution seems to be the adoption of a Referendum. I am aware that the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I congratulate you on your courageous and timely - leading article " Mr. Baldwin and His Critics" ? I am writing. to the Editors of...

the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—A few days ago I witnessed a performance of Iolanthe by the D'Oyly Carte Company, and a few days earlier a performance of The Mikado : and having been...

Sin,—It was with great pleasure that I read your article in the issue of the 10th inst. dealing with the unfair criticism of Mr. Baldwin. It has been exceedingly annoying to me...

SIR,--Though dog does not eat dog, it is not unusual for dog to fight dog. Not so long ago it was common enough for newspaper to fight newspaper. It is entirely right and proper...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--In dealing with the above in your first leading article of October 17th you appear completely to overlook the fact that under the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,--In the early spring, when the sunlight was returning, you allowed me to appeal in your columns, in order that we might make it available...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I be permitted, in the interests of accuracy, to point out an error into which the reviewer of Mr. Luke's book on this subject has...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the very interesting article entitled, " What is Wrong with England ? " published in your issue of October 10th, the writer epitomized...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—One of the most interesting and attractive hymn-books known to me is the Olavian Hymnal, compiled by Mr. W. G. Rushbrooke, formerly...

Hymn-books in last week's Spectator reminds me of a conversation I had with one of the Editors of The English Hymnal while that excellent hymn- book was in the press. He...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A Public Meeting will be held in Essex Hall Strand, on Friday, October 30th, 1925, at 8 p.m. for 8.30 p.m. Reso- laticns will be moved (1)...

two men have given their opinions upon the article in your paper about men's dress, perhaps you will allow an old woman to give hers. I am inclined to believe your contributor...

SIR, —A school inspector told me that he was inspecting a school in Kerry. The teacher was proud of his Irish and of the children's knowledge of it. He asked them why St....

with your article on the subject of Anglo- American scholarships, it may interest you to know that the Trinity College, Oxford, Record for 1923-4, states that a Travelling...

AUTUMN TWILIGHT Now Thou art lightening the hills around With clouds for lanterns, lighted from far away. Fair was the noon, yet dipping Thine earth in darkness, Thou makest...

of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Y011 quoted a letter from an Argentine correspondent who described how the Prince of Wales did not keep an engage- ment to visit a school. You joined...

Oswald Young- husband writes ; The Indian Church Measure will before long come before the National Church Assembly. At the recent Church Congress the Bishop of Bombay sought to...

T O - pectator No. 5078.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1925. [GRATIS.

I HAVE written down these fragmentary recollections from the talks my colleagues and I had about the Moscow Art Theatre, its life, our dreams of its future, our memories of its...

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Boswell's Life of Johnson. Edited, with notes, by Roger Ingpert.1 - (G. Bayntun. Bath. 2 vols. 36s.) WITH its characteristic passion for exploring the mediocre, our generation...

The Belief in. Personal Immortality. By E. S. P. Haynes. (Grant Richards. 7s. 6d.)' IT might be healthily presumed that no one would write a book upon the life beyond death who...

Russia. By N. Makeev and V. O'Hara. (Bean. 15s. net.) WE have no hesitation in earnestly recommending the volumei Russia, by Messrs. N. Makeev and V. O'Hara, to all who...

Tic Letters of Thomas Manning to Charles Lamb. Edited by G. A. Anderson. (Seeker. 8s. 6d. net.) To rest in the shadow of Charles Lamb's friendship is both glory and extinction....

The Ascetic Works of St. Basil. By W. K. L. Clarke. (S.P.C.K. 12s. 6d.) THE instinct of solitude among men appears to be incredibly ancient, but the motives that may drive men...

A Book of Latin Poetry : From Ennius to Hadrian. By E. V. Rieu. (Methuen. 3s. 6d.) A BOOK of 120 pp., including commentary, which is to give a bird's-eye view of Latin poetry...

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IMMORTAL LOVERS WHETHER and how far these letters are authentic is probably impossible to decide. We cannot trace a manuscript earlier than the fourteenth century, and this has...

HANNAH MORE was a quick-witted and intelligent young lady when Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and her circle were be- ginning to feel their age keenly, and they appreciated her...

The Everlasting Man. By G. K. Chesterton. (Hodder and Stoughton. 12s. 6d. net.) [A review of the first half of Mr. Chesterton's book was published in last week's issue of the...

some months ago, has now published his Tour in Ireland (Cambridge University Press). Young travelled through Ireland in 1776, 1777, and 1778, at a time when the condition of the...

Autolriography of a Super-Tramp with an account of his later years. Later Days (Cape) begins :- " After some consideration I have decided that I have enough good material to...

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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. NONE of our...

IT could not be said of Gray's letters, as Coleridge said of Cowper's, that they are " divine chit-chat " ; for in his work and his character, Gray was a terrestrial being. His...

The Science of Fairytales. By Edwin Sidney Hartland. (Methuen. 6s. net). IN the latter half of the nineteenth century a learned revolu- tion, happily hidden from children,...

Words and Idioms : Studies in the English Language. By L. P. Smith. (12s. 6d.) THESE two books, each in its own sphere, are indications of the direction which the study of...

THE latest of the many biographies of the Empress Josephine is a pleasantly written and amusing volume which will interest the general reader if it does not add to what was...

G. Plimmer. (Longman& 2s. 6d.) AMONG the multifarious activities of the faddist, the quack, the ill-informed reformer, special attention has always been given to the subject of...

IN one brief passage Fabre gives an excellent account of the true method of deciding which wild creatures may be called useful and which may be exterminated as vermin : " ' Show...

Nicou.'s new survey of the British Drama is not likely to increase his reputation. Apart from its summaries of the author's previously published works on Restoration and early...

and gives us a compact and accurate account of Beethoven's life, with a list of his works. In a handbook what is wanted' chiefly, we admit, is facts, but possibly many students...

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School Verse, containing twenty-nine poems by seventeen young authors. In every way it compares favourably with the volumes previously published. The verse of Mr. A. C. Frost...

very much in the spirit of an affable companion in an arm-chair. He writes in a strain of remin- iscence very suggestive of the evening pipe, and gives us some of his own...

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IT must not be supposed that, becarise no immediate great response has been given by public securities to the signing of the European Pact at Locarno, the City is unmindful of...

LECTURES At King's College, October 26th and 28th, 5.30.—Herr Binding's third and fourth lectures on Modern German poetry. October 27th, 5.30.--SouLrrVsx : DONATELLO. By Dr....

In a certain section of the Press there is already a popular clamour for an immediate removal of the embargo on the grounds that foreign loans tend to stimulate our trade....

I am not surprised to find that that experienced and astute observer of international finance, Mr. R. J. Hose, chairman of the Anglo-South American Bank, has been quick to...

Not the least interesting of the capital flotations of the past week has been the private offer to existing stockholders and employees of the Southern Railway of an issue of 5...

The recent annual report of Harrisons and Crosfield, showing an increased dividend on the deferred shares from 25 to 30 per cent., prepared the shareholders for a satis- factory...

BANK RATE PROSPECTS. IN dealing with the effect of the European Pact upon the financial situation I have already referred to the large exports of gold and the uncertainty which...