that of Mr. Hartshorn in which lie 'asked for a round table conference to settle the dispute. His plea was the culmination of a very ably argued - case for unification, to which...

regret that the GovernMent have not kept to the Report, and nothing but the Report, as we fear that wIet the French call a situation netts has been sacrificed. Ap- parently the...

Union of Conservative Associations on Tuesday, Lord Birkenhead made important suggestions for legislation in regard to the trade unions, though he explained that on matters of...

of the royalties would save the nation money or make it economically possible to pay the miners higher wages. Our point is rather that if the Report is not taken as , a whole...

introduce a permissiVe Eight Hours Bill for the mines has had some good - effects; as :Iye thought it would, in spite of last week's bitterness and depression. It brought a new...

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his conference with Wu Pei-fu has not come to pass. He has secured the resignation of Mr. W. W. Yen, the Premier in Peking, and one of Wu Pei-fu's men. It is said that there...

Government. He tried at first to form one from among the parties and sections which had shown themselves by their votes in the Chamber willing to support him, a field that lay a...

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald were less of a partisan he would take pains to let it be known that he was willing to meet the Government half-way. There ought to be a conference and, as...

ference will take place after we have gone to press, but we have written elsewhere some general thoughts on the subject. Lord Birkenhead and Mr. Churchill—par- ticularly Mr....

has been discovered in time to avert it. Mustapha Kemal was , to have been killed at Smyrna, where the conspirators were arrested on the eve of his arrival there. Among them are...

another resolution demanding the abolition of the Trade Disputes Act of 1906. We agree that it is necessary to recodify the laws in connexion with trade unions, but we trust...

against the confiscation 'of the imperial and princely properties only slightly exceeded the minimum required to be cast in favour, if the Referendum was to be effective. It has...

second reading in the House of Commons On Tuesday. The Bill proposes to do a good deal, but not everything. It is impossible for us to discuss now its intricacies and its...

of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council should be in any way restricted, for the judgments of the Committee in the past have been invaluable in preventing intolerance and...

The Report proposes that it should consist of lay judges of the highest rank, but that they should not deal with any matter of doctrine, discipline or use. Such matters , would...

in London. It was inaugurated at the Mansion House in 1872, and the Hospital Sunday Fund has distributed to London hospitals more than £3,000,000. The cost of collection and...

Wimbledon makes one marvel at the progress of the game. The days of hesitation are well behind us ; lawn tennis is no longer thought of as one of the less serious games. It is...

and bankrupt West Ham Board of Guardians has burst out again. The Ministry refuses any further advances of money and the Board refuses to economise. An audit has revealed that...

Higginson on his hundredth birthday, and upon the health and vigour with which he is still blessed, as is proved by his attending the inspection by the Duke of Connaught of the...

the constitution of a judicial authority to settle differences in the Church. Apart from a few minor reservations the Report is unanimous. At present the supreme authority is,...

on December 3rd, 925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1001 ; on Wednesday week 1001; a year ago 991. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 801 ; on Wednesday week...

THE INDUSTRIAL PROSPECT. T HE time is ripe, if only industrial peace can be achieved, for such a revival of British trade as has not been known for many years. Only a few...

public opinion has been deeply moved at the attempts, often openly avowed, on the part of certain Russian politicians and officials to interfere in our domestic concerns. No...

House of Commons is concerned. The Finance Bill is now through the Committee,' to the general relief, for the speeches became more appalling in the intensity of their tedium as...

I N England the really important things usually happen without anybody noticing them. And so it is hardly surprising that during all the heat and turmoil of the social...

we have decided to publish a few of the articles, describing a characteristic day's work or experience, which were sent in for a recent competition in the Spectator.] I AM a...

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No one who has been in the Queen's Hall at one of these- meetings wilk.care to deity that Mrs. Besant's auto-suggestive hallucinations are sincere or that her language is...

y IDA is possibly forty years of age—he does not know this with any certainty—but at the time of the outbreak of the Boer War he was just emerging from the native adolescent...

of golf was first played in this country there has never been such golf as the exhibition provided by Mr. " Bobby " Jones at Sunningdale last week. By going round the...

by the Rhodes Trustees for the Rhodes Scholars at Oxford. The Chairman, Sir Otto Belt, gave some further details as to the scope of the new Rhodes House, Which, apart from...

week, July 3rd, at Hendon. There will be group evolutions by six fighting squadrons and by four bombing squadrons, a low bombing attack, air manoeuvres by wireless, a parade of...

Washington haS been dealing with the question of, the pollution of the sea by the discharge of oil from ships and has made strong recommendations as to how . to stop the...

ifs visitors from across the:seas. • Gime are the days, or nearly so, when the..English-speaking visitor. was made to feel that he was not wanted. Five. years ago . the Overseas...

over twelve years. The aim of • these Forest Schools is to build up children who for various reasons are under- nourished. The schools are not residential ; the children live at...

THE Open Air School League of New Zealand, of 145 Breezes Road, Christchurch, New Zealand, sends me a copy of the League's publication The Open Air Life. Climatically there is...

THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA r GRANITE " : A TRAGEDY, BY CLEMENCE DANE. AMBASSADOR'S 'MEATY:ET THE Manichaean Millennarian, Mr. Toobad, used to burst in upon the tea-table talk...

A LETTER FROM PRAGUE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Prosaic as the subject of the weather may be, it would be difficult to disregard it in writing about the past winter...

THEATRE.] TIM first performance of Stravinsky's Les Noces by the Diaghileff Ballet, at His Majesty's Theatre, provoked many loud and foolish declarations. The critics tried very...

THE GREAT INDUSTRIAL OPPORTUNITY . [To the Editor of the. SPECTATOR.] Sra,—The fear that my attitude might have some savour of partiality, inculcated during my work as chairman...

SIR,— -The letter from the editor of the Daily Herald in the current Spectator is interesting, if only because of that conflict of values which is the essential weakness of the...

with interest Mr. Hamilton Fyfe's letter and your able reply. The allusion of his American friend to " King Canute and the waves " reminds me of that poem by William Watson...

you again after the generous allowance of space you gave me last week. But I must ask to be allowed to say in reply to your leading article :- I. That I did not accuse the...

with Mr. Hamilton Fyfe. Most of your readers do not care what he or his American friend thinks. I often read the Daily Herald, and while I recognize the sin- cerity of the...

his letter just published in your columns, accuses the Capitalists' chiefs " of among other things, " blunting the sharpness of intellect by gambling and sport." Only this...

Sin,—Your recent article on " The Fruits of Empire " states That Dominion fruit doubles in cost by the time it reaches the consumer on this side. This statement is incorrect....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—There is one sentence in your suggestive and helpful article on " A Turning of the Ways " to which, I think, many people will take...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Does not your leader writer understate the case when he states that " the grower only receives half of the money which the consumer pays...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—With regard to the storm of indignation that has been raised at Cambridge at the withdrawal of the Grace inviting the UniverSity to confer...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —May I be allowed to appeal to your readers on behalf of the Camp Fund for the London Division of the Boys' Life Brigade ? There is no need for me to stress...

that such letters as the one you published in your last "week's issue from your correspondent, Mr. Hill, will not deter you from continuing your advocacy of the Principle of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is with feelings akin to dismay that I have read the recent articles and letters hi the Speciator headed ". On Hating Ainerica." This...

upon. H.M. King Alfonso XIII. has graciously per- mitted the Department t6 be named after him, and the Spanish Governinent are to make reciprocal arrangements as regards the ....

GATION AREAS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sul,--7 - A brief summary of this Land Commission's Report has been already given in the Manchester Guardian of April 1st. Many...

Sia,—Your correspondent, Mr. L. H. Irvine, is mistaken in thinking that I am " the mouthpiece of a small clique." I speak directly on behalf of the largest cycling club in the...

I was greatly interested in reading the " The New Greenwood," by E. M. N. I had got it into my mind that the Greenwood referred to in Robin Hood was the Holly, which I presume...

NATURE NOTES LARK AND OYSTER PIE. " STAR and not song, sweet bird, thy stave is," wrote Jobson, imi- tating Davies. " Eve heard you singing, and rippled ' Hark ! A hole in...

Ma. J. S. Mammon (The Old Hall, Lowdham, Notts); writes : " One so well informed as the Editor of the Spedato must be aware that there is an increasing number of thoughtful men...

(1 Sea View, St. Mawes, Cornwall) writes :—" I have before me the Spectator of June 12, sent to me by a real friend of that journal, and as I rambled through the ' News of the...

As we announced in our issue of June 5th, we shall be glad to receive, acknowledge in the Spectator, and forward to the Children's Country Holidays Fund any donations our...

STUDIES OF ENGLISH POETS [COPYIUGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY The New York Times.] Tins alluring book is certain to create enthusiasm among the lovers of good...

WE have been asked to make some suggestions for holiday reading and do so on the understanding that - nothing but personal taste can be a guide. The files of the Spectator will...

PROFESSOR FRANCESCO TomassErri has just published in Italian the fourth volume of the Roman Campagna. His distinguished father published the first two volumes in 1910 and the...

Biographical Character Sketch, by Adam Gowan Whyte (thapman and Hall, 5s.), that the present Prime Minister, in velveteens at the age of seven, was a very attractive little boy....

Messrs., Frederick. Warne_ send Us a. faesimile of-the Non- sense Alphabet, drawn, and. composed by Edward Lear about the year 1849. The edition - of 1,000 copies has already...

we did not bring out the fact that this is only the first of a series of four volumes. The next will be published in the autumn and we look forward to reading more of this...

Lecture on The Development of Political Ideas in Italy in the Nineteenth Century given before the British Academy by Commendatore Luigi Villari : a brilliant historical...

IT was Blake's professed purpose to achieve the " intire abrogation of Experimental Theory." Science was. making the rainbow cold and dry for him, as it made it for Keats: He...

(Faber and Gwyer, 21s.) frith a frontispiece of himself. We wonder how many people are now interested in the origins of the War as seen by the ex-Prince William. * * *

The Editor offers a prize of £5 for a list of the seven greatest • • Victorians. - • - Fon the pinposes of the competition, we confine the word Victorians ' the _British...

Ma. TREVELYAN has done a thing so difficult that perhaps one's temptation is to overpraise : at all events, his limitations' should be indicated. Almost every page of his book...

Manners and Tone of Good Society. By Mrs: Dowdall. (Black, 5s.) TAE is nothing to laugh at in this book about manners though the writer often makes one laugh-with her. It is...

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Lucas. Nothing in the world can overwhelm him. He would never need to pray to be " preserved from enthusiasm." His chief virtue (apart from his familiarity with so much of our...

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TO THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH. By Edward P. Cheyney. Vol. II. (Longmans. 30s. net.) PROFESSOR CHEYNEY, of the University of Pennsylvania, is no hasty author. Thirteen years have...

CANON Sr im has written an introduction to this collection of essays by the late Mr. Clutton Brock. " To him," he says, " religion was a thing essentially spontaneous—an...

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action passes chiefly in the country and concerns two elderly. brothers who on their _father's death succeed to his, wealth, which he has kept entirely in his Own hands during...

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By Violet Hunt. (Stanley 3s. 6d. lief.)- 7 -These reprints of four of Miss Violet Hunt's novels bring; together, not before it was time, some oi'The a- very remarkable woman:...

BRAKES AND THEIR FUNCTIONS EVERY motor-car must by law be fitted with two-independent brakes, each one of which is sufficiently powerful to pull up the car within a reasonable...

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The Annual Meeting of the ANTI-SLAVERY AND ABORIGINES PROTECTION SOCIETY will be held on Tuesday, June 29th, at 3 p.m., in the Caxton Hall, Westminster. Lord Olivier and Mr. .1....

OPTIMISTIC MARKETS. APPARENT indifference to the effects of the coal stoppage with an increase not only in investment but in speculative activities continue to characterize the...

THE FRANC AND BRITISH INDUSTRY By ARTHUR W. KIDDY. DURING the past fortnight France has passed through a further crisis, both political and financial. At one time last week...

Not the least interesting feature of the speculative markets during the past few days has been the revival of interest in the various Government loans of Mexico. A good deal of...

so with the " Shell " Transport and Trading Company, the satisfactory financial position made the discussion at the annual meeting very brief, though an able speech was...

Under the chairmanship of Baron Emile d'Erlanger, the financial policy of the Forestal Land, Timber and Ra ilways : Company, Limited, has been a very conservative one, and this...

Scheme recently submitted by the Directors of the Underground Electric Railways of London is that it greatly simplifies the method of distribution of profits. Time was, of...

With conditionS of great prosperity indicated by increased dividend and bonuses, it is not surprising that the recent Meeting of the British American Tobacco Company should have...

For some few years the Annual Reports of George Newnes have shown good results and the figures for last year are thoroughly satisfactory, the profits having risen further from...

When speaking last week before a large audience, the Chancellor of the Exchequer not only deprecated the action of the Soviets in stimulating Socialistic propaganda in this and...

the tactics of the Soviet Government,. the City, of course, is entirely in accord. In some respects Mr. Churchill was talking platitudes, because it is always up to the trader...

At the recent Annual Meeting of Odharns Press, the chairman, Lt.-Col. W. Grant Morden, was able to announce a very satisfactory result of the year's working. The net profit was...