Trade Unions is still the principal subject of controversy. Many Unionist organizations throughout the country have been urging the Government to give Mr. Macquisten's Bill...

is one of their first tactical movements to be the unnecessary act of giving choice of ground to their opponents ? We cannot believe it. The Government, have so much...

I T is good news that the King, who has been much troubled by bronchitis, following upon influenza, is making much better progress. No doubt he is consider- ably pulled down...

troubles of the Labour Party are serious and significant. What is called " want of discipline " is the root trouble. But that only means that the •members of the Labour Party...

very poor business. All sensible Labour men recognize to-day that every State must have its symbolical Head. They do not at all wish to exchange our crowned and hereditary...

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new disarmament conference to be summoned either by this country or by the United States, or jointly by the two countries. We do not profess to know their basis, but it is...

symptom of the Labour Party's weak- nesses. Mr. Cook and Mr. Hodges are at one another's throats in the mining dispute. Mr. Hodges uses the practical argument that as...

any such conference being effective while the present situation in the Rhineland continues. In the opinion of many competent French and German observers we are -heading straight...

Communists are very few they have been able, after the manner of minorities, to make a considerable noise. They have butted into the negotiations between the miners and the...

Whiteley, the Labour member, introduced. his Bill to extend the vote to women over the age of twenty-one. Mr. Henderson offered to postpone the operation of the Bill until the...

behalf of the Fine Arts Corn- rnission--and from Mr. Muirhead Bone pleading for the postponement of a decision to act on -the Report of the L.C.C. Special .Committee and destroy...

leader pronounces his views on our national problems, that the chances of a Liberal revival, which for a time looked possible or even -likely, are fading. Lord Oxford made his...

clear that in his opinion free and unregulated trade is in essence un-Socialistic and that therefore Socialists need have absolutely no objection, in principle, to Tariff...

in a White Paper. The expenditure was £3,900,000 and the receipts were £2,100,000—a deficit of £1,800,000. Although this is a considerable loss no rational person has ever...

July 5th, 1923. 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 101* ; Thursday week, 101* ; a year ago, 1001. 3 per cent. Conversion Loan was on Thursday, 784 ; Thursday week, 7916 ; a...

place on March 5th. The Municipal Reformers have, in our judgment, a very good right to be returned to office on their merits. They have reduced the rates by ls. 3id. in the £....

loss by the death of M. Branting, for three short periods Prime Minister of his country. Without agreeing with his Socialist theories we admired during the War the skill with...

the Special Committee. This means the demolition of Waterloo Bridge, the building of a new wide bridge with not more than five arches over the river, and the provision of a...

FRANCE, GERMAN Y AND SECURITY THE situation, both general and particular, caused -I- by the relations between Germany and France, and by the demand of France that we should...

I lIME indeed brings its revenges. There were occasions not only during the War but before it when it seemed impossible that M. Caillaux should ever return to public life. Yet...

[We published lately an article from.a South African correspondent who gave a reassuring account of General Hertzog's Government. He said in effect that the Government was doing...

BY " NEW MEMBER." T HE debates on the Supplementary Estimates have gone gloomily on, and despite some valiant efforts at obstruction on the part of the Clyde men the subject-...

By Dios. G. JAMESON, F.C.I.S., Chairman of the Postal Committee of the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce. IF VERYONE is interested, more or less, in our Post Office Services, and...

_ stalls and . at most newsagents, and, except for a few isolated and distant areas, should be available on . Friday. The Publisher would be grateful if readers would bring -...

H AS a. new and effective method of applying wind to the propulsion of ships at last been discovered ? For hundreds of years there has been no essential change in the design of...

T HE rat is not a likeable fellow. Here in Great Britain he wastes at least £50,000,000 a year by eating foodstuffs, damaging merchandise and buildings, killing poultry, and...

T r is still -a-superstition in - England- that summer - is the time to look forward - to .: the summers . themselves cannot cure us of it. But it is one- of the characteristics...

ANOTHER PIECE OF HAMLET Tan new Hamlet from America was revealed to us at the foot of a formidable staircase which winds, at the Haymarket Theatre, up to the battlements of the...

an ideal present for an absent friend. For this sum the paper will - be forwarded to any address in the world. Apply : Manager, the SPECTATOR, 13 York Street, Covent Garden,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—I have read with interest the letter of J " on " Com- mercial English " in your issue of February 14th. In his con- cluding sentence " J...

correspondent, " J," happily deluded himself that Commercial English is a passing phase, but he must have lived far from the network of modern business life if he is optimistic...

THE POST OFFICE AND THE TREASURY [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Smn,—Sir William Acworth's letter on the Post Office as a business proposition fails to convince. The Post...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—One of my English friends has been so kind as to send me a copy of your issue of January 17th, in which, under the caption " The New Bread " you in a very...

to understand why I should have incurred the almost sacra indignatio of Mr. Whitbread's letter. All that I have done or tried to do has been to fix attention upon the report...

SPECTATOR.] Sui,—This successful experiment in public management and 2ontrol of the Liquor Trade has been in operation for some eight and a half years. By its means have been...

interested in the wheatmeal question. The idea of Mr. F. Berney is a good one, and would be- perfect if, instead of using the wholemeal as ground, he would bolt-out the bran...

week's Spectator comments upon an instance of cold-blooded barbarity which occurred in a recent fox hunt. But are not such incidents fairly common in connexion with this sport ?...

above subject•by "Ex-Bursar" in your last issue is instructive, and tempts me to put forward the following suggestions :—(1) That the Bursars of the future should undergo a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—" Jab " refers to railway managers as " men of great experience," but he does not give them.credit for• profiting by the result of...

admit that Holborn Viaduct Station could be usefully discarded and that one of the worst eyesores in London is the railway bridge - at the bottom of Ludgate Hill. It is...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] may be of interest to your correspondent, re the above, to know that Japanese rice is always unpolished and infinitely superior for puddings,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The ethics of sport, especially from the cruelty point of view, are difficult to discuss ; the more one argues, the more involved one...

the mistress for any unsatisfactory conditions in domestic service, but passes lightly over the folly that induces a girl to leave a situation where she is being well trained,...

seems to me of general interest I have obtained permission from the writer to forward it to you for publication on the understanding that her name and the address of the school...

with the request of " Jab " for more week-end facilities for cheap travel which was published in your issue of January 24th, there is much to be said from the point of view of...

[To the Editor of the .SPECTATOR.] Snr,—In the -comprehensive or "All-in " Insurance scheme which Mr: - Baldwin contemplates there seems to be afforded to the - Government nn...

January 10th you were good enough to allow me to appeal in your columns for the unhappy remnant of British subjects marooned in Russia. I have long ago ceased_ to be , surprised...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,— III a postscript to his last letter " I. L. P." alluded to the lack of alacrity with which the miner hews his ton— or 17 cwt.—of coal per shift,...

would thank the reviewer of my anthology of epigrams, The Soul of Wit, for his interesting remarks in your issue of January 31st. There are, however, two. points which I should...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It would be most kind of you if you would allow me to draw the attention of your readers to a course of lectures on " Everyday Psychology in the Nursery," to...

permit a reply to the query raised by Mrs. Hamilton in your issue of the 14th inst. Whenever the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is moved to the...

SPECTATOR.] Sin,—" 'I've got within a single letter, brother Toby,' cried my father. ' You are near enough, brother,' replied my uncle ' in all conscience." Pshaw ! ' cried...

A man crept out of London town, Haggard and pale and broken down; And met a maid in the countryside Who smiled so kindly that he died. J. D. NEWTS.

SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In Mr. J. A. Steuart's recently-published work, Robert Louis Stevenson—Man and Writer, issued by Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston and Co., an error occurs on p....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—My publishers (Messrs. Kegan Paul) have called my attention to a short review of my book, Sea? and Civilization, which appeared in the...

ON A PAINTER OF FAMOUS BEAUTIES AND HIS WIFE Here Phoebe lies : who all her virtuous life Never knew jealousy, though Colin's wife. Here Colin lies : of equal virtue he,...

SHOULD THE TUCK-BON BE REFORMED ?—Mr. Charles E. Hecht, of the Food Education Society, 329 Vauxhall Bridge Road, S.W. 1, writes :—The abolition of the tuck-shop is not...

SIR,—I have not read Mr. Richard Boeckel's book but I wish I could share the optimism of your excellent review of it in your issue of last week. It is not easy to see how the...

THE SONNETS OF SHAKESPEARE [COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York Times.] The Sonnets of Shakespeare. Edited from the Quarto of 1609, with Introduction...

" his habits, outlook, and home life " (Philpot), and pleasantly surprises us by her reticence. In this respect she is so exemplary that we are scarcely conscious of having...

Dent's series, The King's Treasuries of Literature. Most of them are well-remembered classics—Goldsmith, Arnold, Shakespeare. The two most interesting reprints are Trelawny's...

THERE is nothing of exceptional importance among the books we have received this week. Mr. Bertram Newman has written a very clear and temperate study of Cardinal Newman (Bell)....

of our older dramatic critics. He was one of the first impres- sionist critics : he wrote, that is to say, straight from his reactions to the plays he saw, not bothering to...

inference. We have to take its facts, and to give them a meaning, and to draw our own conclusion from them." In a very closely reasoned but easily intelligible pamphlet, The...

A CORRESPONDENT has suggested that many readers would be pleased if we printed a handful of entries, good, bad, and indifferent, and attached no comment to them at all : readers...

WHEN scepticism has gone its full journey, when it " doubts truth to be a liar," it finds itself at the beginning again : it trembles on the verge of belief. There was a school...

Autobiography of J. S. Mill. (Columbia 'University Press. 12s. lid.) Autobiography of J. S. Mill. (World's Clagiiies. 2s.) . BY many people the autobiography of John Stuart...

Men and Policies. By Elihu Root. (Cambridge, U.S.A. : Harvard University Press ; Landon : Humplyoy Milford, Oxford University Press. $5.) Tuts last large volume of collected...

Louis COUPERUS earned a fame which extended far beyond Dutch-speaking limits, and the latest of his works—post- humously published—would be welcome in translation if only...

AMERICA is generous with her education ; a college career is possible there for everyone, but a doubt is beginning to arise whether a great deal of this education is not wasted...

DEEP SEA CHANTIES. Edited by Frank Shay. Illustrated by E. A. Wilson. (Heinemann. 15s. net.) THESE lively ,and natural old songs are a treasure of huincur and bold rhythm, and...

MEN LIKE BEASTS MR. TASKER'S Gods were pigs. He would haul his family out of bed at half-past three in the morning to look after those pigs. He would curse them and buffet them...

Creagli and E. M. Humphries. 3 vols. (Standard Art Book Cu. £4 4s.) THESE three volumes are a record not only of splendid impetuous courage, of men who fought single-handed...

English. With an Introduction by R. S. Garnett. (Stanley Paul. 7s. 6d. net.) Mr. R. S. Garnett's introduction is one of the most interesting things in this volume, containing,...

CHEERFUL MARKETS By ARTHUR W. KIDDY WITHOUT very much increase in business, the past week has been - a good one on the Stock Exchange. How much of the firmness of British Funds...

seeking investment, and also, perhaps, of the comparative scarcity of Trustee securities was afforded by the success which attended the Queensland Conversion Loan. The total, it...