28 MAY 1932

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M. Herriot Taking Over

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The interview between M. Tardieu and M. Herriot at the Elysee on Tuesday has given rise to more random speculation than seems called for. Such affairs, after all, are sometimes...

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News of the Week

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TITHE repeated warnings of the Chancellor of the -a- Exchequer on the need for further economies must be taken seriously. Further economy may be the only alternative to further...

The Prospects for Ottawa

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Mr. George Lambert, who sits for a Devonshire consti- tuency, asked the Minister of Agriculture on Monday whether Ise was aware that Devon producers had been obliged to hold...

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Bewildered America

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Some indication of the state of mind of the bewildered public of America is given in an article in another column by an experienced observer who has just returned from the...

Miss Earhart's Achievement

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Miss Earhart (Mrs. Putnam) is to be congratulated on the courage, the good fortune and the efficient Wasp engine which enabled her to fly the Atlantic, from New- foundland to...

Germany and Lausanne

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The battle for the control of Prussia, with all the reper- cussions that it will have on the Government of the Reich, is now joined, literally as well as metaphorically. The...

A Great Shipowner Scotland and the Empire lose an able

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and vigorous personality in Lord Inchcape, who died suddenly on Monday while on his yacht at Monte Carlo. The son of a small Arbroath shipowner, he made his first voyage at the...

Economy at Geneva The British `Government has not handled its

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proposal for an inquiry into League of Nations expenditure very happily, though' it has the satisfaction of having gained the support of Panama and Germany (and apparently no...

Obscure Japan

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Japan, it seems, is to have a non-party government after all. The new Prime Minister—not Mr. Suzuki, head of the Seiyukai, or Baron Hiranuma, head of the Nationalist society...

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The Press as a whole is scrupulously studious to avoid

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bringing His Majesty's Judges into disrepute, but when His Majesty's Judges do that for themselves the self- discipline of the newspapers is of small avail. When Lord Justice...

The Buy and Sell Campaign The Buy British campaign is

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getting a little perplexing now that it is combined with what might indeed seem to be its natural complement, a Sell British campaign. This needs thinking out. We must buy...

International Gifts

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American generosity, manifested not so long ago in the constitution of the Pilgrim Trust for our benefit, is illustrated anew in the Rockefeller Trust's conditional offer of...

A Life for Five Shillings

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The one fact that matters about the Chinese flood situation and the relief work in progress is that five shillings subscribed now will keep alive a man or woman or child who...

An Interpreter of Ireland

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The death of Lady Gregory has removed from Ireland one of her most characteristic and important figures. Galway born, she spent her childhood in the midst of the country whose...

The Boy Scouts' Sisters Girl Guides and their auxiliary Brownies

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are now so ubiquitous and so thoroughly a part of the accepted order of youthful things that it is almost a surprise to be reminded by Lord Baden-Powell that they did not exist...

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The Condition of Europe

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IN an atmosphere of impotence, nervelessness and fatalism Europe is drifting helplessly towards even more stormy waters than threaten already to engulf it. Every day some new...

Parties, Persona l

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tes, and Policies • i T HE present House of Commons has now been in existence over six months ; it has carried through a great deal of work ; and it has become possible to form...

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How America Sees Herself

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BY S. K. RATCLIFFE. 91IIE11E are people who complain of the sameness 1. of the American scene. I have never found it possible to share their opinion, being, on the contrary,...

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December 1916 : A Question of History By H. WILSON

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HARMS. A S S the Spectator pointed out a week ago, Lord Beaver- brook's new volume on the political crisis in this country at the end of 1916 raises issues of the first im-...

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The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland

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BY THE REVEREND DR. ARCIIIBALD FLEMING. O N May 24th, the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland began its annual meetings. Not all readers of this journal, perhaps, are...

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Where Are We ?

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BY F. W. BAIN. M ATHEMATICS, a " Mesopotamian " word, meaning nothing but quantitative-calculation, is, like machinery, a good servant, but a bad master. And a recent...

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The Theatre in Scotland

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BY 113IES BRIDLE (Author of Tobias and the Angel, The Anatomist, &c.). rilHE only conclusion one can draw from the facts -I- and figures is that the population of Scotland is...

" Rags

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BY J. E. S. "/MANY middle-aged men will have. worked themselves -01 up into a vaguely reminiscent mood over the news that certain unknown Cambridge undergraduates have climbed...

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T111: NEW ORCHESTRA.

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So far three summer concerts have been given by the newly-formed Scottish Philharmonic Orchestra in Scottish Broadcasting House. Apart from the first concert, which struck me as...

EPSTEIN v. Mexcu.

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Last winter the Society of Scottish Artists invited Edvard Munch to send over some of his paintings to their exhibition in the R.S.A. Galleries. They discovered so much...

" Narioxaf. LIBRARY DOWNSTAIRS."

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Having found about the worst site in the Scottish capital for their new Library and formulated a suitably unenterprising library policy, our National Library Trustees have stuck...

The Theatre

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"Dangerous Corner." By J. B. Priestley. At the Lyric You five tcs after the curtain rises the dialogue is casual, dexterous, and trivial, creating just that sort of vacuum...

Scottish Letter

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SCOTLAND AND CANADA. English people seem to be a little taken aback at the vigorous spirit of independence displayed in the recent dispatch of a Scottish Trade Mission Ship to...

The Association for the Preservation of Rural Scotland has recently

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drawn criticism by its publication in the Press of designs for various types of small rural subsidy dwellings. These have been prepared by various untamed architects and are...

AND DRUM ES.

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influence is increasing. New concrete bridges are rising on the new Fort William—Inverness road, and the two that are now under construction, Invergarry and Oich Bridges,...

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A Hundred Years Ago

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A poor woman, near Eyreeourt, county Galway, was safely delivered, on Monday last, of four children, a non and three daughters, who are living and doing well. * s * * On...

The Tryst

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luely cam she in An' luely she lay doun I kent her be her caller lips An' her brcists one seta an roan'. A' that the nicht we spak nac word Nor sinder'd bane frac bane : A'...

Poetry

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Lady Gregory's Wake DEAR Lady Gregory is dead : Let Saints and Fairies make her lied. For her that made so many books The mourning servitors and cooks Will gather round the...

DIRECT subScribers who are changing their addresses are asked to

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notify the SPECTATOR office BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDAY or• EACH WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

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Yet some natives, as great hunters and, indeed, naturalists, as

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their ancestors, remain ; and it may be that the wireless will tend to increase their numbers. Such men' consciously glory in their district, in their island ; but they are...

Country Life

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EMPTY SCOTLAND. It is a strange effect of civilization that many of the loveliest places in the land go backwards rather than forwards, relapse to a more primitive state, and...

You might expect that in times of depression there might

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be a return to places where life is free and livelihood is earned by vigour of body and the skill of the hunter ; that there would be sonic return to the securing of such "...

A RESPONSIVE NIGHTINGALE.

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This week was chosen by the B.B.C. to broadcast the song of a nightingale. The birds have been in wonderful song ; and in one place at any rate they have given further evidence...

The mammals add as much to the change as the

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birds. The red deer, which abound and in the summer are singularly tame, repay close observation. The - faithfulness of the hind, her careful fondness for the young for as much...

Some of the islands (like Pevensey) are "fathoms deep in

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history." Colonsay is an Ithaca and one wonders whether its relics have been worthily investigated ; but perhaps the greater wonders are prehistoric ; and in one regard legible...

On the subject of vegetation there is evidence in support

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of a native fear that bracken is steadily and not very slowly invading a wide acreage. It is a fern of beauty ; but its presence is not good for man or beast. It destroys...

One of the passages in literature that has long delighted

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me is an account by Thoreau (in Walden, a book too much neglected) of the loon. Why have our writers said so little of this large and curious tribe of bird ? Within a day or two...

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THE 1916 CRISIS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In

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your note about Lord Bcaverbrook's book, Politicians and the War, you raise the question whether, in his interview with Mr. Asquith on the afternoon of Sunday, December 3rd,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your interesting review

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of " Politicians and the War " the following paragraph occurs : "Such a disaster—i.e., a Peace by negotiation (if, indeed, it would have been the disaster which we thought it...

THE IRISH OATH

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Mr. J. A. Eddison reads a good deal more into your Note on the Irish Oath than I imagined you to imply. I should certainly agree with him...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Sin,—Will you allow me to say that I think you are wholly right in your request for a juridical settlement of the dispute with the Irish Free State ? I feel sure that no one who...

Letters to the Editor

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[In view of the length of many of the letters which we receive, we would remind correspondents that we often cannot give space for long letters and that short ones are generally...

UNREST IN EUROPE

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is an error to assume that relations between Germany and France, as they are, were due to the fact that Germany wants Alsace-Lorraine...

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"WE CANNOT AFFORD , . "

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,-- When it is seriously suggested that we cannot afford to curtail the seventy hours' working week of our van boys, is it not time to...

THE COMMUNAL CLASH IN INDIA

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sim—The paragraph under the heading above in your news of the week, issue May 21st, leaves one aghast at its flippancy and cold bloodedness....

SUNDAY AND THE SABBATH

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. Arnold Hyde, asks for sonic principle to apply to Sunday and its observance. May I suggest that Sunday belongs to...

MIGRATION AND THE BIRTH RATE

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm—You usefully suggest that England would be better off with a population a million or so less, and you therefore rightly demur to the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] S1R,—How can the Governor-General

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of the Irish Free State, Who represents the King, sign the Oath Bill, if it happens to pass Dail and Senate Would not the Governor-General's assent be equivalent to the King's...

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[To the Editor of the Seim-mom] Sm.--The man that knocked

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me down and was the cause of my right leg being amputated behaved with the most admirable sang-froid. I mean that he was neither cold-blooded, nor did his blood run cold. He...

SUNDAY AT THE ZOO

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[To the Editor of the Spacmrcut.] might be inferred front your recent comment that only Fellows of the Zoological Society of London have access to the Zoo on Sundays. But this...

[To the Editor of the Seimr.vron.]

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Sta,—/)Lay I, while only having half Mr. Pardoe's years at the wheel but more than twice his total mileage, endorse every word he has written? Incidentally, I also have had...

THE TOLL OF THE ROADS

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[To the Editor of the Smer.vron.] Stn,—It is remarkable that a gentleman with so much motoring experience as Mr. J. H. Pardoe claims to possess should class " a cyclist without...

[To the Editor of the Sev.er.vron.]

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Sia,—I was much interested in the letter of a correspondent headed " Sunday and the Sabbath." The writer quotes Martin Luther's severe strictures on the mixing up of the two. I...

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"• WEEP NOT, DOROTHY!"

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[To the Editor of the SracraTos.] should be grateful if you would permit me to quote. for your readers, the correct text of a passage from the . epilogue to my book on Dorothy...

THE UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—May . be allowed to correct a slight misunderstanding of my text in your review of the above book, of slight impor- Unice on this side of...

THE NUMERAL-WORDS

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[To 'the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have been interested in your correspondents' letters commenting on the Numeral-Words; and find to my delight that some of the childish...

THE " COMMISSIONER OF POLICE ".

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[To the Editor of the . Sri:Crayon.] Sin,—" We are asked by the Commissioner of the Police to broadcast the following." Lord Brentford may for five years have conferred with a "...

TOPOGRAPHICAL 1NEXACTITUDES

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,--Surely the first essential in a " Travel " article is geographical accuracy, but your contributor of the article " Montserrat " is so...

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"Spectator" Competitions

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RULES AND CONDITIONS Entries must be typed or very clearly written on one side of the paper only. The name and address, or Pseudonym, of the competitor must be on each entry...

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The English Countryside

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The Open Air Year. (Times Publishing Co. 7s. 6d.) IT was a happy thought on the part of The Times Publishing Company to reprint in book form a selection of the admirable...

The Case-Hist ory of Byron

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Byron and the Need of Fatality. By Charles Du Boa Trans- lated 'by Ethel Colburn Mayne. (Putnam. 10s. Bd.) ONE might say that this book is a specialized study that could not...

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War Taxation and War's Aftermath

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The Financial Aftermath of War. By Sir Josiah Stamp. (Ernest Benn. Os.) WHEN he is not arranging a Reparations scheme, or organizing the working of the L.M.S. Railway, or...

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The Decline of Love

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Great Love Stories Of All Nations. Edited by Robert Lynd. (Harrap. 8s. 6d.) IN his excellent introduction to this collection of stories Mr. Robert Lynd finds it paradoxical...

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Sir Walter Scott

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Some Unpublished Letters of Sir Walter Scott. Compiled by J. Alexander Symington. (Blackwell. 10s. 6d.) MANY kinds of records keep alive the personality of Sir Walter Scott,...

Bath and Beau Nash

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Jr we go there with Miss Sitwell we shall indeed be well entertained. She will take us into the eighteenth century and introduce us to Beau Nash, by whose " very agreeable...

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Exploring Scotland

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The Glory of Scotland. By J. J. Bell. (Harrap. 7s. 6d.) WHILE England is smoothly celebrated as a green and pleasant land, Scotland's praise has been largely a matter of the...

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Alice in Wonderland

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Tim days of man's life are threescore years and ten—what are the days of the life of a book ? There is one book, at least, which will live much longer than that, for on July...

The Princess Charlotte

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The Ill-fated Princess. By G. J. Bonier. (Davies. Ss. Gd.) . 11A111.017E, only child of the Prince Regent, afterwards George IV, and Caroline of Brunswick, was indeed an...

Loch Lomond

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A Study in Angling Conditions. By Henry Lamond, F.S.A. Scot. (Glasgow: Jackson, Wylie and Co. 12a. lid.) As the population of this island increases it requires more and more...

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Fiction

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By L. A. G. STRONG. There and Back. By Ada Harrison. (Dent. 7s. 6d.) They Winter Abroad. By James Aston. (Chatto and Windus. 75. 6d.) There and Back is one of the most...

DOCTOR num. By Scobie Mackenzie. (Eyre and Spottis- woode. 7s.

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6d.)—An original and out-of-the-way story which tries to combine too many elements and does not quite come off. Mr. Mackenzie is clearly a man to watch.

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THE YOUNG FOLK'S SIR WALTER SCOTT By Patrick Braybrooke

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Those of us who love the Waverley Novels may admit that young readers are often chilled by the preliminary descriptions of scenery before they get to the story. Mr. Patrick...

Current Literature

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THE STATES OF EUROPE, 1815-1871 By R. B. Mowat -- European politics have a vital significance for us, but are not truly comprehensible without some knowledge of European...

THE BOOK OF AMBER By Dr. G. C. Williamson

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Amber, like jade, has its own votaries who delight in the beauty of the material. Primitive man cherished it just as modern woman does, and the prehistoric trade routes from the...

Travel

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The Road Round Scotland WHAT do they know of Scotland who only Oban know ? Tlirow in the Trossachs and Princes Street in Edinburgh, and that for too many is about all the...

THE MODERN SCOT

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What the Dublin Magazine is to Ireland the Modern Scot is in some degree to Scotland. Though without the unrivalled resources of the older review, it has enlisted a band of...

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A Fisherman goes North

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Tun first thrill is the arrival atone of those gloomy gateways to Paradise, St. Pancras, Easton or .King's Cross. Though you have been looking forward to your fishing holiday...

Scottish Steamer Services

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Visitors to Scotland to-day are able to make the journey by three direct steamer routes along the East Coast, landing at either Leith. Dundee or Aberdeen. It is also possible to...

Finance—Public & Private

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War Loan Conversion mentioned in the column of Financial Notes. - - WHY CONVERSION IS WANTED. It may be well to mention one or two of the obvious difficulties which beset the...

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Banking in Scotland

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Scorrisn Bankers have, I think, every reason to be well satisfied with the past year's results of banking North of the Tweed. In considering these results as a whole, it must...

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The Report for the past year of the Sun Insurance

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Office, notwithstanding the fact that in some departments net premiums were rather smaller, is a good one, and in the Fire Account where the net premiums of £2,454,739 were a...

Financial Notes

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IIA - mincos BANK. • AT the recent meeting of Hambros Bank, the Chairman, Mr. Olaf Hambro, made some interesting observations with regard to the general financial outlook, and...

LIVERPOOL AND LONDON AND GLOBE.

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I am glad to be able to congratulate the directors of file Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company on the fact that the latest accounts are decidedly satisfactory when...