Wednesday and when we write on Thursday it has not yet been decided whether the Executive of the Federation shall be instructed to accept the Government's offer or whether the...

W HEN the Miners' Delegate Conference met on Wed- nesday there was only one question before them which mattered. Should they or should they not accept the Government's offer of...

the week. When we wrote in our last number the miners had just produced proposals which were tentative but which showed a readiness for such concessions as would not have been...

been made by the miners a few months or even weeks ago, there would have been an immediate peace. Unfortunately, owing to the madness of Mr. Cook and Mr. Herbert Smith, the...

end Offered an apparatus of national revision which goes a 1 "g wail towards ineeting_their wishes. It is true that the wile*: 3chich Mr. Churchill lid . forward . dtiring2Mr....

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was that of Mr. Churchill, who in these last days has appeared in a conciliatory role, and has acted not only with zeal, but with much perception and resource. He threw a new...

the foreign debts. It was remarkable that he said noth . about the rapid stabilization of the franc. It will remembered that the Report of the Experts, which M. Poincare's...

Minister stated that General Yang Sen had restored one of the two steamers recently seized on the Yangtze and was apparently about to restore the other. Directly the second...

continued. Mr. Hartshorn made an interesting speech, full of information as his speeches generally are, but it failed to be practical because it referred mainly to the miners'...

Sunday at S. Germain and the other at Bar-le-Due on Monday, which are worth attention because they are the first public declarations made by any member of the new French...

correctly reported last Week he was guilty of a serious error of judgment in raising the question of War-guilt as an immediate sequel to Germany's entry into the League: What we...

Herr Stresemann may have said much less than was attributed to him. The Paris correspondent of the Manchester Guardian states that no notes were taken - of the speech at the...

more or less described in a brief letter which he sent to them on Friday, September 24th. The defect of the letter was that it omitted to mention that the only cause of the...

we publish this week of the ex-German Emperor's Autobiography is the assertion that Scotsmen have more humour than the English. This—need we say ?- is entirely contrary to the...

Mr. Ford's rate for piece-work will not be increased, the men will have to work rather harder during the five days in order to earn the same wages that they draw now. No doubt...

Saturday. Now that Germany is a member the League is much more firmly established—that is the central fact of the recent session. We must also refer to the proceedings at Geneva...

and an interesting, result of the Liberal- Progressive: alliance is that Mr. Robert Forke becomes Minister of Immigration. The Western farmers are naturally pleased at getting...

future only five days a week will be worked in his factories. Thus every wage-earner will have, two clear days' holiday a week, and Mr. Ford explains in his Shrewd way that this...

the Rev. H. R. L. Sheppard, the Vicar Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. When he came to Trafalgar Square twelve years ago he faced what . seemed to be an . impossible task. He wanted...

cent. On .December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) wag on -Wednesday 1011; on Wednesday week 101* ; a year ago 102 h. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 84 k; on...

A POLICY FOR CHINA A RECOIL into indifference or apathy is always most violent after the failure of a well-meant effort. We see such a reaction now among the Powers who are...

W E have very strong sympathy with the demand of the writer in a medical paper for a better and more systematic study of the physiology, and still more of the psychology, of...

with a further instalment of the ex-Kaiser's autobiography, in advance through your newsagent.

A N announcement was made in the Press last week that after next March no further advertisements of intoxicating liquors would appear in Punch. We warmly congratulate Punch on...

BY NEW MEMBER, T HERE was a large attendance of members when Parliament reassembled, on Monday, for the pia. pose of renewing the Emergency Regulations. The Prime Minister...

in the SPECTATOR of September 18th and 25th, 1926. Copies of these issues may be obtained from the SPECTATOR Office, 13 York Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C. 2, upon...

[.4 reader asked if the SPECTATOR would send a representative 0 the festa of St. Januarius at Naples and offered to pay his expenses. We consented, stipulating that the writer...

I N two articles published here last year I discussed the new theory and practice of the prevention of disease by the restoration of small quantities of iodine to our unnatural...

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I HAVE received from the Scottish National Memorial to David Livingstone a booklet telling of the efforts to purchase the house and surrounding grounds at Blantyre, near...

B IG white clouds lay tumbled over the crest of the Kentish Downs—like naked Titans sprawling in the blue. The light flashed from their limbs, and their shadows lay quiet on the...

A MIXED BAG r ARMS AND THE MAN."—By BERNARD SHAW.—EVERYMAN.] [" BLACRITIRDS : A COLOLTRED lizvuE.—Pavnaorn] • [" THE MIKADO'S " NEW CLOTHES.—PRINCE'S.] [MR. PLAYFAIR'S...

THE PROMENADES THERE was nothing to be done but to swoon at the Queen's Hall on September 23rd, and it was sad to watch the promenaders swaying to and fro, with no means of...

A LETTER FROM MANCHESTER [To the Editor of the Spzeraroa.1 SIR,—Really one ought to begin with Pericles and continue with allusions to Bacon and Sir Thomas More. Because...

• WORKERS AS PARTNERS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Eric G. Underwood in his letter criticizes my article in your issue of August 14th, in which I explained a...

[To the Editor of the Sri.crxroa.] s, —In your issue of September 17th you were good enough to draw attention to the booklet : Wanted, a Practical Solution to Britain's...

your paragraph, on page 403 of Sept. 18th issue, you ask what Councillor Munro (one of the Glasgow delegates at the Smoke Abatement Conference in Birmingham) referred to when he...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With reference to the article by Sir Robert Donald appearing in a recent issue of your journal, I have referred to several personal friends in Alsace, each of...

of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The recent Minorities Congress at Geneva was the occasion of a friendly discussion of the minorities problem which, it may be hoped, will bear fruit in...

of Mr. Arnold VVhittick in your issue of Sept. 18th perhaps the opinion of the distinguished archaeologist, the late Sir W. St. John Hope, may be of interest to your readers....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sus,—One point seems to have been overlooked by your correspondents, namely the legibility of inscriptions. In some Shropshire churchyards...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sna,—As you have admitted into the Spectator an article on Christian Science, the experiences of a clergyman of the Church of England in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I be allowed as an old friend and warm admirer of Mr. Vincent Massey to say something about him and his new appointment to the readers...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The following story may intere3t readers who collect curious coincidences. Possibly believers in telepathy may think that it has some...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of September 4th, Mr. H. A. Bryden states that these fantastic and beautiful animals can run on occasion "at a very high...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SM.—You have asked whether the Manx language has ceased to be used by the farmers and fishermen of the Island. For- tunately, the answer is in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — Lady Simon can put out of her mind any fear as to baking meat—or any other food—by gas being unwholesome. The question was investigated...

['To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—S0 many people have urged the necessity of" Buying British" to restore our finances to their once happy state, that it may come as a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] " It was in bluff King Harry's days, while yet he went to shrift, And long before he stamped and swore, and cut the Pope adrift." Ingoldsby...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I point out that apparently neither Burke nor Gladstone originated the phrase or epigram of "Peace with Honour " ? According to the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Mr. Marco Pallis has resorted to an obvious device in his letter to you on the above subject. He has fixed upon a gently ironic suggestion...

THE LAMB CRIMSON and gold, my brother Jan, The rarest green and the proudest blue, Here on the palette, my brother Jan, Is colour and colour spread for you, And the skilful...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I am hoping to publish a short biography of my husband, the late Prebendary Corfield. Many who knew him have promised to help me by...

_ LANDLORDS AND WEEDS. MR. ARTHUR Smrrn (The Holmes, Colborne) Writes :--- " In the Schedule to the Act of 1921 it is provided that the Minister of Agriculture on being...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The proposed Appeal Tribunal is being criticized on the ground that it cannot make the miners return to work, nor compel the owners to...

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has had no intention of producing a book. But, currente rota, a useful contribution to the county history of Kent and of Essex, has resulted in Miss Lilian Boys Behrens' Under...

which recently sent an aeroplane to Europe, sends us its special English Supplement, "Present Day Japan," consisting of 140 pages and a charming cover in colour depicting a...

For censure suits me to the letter "-but censure may hold its peace over A Rude -Book, by " Tell " (Palmer, 21s.), which illustrates pictorially and in mordant rhyme thirty of...

all through Mr. Leslie Henson's My Laugh Story (Hodder and Stoughton, 10s. 6d.) which will be appreciated by his many admirers and as was to be expected from the author there is...

essays in It Occurs to Me (Methuen, 8s. 6d.), about the colds Mr. E. V. Knox catches, the fowls he keeps, the oil gushers he does not invest in, and a film of Jonah which is...

need not review. Indeed, Working Days (Cape, 6s.), which Mrs. Pollock edits and to which Lord Buckmaster writes a foreword, reviews itself in its sub-title, which reveals it as...

Chiswick Press has issued for Messrs. Constable, at 81s. 6d., a new and superb edition of The Vicar of. Wakefield. Mr. .Saintsbmy writes an introduction, and the book contains...

WE would like to have from our readers a description of the worst faux pas they have ever made, and the Edito i offers two prizes of £5 each for the best letters of no more than...

HISTORY AND LITERATURE.-A Hundred Wonderful Years. By Mrs. C. S. Peel. (The Bodley Head. 15s.)-The Franciscans in England. By Edward Hutton. (Con- stable. 7s. 6d.)-Bygone Days...

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An interview with Signor Mussolini, by the special representative of the Spectator. Signor Mussolini expresses his views on British and Italian currency . . questions.

Mr. Beilac Objects to the Outline of History. (Watts and Co. is.) A (1 TRAIN, with which most of us have been familiar since our school days, interprets the world of parasites...

*Ilya of Living : Nature and Man: •Edited by J. Arthur Thom- son. "(Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. "6crnet.) University Press. 12s. 6d. net.) • • • . — WE are invited by Professor...

The Fire of Desert Folk. By F. Ossendowski. (Allen and Unwin. 16a.) THERE is perhaps a sense of diminuendo about Mr. Ossen- dowski's books of travel. Ile began with the...

AT first this part of Mr. Wells's three-decker novel seems to be sailing to no visible haven. There is no hand on the helm: the story' is caught in stays, purposeless, drifting,...

Rudolf Kircher. (Frankforter Drfickerei. 12s. 6d.) THE author of this shrewd and fascinating volume is the ndon correspondent of the Frankfurter Zeitung, which still one of the...

Gibbons. With an Introduction by F. €. Schiller. (Constable. 7s. 6d.)—This is the first of the se of books which will inevitably be published in this country Spengler's...

Shelley's Works. Vol. 9. Edited By Roger Ingpen and Walter Peck. (Bean. E3 3s. per vol.) Tins second volume of Mr. Ingpen's monumental edition of Shelley—Volume 9 of the...

HERE'S IRELAND: NEW TRAVELS WITH DONKEY. By Harold Speakman. (Arrowsmith. 15s. SKETCHES OF OLDEN DAYS IN NORTHERN IRELA. By the Rev. Hugh Forde. With Foreword by Sir Jo Craig,...

nothing in Miss Edna Ferber's twelve new stories of Chicago which can change the opinion previously expressed in these columns that one of her first novels, The Girls, which...

"human document "—the story of a very normal, rather likeable big schoolboy who is blinded by accident. He tries to adjust himself to calamity. His well-meaning, stupid...

refreshing in these days of psycho-analytical novels and bloodthirsty adventure stories to read this verY entertaining description of the life of a well-to-do, middle-agedi...

Hall. 7s. 6d. net.)—The late Mr. W. L. George's book stands midway between The Blue Lagoon and Orphan Island. Here again children are cast up on a desert island to grow up and...

E. Cuimington, M.A. (Routledge. 5s.)—This is a version containing many merits. The books are set in their order of date, with the exception of John, which goes With the Gospels,...

is a volume of much good material on ancient and modern symbolism ; but it has not been worked over into any satisfying form, and Miss Oldfield Howey is a little indiscriminate...

Maxwell tells a story at once so thread- bare, and so absolutely removed from truth to life, that it is difficult to sympathize or even be interested. His humble heroine loves...

FROM -MAN TO MAN. By Olive Schreiner. (Fisher Unwin. 75. (Id. net.)—The late Olive Schreiner was so well known as a pioneer among feminists, and one of great depth of emotion as...

Grayson. Revised Edition. 7s. 6d. net.) — After Nash's death the city. of Bath went into a decline. There were other Masters of Ceremonies who tried to rule it ; but none wore...

Waugh having said that the author is a story teller par excellence, we modestly express the same opinion. This book of short stories, told quietly and neatly, will come as a...

MR. CROSBIE GARSTIN contrives to get a truly romantic atmosphere into his new novel, The West Wind (Heinemann, 7s. 6d.), which is the last of a trilogy dealing with the Cornish...

PROBLEMS OF ROAD SAFETY ALTHOUGH the dangers of motoring are greatly exaggerated in the Press and in the Law Courts, it must be admitted that the figures which were recently...

THE TENDENCY IN SECURITIES BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. Wrrri the coal crisis at a stage which renders possible either an early settlement or a still further serious pro- longation of...

A small announcement made recently is not. I think, without its importance and significance. It was notified that the British Metal Corporation had acquired a share interest in...

Elsewhere I have dealt with the broad tendencies affecting securities over a lengthy period. Just now, however, there are the usual temporary influences to be reckoned with....

I often have to regret that space prevents my dealing more frequently and in detail with the financial Works which are submitted to me. One to which I would particularly refer...