of the National Union of Railwaymen not to handle coal from the colliery and railway sidings. Sir Erie Geddes, Minister of Transport, informed the House of Commons on Tuesday...

HE prospects of a settlement with the miners are considerably T better, when we write on Thursday, than they have been for some time past. The dispute seems to have narrowed...

May should be 3s. per shift, and that the subsequent reduction should depend upon economic conditions. The Government subsidy would in any case be limited to a definite amount,...

act as mediator in the question of reparations and to fix the sum to be paid by Germany to the Allied Powers." They promised to do whatever he thought fit to ask of them. The...

or even hours, the terrible fact will be evident that fewer miners will be employed after the strike than before it. You cannot destroy property and allow plant to rot away and...

miners. On Tuesday the miners agreed provisionally to a 2s. flat reduction in wages equivalent to £30,000,000 a year, and demanded thei the Exchequer should contribute the •...

the mines to flood was actually disapproved of by the Parliamentary Labour Party. But Mr. Clynes had laid it down that the duty of a Labour leader was not to act as an autocrat...

Readers experiencing difficulty in obtaining the " Spectator " regularly and promptly should become yearly subscribers. The yearly subscription, including Postage to any address...

reparation to President Harding. Germany would admit a total liability of £2,600,000,000, payable in annuities amounting in all to £10,000,000,000. Payment would be made mainly...

had, Mr. Chamberlain continued, been applied to the reduction of debt. On March 31st the Debt stood at £7,573,000,000, or £256,000,000 less than it was a year before—not...

the second reading of a Licensing Bill which represented to a large extent the views of the licensed trade. It would facilitate appeals against the decisions of the licensing...

his successor, Sir Robert Home, who is busy with the miners' strike. Despite the sudden and severe depression of trade last autumn., his estimates had, he said, proved nearly...

exceed £950,000,000. We should have next year to pay part at least of the £40,000,000 of annual interest on our American loan. Our expenditure in 1922-23 would, on the present...

of Commons on Tuesday accorded him its thanks for his distin- guished services during the past fifteen years. The Prime Minister in moving the resolution remarked that Mr....

at £974,023,000, including £345,000,000 for Debt services, and the ordinary expenditure at £1,058,150,000, including £632,000,000 from Inland Revenue and £323,000,000 from...

treaty with Colombia, closing the dispute about the Panama Canal which led in 1903 to the secession of Panama and to its recognition by President Roosevelt as an independent...

Speaker. Mr. McNeill and other members demurred to the action of the Government hi nominating Mr. Whitley, and then appointing his successor as Chairman of Committees, instead...

be most heartily congratulated on its fascinating, and in every sense distinguished, rendering of The II/itch of Edmonton at the Hammersmith Lyric on Sunday and Tuesday. But,...

Themes, who poor man 1 now gets bricks thrown at him from both sides: Still, it is impossible not to be amused by the following z- " Possums APPOINTMINT Ton J. H. T.—It is...

division last Saturday by a majority of 4,668. He polled 14,397 votes against 9,731 given to his Labour oppo- nent, Mr. Riley. At the General Election Mr. Kellaway polled 10,933...

usually with full comprehension ; the dresses were a feast to the eye, and the lines were well delivered. Miss Sybil Thorndike was interesting as the witch: she is too groat an...

may call legitimate Trade Unionism—expresses views to which we are often in strong opposition. On one point, however, we and the Democrat are in entire agreement--the madness...

the report that Lord Derby had gone in disguise to Ireland last week. He told a Liverpool. audience later in the day that he had changed his spectacles and called himself " Mr....

men of the merchant service, agreed last week to reduce wages by £2 10s. a month or 8s. 6d. a week, and to attempt to devise a scheme for regulating wages in future. As the high...

Saturday denounced the leaders of the railwaymen and transport workers - for " treacherously " abandoning the miners and " betraying " the " workers " by their refusal to go on...

28, 1921; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 88i; Thursday week, 88}; a year ago, 83k.

THE GUMMIDGES OF BRITAIN AND AMERICA. W E are a peculiar people, and so are the Americans. Both nations keep an appallingly large percentage of Mrs. Gummidges—people who chew...

H OW long are we going to be content to mutter and " haver " about " hidden hands," " unseen figures," " dark influences," and " foreign gold " behind our revo- lutionaries ?...

A READER of Mr. Chamberlain's Budget statement who had no previous information about the financial condition of the country would hardly learn from that statement what is the...

the memory of the present generation have attracted so much attention as did the trial and the appeal of. Archdeacon Wakeford. There was a good reason for this, and part of the...

A WELL-TO-DO Englishwoman of the conventional type emigrated lately to Canada. Desiring to set up a small household on more or less English lines, she inquired for a servant. A...

I THINK my advice to those who thought of con- verting a house to their needs would be that they should allow sufficiently for human frailty—realize that in practice, year in,...

THE CITY AND THE BUDGET. Cro THE Elinvoa or 7E2 "SPECHLTOR."i 3IE,—To judge from the abuse poured upon the Budget in some sections of the Press, the casual observer might...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read,and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] THE COAL DISPUTE. (To THE...

or letters submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do his best to return contributions in case of rejection. Poems should be addressed to the...

SPECTATOR.") SIR,—May I add to Mr. Angus Watson's five points a sixth?— that any attempt on the part of any trade to maintain high wages by limiting the number practising that...

[To THE EDITOR Or r= "SPECTATOR."] Sns,—The statement frequently made that Germany is under- taxed compared with the Allies, so far as it is honest, probably arises from basing...

THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Since the letter you were kind enough to publish last December, I have again been in Belgium, following our old horses from dock to death. That as many...

or THE " SFEcTrros."] am sorry that your correspondent Mr. C. K. Scott Moncrieff should have been so nettled by my reply as to leave his main line of attack for the less useful...

" SPECTATOR-"1 SIR, —At the request of the Duke of Northumberland we are approaching various patriotic organizations to ask if they can arrange for the distribution of a...

or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sea.,-Mr. Massingham's figures about the feather trade-which he ascribes to " the editorial director of the five most influen- tial trade papers in the...

(TO THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR.") Sfa,-In view of the opening of the Polish-Lithuanian Confer- ence at Brussels, perhaps you will grant me space for the following brief...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR.") Sia,-The Government's promise of licensing reform is now explicit. They are to abolish most of the restrictions. The King's Speech promised...

[TO THE EDITOR OD TES " SPECTATOR." Six,—As most of your readers evidently do not study astronomy, judging by the recent correspondence as to the moon lying o n her back, it...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, Your reviewer of my article on " Modern Painting " in the Edinburgh Review says : " He gives us to understand that painters have...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—At the Third Annual Conference of the Inter-University Jewish Federation held at Oriel College, Oxford, on August 3rd, 1920, it was...

" SPECTATOR."] Sra,—I should be grateful if you or your correspondents would suggest a suitable inscription, in English, to be engraved on a cross in a small country village in...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Tke letters from two American correspondents, Mr. George L. Fox and Mr. Walter S. Kupfer, which you print in your issue of March 26th...

[To ma EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sia,—Surely Mr. Lowther Clarke is right about the desirability of the S.P.C.K. publishing various points of view. But the distinction is...

THE AMERICAN ERA.* IT is specially interesting just now to read the writings of Ameri- can political thinkers, because we may learn from them the tendencies which are shaping...

MAY DAY.—A FRAGMENT. DAWN. THE air is scented with the summer flowers, Each twinkling star is dying fast ; and now The Eastern sky (where from her dewy couch Sweet...

SOME GALLF,RIES. Ma. WYNDHAM LEWIS is an artist who is very anxious to convert people to his point of view, and to this end makes the preface to the catalogue an important part...

name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the...

THE late Arthur Coleridge, who died in 1913, had played no great part in the public eye, but he was an accomplished man, with many friends, and his reminiscences,...

Mn. BADDELEY'S able book on Russia is like a voice from the past. The Russia that he knew well between 1879 and 1889 is dead and gone. It was not a well-governed country, but...

MISS • ALICE WOODS in her book Educational Experiments in England i has performed a very useful service, as has Mr. Ernest Young in his New Era in Education.' One of the great...

IT is remarkable that Saussure, who did so much to push open the doors of scientific knowledge and of mountain exploration, who occupied a distinguished position in European...

FBANIELY, Mr. Drinkwater'e Mary Stuart is to me a dis- appointment. In the first place, it is a one-act play; there is no room, therefore, for amplitude of character drawing, no...

Ix the first part of this important work a general review was made of the investigations which had been carried out in recent years as to the use of Testimonies, or Quotations...

IN spite of its somewhat sensational title, The Fringe of Immor- tality, Miss Monteith's book is not, and does not profess to be, an epoch-making work in the region of physical...

piled for the Economic Study Club by the Editor of Industrial Peace. (Simpkin, Marshall. es. net.)—This is a most useful counterblast to the revolutionary propaganda. It is...

and Blount. 8s. 6d. net.)—This is a readable and on the whole an impartial account of English institutions—the franchise, the local administration, the courts, Parliament, and...

THE OLD MAN'S YOUTH.* THE present writer is obliged to make the shameful oonfeesion that, not being an habitual novel reader, he was new to Mr. de Morgan's work. It is,...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] * A Gift of Napoleon. By Sir Lees Knowles. (Lane. 10s. 6d. net.)—The smallest incident in the life of...

of mind-training " whose owners charge four guineas for their course, has written a book (The Reconstruction of Mind ; Books, Ltd., 6s.) which purports to give the student very...

Edition by E. L. de Hart and R. L Simey. (Stevens ; Sweet and Maxwell. £5 net.)—The last edition of Arnould'a classic treatise appeared in 1914. Since then, many new points have...

resumed work with new vigour now that Palestine has been freed from the Turk, contains an excellent paper by Mr. Phythian-Adams on the history of Askalon and a brief account by...

Reed. (Arnold. 40e. net.)—This is a compact account of the geological character of each part of the British Empire overseas, including the manda- tory territories, but not...

net.) —Mr. Dale's lucid little treatise is intended to teach soldiers and other people how to read a map and to use it in practice. Many thousands of men during the late war...

agreeable rambling book made up of essays, accounts of walks, or of conversations. A pleasant holiday or bedside book.

and Unwin. 6s. net.)—Mr. Brailsford spent two months in Russia last autumn and stayed a fortnight in the small pro- vincial town of Vladimir. He says that he was not personally...

6d. net.)—Major Rayne, who is a district Commissioner in British Somaliland, has written an amusing description of his daily experiences at Zeila. He is not blind to the faults...

is a very able and interesting statement of the case for descent through the mother as the rule of primitive society. Mr. Hartland is a well-known exponent of the matriarchal...

scholarly editorship of Mr. Fitzroy Carrington, has now been transferred to London. The first number of the eighth volume is issued by Messrs. J. M. Dent (20s. a year), and the...

letters on The Revolutionary Movement in Great Britain (Grant Richards, Is.), which are informed by real knowledge and sympathy and deserve - attentive reading. Dr. Shadwell...

1921, edited by W. H. Dawson (G. Bell for the Universities Bureau of the British Empire, 15s. net), is a most useful work, summarizing the calendars of all universities at home,...