realities, will drop the absurd cry that the Government wish " to destroy " the trade unions, and will apply the greater part of its energy to making reason and persuasion...

though ftstriets the power to Strike it does not mention lock- that it protects: blackteg,ts and make picketing lolost impossible ; that it refuses the legal right to raise...

1 111 House of Commons reassembled on Tuesday. It at once - became clear that the Budget was quite over-shadowed in the thoughts of members by the Trade Rims Bill. The Budget -...

to invite Labour to consultation belOre the Bin was drafted. It is notorious that within the trade unions there IS much dissatisfaction with the present despotic trade union...

aims at restoring to millions of trade unionists the right of private judgment. A leading article in the Timex recently put this very well when it said that if the clauses of...

London, MC. 2.-- A Sub-scrip/bit to the SPECTATOR Codim Mrty Shillings per aanvint; inth«ling postage, to any part of the vela The SPECTATOR is registered as ii Newspaper. The...

Chiang as the Cantonese Commander- in-Chief has ended in a comedy. When a delegate of Feng arrived at Hankow from Shansi he was arrested. A Reuter telegram says that the Hankow...

standstill. Some observers think the anti-Communist acts and declarations of Chiang Kai-shek arc merely intended t o deceive the Powers. That reading of events is not vcry...

unions, he promised Labour a charter. Last week the charter was published. It is embedded in a strangely interesting document consisting of thirty articles which describe the...

The Times correspondent says that the papers indicate a Soviet expenditure in China of about £2,000,000 during 1926 and 1927. Borodin receiven 14,000 gold dollars a month,...

the phrases—" a single trade or industry," and " intimi- dation." As the Bill stands, apparently no strike will he illegal, whatever its purpose, provided that it is con- fined...

enterprise, but the State will intervene at numerous points. The State will be the ultimate authority on all disputes about wages and employment. Although the State recognizes...

to 3s. in the The reduction was quite contrary to expectation, as the finances of the country do not seem to justify it. The Minister for Finance explained that on previous...

which have submerged more than seven million acres The Mississippi valley has never had such floods as those which have submerged more than seven million acres and threaten to...

new turn to American policy. President Coolidge, as We may judge from his latest statement, is disturbed by What he calls the misinterpretation of his principles. lie asks for...

relieving the financial crisis by' a banking m oratorium. This will last for at least three weeks. Financial stresses had . been preparing the way for a crisis for a long time,...

as committed on Tuesday, April 19th, at Limon, Avhere a passenger train to Mexico City was stopped by bandits. The large military escort in charge of the train was practically...

distinguished Evangelical clergymen who WIllollneed that they are ready in spite of their past misgivings to accept the Revised Prayer Book. They believe that peace can be...

in the last Egyptian Cabinet, formed a hew Government. He was evidently very reluctant to dothis,but his scruples were overborne by his predecessor, Adly Pasha, by King Fuad and...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 100 ; on Wednesday week 1021; a year ago 99 4. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 87; on Wednesday week...

F OR more than five weeks the Preparatory Com- mission for the Disarmament Conference has been sitting at Geneva, and it is difficult to know exactly how to appraise the...

Speech, and Mr. Eastman's Gift rIMIE ever-present question of the relations of the two chief sections of the English-speaking world has b e en much in our minds for three widely...

W ITII an eye to Whitsuntide and subsequent holiday seasons the successors of our Lords of the manor visited some of the commons during Easter in order to decide on defensive...

TROUBLE was expected from the outset when the I House reassembled on Tuesday after the Easter recess. The Labour members have been conducting a series of ferocious campaigns...

1.1, will agree that our young people ought to spend part of their leisure in playing organized games. fly time this past half-century that pious assertion would re commanded...

[We have asked the advice of a number of millers on the iiubject of this article, and are indebted to the firms who have so kindly an fully answered our enquiries. The replies...

THERE could be no doubt about it—it was he- ll William Clissold—alive—in Rome—watching the 11 march past of the Fascist Militia, dressed in a black shirt, lie was sitting only a...

[The writer is an American girl who experienced the recent earth- quakes in New Caledonia when on an unconventiOnal holiday with a friend in a tramp barque.--Ed. Spectator.] B...

Before going abroad or on their holidays readers are advised 101j14c 4 an order for the SPECTATOR. The journal will be forwarded to aaY address at the following rates :— One...

I To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, --A hundred years ago almost, a legacy was left to provide a suitable memorial to the Scottish national heroes, Wallace and Bruce. The...

The Royal Academy tfx the whole, the Royal Academy remains very inueh like itself, and the portraits of the King and Queen, which hold the places Of honour in the large room,...

" WILL BE READY FOR DELIVERY ON JILY 20h-u, 1927. Readers resident outside the British Islands and Libraries Overseas, are asked to inform Tut: tivErrAmit Office in advance as...

A quaint nesting site has been chosen by a pair of robins in my garden. On the lines of the—possible -L-proverb that "one man's ceiling is another man's - floor," the birds used...

The great Bridge controversy between the disciples 0 1 American and British ways has grown to such a pitch that a rough census of opinion is being taken among players in all...

The most beautiful flower, to my thinking, that I have secii this spring in any English garden is a wild flower, the l'asque lily. It may still be found wild in a good many...

Particular flowers come into fashion in very sudden bout q. owing as a rule to some new development in the bloom. This year the gladioli have been bought (as public sales as...

AN AGRICULTURAL HUB. It has been prophesied many times about the British Empire that its centre would one day shift across the Atlantic or even the Pacific, that the little...

LESSONS OF THE CENSUS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIIL—Y011 are surely wrong in suggesting, in your article under the above heading, that there was anything admirable in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—So much has been written by objectors to the Prayer Book Measure that I hope you will allow me to write in support of it. I write as a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIS,—I cannot understand why more argument is not addressed to the fundamental principle of the " Oxford " Bill, namely, decision by local...

new Prayer Book, on .thegrOunds stated by Lord Wolmer in your issue of April letlf, :appears - to me to extend the respect due to Episcopal authority beyond-its rightful limits,...

Dr. Dear - 1 . 11er ? The history of the " Ornaments Rubric " is as follows. The Rubric, which appears in the opening of the •Prayer Book, is an excerpt from the 25th Clause of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Silt, -I read with extreme delight the articleon "Time Art of Utairu„s--- High Health," by" C. A. E.," in which he describes he uses of...

{To the Editor of the Selicriwron.] you allow - me a word of explanation in reply to E. J. S.? - The depression that follows the taking of stimulants occurs in the early...

[To The Editor of the Seweeron.] The Scotsman is so fine a type of physical and mental fitness because he is bred on North Country oats, owing to the happy accident that only...

[To the Editor of The SeneT.ermej " 1). H.," in his pleasantly mordant article on lime above attributes " God tempers the wind to the shorn Iamb" to Sterne. Which, of course,...

misquotation from the Bible is "He who runs may read." Keble no doubt transposed the words on purpose, as he was referring to the Book of Nature, but the prophet Habakkuk wrote,...

substitution of corrugated iron for thatch, tiles, &c., on farm buildings is daily becoming more prevalent, and the invariable answer to any complaint one may make is, "Yes, it...

San Lazzaro IsLED in the silver-washing, Silent seas, Float San Lazzaro's Green cypresses. Rose-red the monastery burns Through olives grey, Rosy the oleander leans To the...

Your Bristol correspondent appears to regret that the hotels of that city "have not yet realized the possibilities of regular music and dance features." May they long co...

the SPECTATOR.] Snt,—Many people arc eager to make comparisons, but seem quite oblivious of the fact that there is absolutely no analogy between the two countries, Great...

SIR,—In your issue of March 12th I read with interest an article by Mr. Hamish Maclaren on "The House to Live After paying tribute to the many inventions which make...

Mr. Philip Sulky in The New Income Tax Guide (Nelson, 2s.), and in this vexed and vexing matter what a taxpayer needs to bring his national and neighbourly duty clearly before...

The New Prayer Book (Murray, 2s. 6d.) should be read by all English Christians and especially by those of the Church of England who doubt the wisdom of the changes proposed....

the "The English Library" (which we note is to contain The Memoirs of Letitia Pilkin g ton by our contributor, Miss Iris Barry) should consider it worth while to reprint...

Mr. Ernest Thesiger's autobiography is far better than the average volume of stage reminiscences. He calls it Practically True (Heinemann, 8s. 6d.) and infuses it with that...

Science and Human Progress (Allen and Unwin, 48. 6(1.) consists of the lectures delivered in 1926 by Sir Oliver Lodge for the Halley Stewart Trust. They merit and will un-...

Diniso the present month the books most in demand at tile Times Book Club have been :—Ficrrost. —The Old Countess, by Anne Douglas Sedgwick ; Elmer Gantry, by Sinclair Lewis;...

the British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers Association (36 Kingsway, 5s.) is a publication we would commend most heartily to everyone concerned in industry or finance. The...

nook of Negro Spirituals edited with an introduction by Mr. J. Johnson (Chapman and Hall, $3 50 cents) and Singing Soldiers, by Mr. J. J. Niles (Scribners. 10s. 6d.). Mr. Niles...

Tarn editor offers a prize of a for a list of the eight foremost poets of English literature and another list of the four best living poets. The competitor whose two lists come...

Napoleon. By Emil Ludwig. (Allen and Unwin. 21s.) THE man of destiny, the ear-pinching Napoleon of magnetic mien, has become a folk-myth in less than a century. He belongs to...

Edited with a Memoir by Bernard Holland. (Dent. 21s.) MR. CLAUDE MONTEHORE, writing in the Jacish Chronicie after Baron von Iliigel's death, spoke of him as "the great...

k. Its lengthy scenario of 528 closely printed pages resents a" multiple reel drama" of the best super-production YPe. Its short bustling paragraphs would make effective...

Bradstreet's Register. Adelaide House, King William Street, E.C. 4. l'i vi ponderous volumes consisting of considerably over 100,000 names of firms throughout the country, with...

An Admiral's Memories. By Rear-Admiral Sir Sydney M. Sin SYDNEY EARDLEY-WILMOVE " Memories " are of the nature of professional memoirs. He is concerned with the sea and naval...

WHEN the Yellow Book was appearing, Miss Evelyn Sharp was writing in it, and elsewhere, stories . about children and for children-- which children and others much appreciated...

(Knopf. is. 6d.) THE reprinting of Henry Chorley's Thirty Years' Musical Recollections, affords a good opportunity to study the methods and predilections of one of the...

Report of the Trade Barriers Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce for the League of Nations Economic Conference. (Constable. Is. 3d.) WHERE the League of Nations...

Poems. By Camilla Doyle. (Beini. 6s.) Poems. By Princess Bibesco. (Bonn. HS.) IT is hard to look upon Miss Doyle's poems from the standpoint of a critic, not simply because her...

Townsend Warner gives us the dictionary's interpretation of the word • "maggot," which is----" A whimsical or perverse fancy, a crotchet," and thereafter she proceeds to show...

Young Men in Love. By Michael Arlen. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d.) 'Tins promising title is deceptive, for the book is chiefly a serious satire on old Men without love, on the sinister...

letter written to Philip Queste by his runaway mother was responsible for most of his troubles. In it she said, "Your own mind's workings are the only realities." But Philip's...

Left Bank is, of course, the left bank of the River Seine. Mr. Ford Madox Ford describes it at some length in his preface : the authoress does not, but she has a great deal to...

Adela of Ger has a face like a horse ! " This opening sentence of Mr. Leslie Barringer's first novel has a rather special significance, for it shows that even a boy born in the...

Storjr, by the winner Of a 1/50 Prize No Compctition, - describes- the evolution-of-a-boy-Who wins It° w ay from. humble circumstances to a successful business ition John...

6d.)--Dennis Laidlaw is an anti-aircraft officer in Flanders during the Great War. Near to where lie is stationed he discovers, hiding at a farmhouse, his old college friend,...

of Stanbrook, in Suffolk, is a man in whom idealism is matched by strength of will. He has not been long in the village before he proceeds, by personal influence and public...

(Allen and I7nwin. aSs.)—With the growing popu- larity of the "electric hare" and the (we hope speedy) end of the cruel Sport of coursing, we may expect people to begin to...

II. Marriott, M.P. (Clarendon Press. 2 N , ols. 425.). :- Sir John Marriott lectured on history at Oxford long before he became. a busy legislator. His dual experience has...

VICTOR EMNFANUEL II AND THE UNION OF ITALY. By C. S. Forester. (Methuen. 10s. Od.)--There is no more dramatic story . than that of the liberation of - Italy from Hapsburgs and...

translated from the Italian by Alice de Rosen Jervis. (Dent. 7s. 6d.)—Del Iladia's edition of the apothecary's diary is well known to students of this fas- cinating period of...

Wolfe. (Benn. 10s. Od.)—There is nothing more lovely, in suitable setting, than a Persian carpet. indeed, given a chance, a couple of good rugs will by themselves almost furnish...

(d.)—We found this volume very dull. Its intentions arc eommendable, but to books about books there almost always clings a steneh of midnight oil. Further we disagree in Mr....

Rathbone, with a Foreword by the Rt. lion. T. I'. O'Connor. (II. Young, Liverpool. 2s. (hd.) - •- Biographies of the rich and influential are numerous ; this is the record of a...

6s.) 7 --Don Quixote tilting at. windmills was as othing to Mr. Meneken, the American author, denouncing merican democracy—and, incidentally, castigating less erfeet democracies...

21s.)- Mr. Roberts, an lustralian historian, has written a very remarkable book n the present condition and future prospects of the natives the Pacific islands. We have all...

16s.)--Mr. Warner is a Harvard rchaeologiit who was sent by his University in 1924 to study Buddhist. frescoes- in the cave chapels at • Tun Huang, dr the Turkestan :border,...

Needless to say, the 41 per cent. Bank Rate has givro decided impetus to gilt-edged securities, and the gencal hopefulness of markets has also been increased by a recognilh'n of...

A Fresh Opportunity *LAST week's reduction in the Bank Rate from 5 to 41 per cent. may be regarded as constituting a "fresh start" in the matter of the general financial and...

The 35 H.P. Excelsior SIMPLICITY in design and operation is, perhaps, the most outstanding featurein this BzIgian ear, which I tested recently. While the car is on thc large...

Three excellent Insurance dividends have been announced uring the past week. The Alliance is declaring a final dividend f 10s, per share, making 17s, per share less tax for the...

M last week's meeting of the Legal and General Assurance iety the Chairman was able to make a most excellent tement with, regard to the results for the past year and also 1...

Even in these days of satisfactory achievements by Insurance co mpanies, the financial statement of the London Life Association for the year 1926 is -a remarkable one. For 1924...

When allowance is made for the' fact that the average price if standard copper last year was £58 Os. 8d. per ton compared with nearly £62 in the preceding year and 197 125. 4d....

referred to the sound ns.ervative management of the Army and Navy Co-operative 'etY, and fresh justification of such reference -is afforded Y the fact that in spite of the...

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