powers vested in them is, of course, open to question. In general our feeling is that the expectation of incitement to violence should be based on exceedingly strong evidence...

what it can. It is applying pressure to Mr. Cook. Tuesday its members were received by the Prime nister, and on Wednesday - they summoned Mr. Cook to London. A meeting with the...

vain attempt to convict the Home Secretary of trying to suppress freedom of speech. Mr. Cook, Mr. Herbert Smith and other of the miners' leaders had been prohibited from...

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conjunction with certain things said by Lord Birkenhead and Mr. Churchill. Lord Birkenhead declared in the House of Lords that the very fact that both owners and miners had been...

LTHOUGH the coal dispute is still at a deadlock, and when we write there is rio official movement o end it, there are stirrings and foelers. Opinion is eing tested ; kites are...

if only they were given a real opportunity instead of, as in the past, some vague, halting, or half- hearted suggestion that offered no hope of an agreement " inside the...

Wednesday, October 20th, show how severe it was. In the poor quarters of the town many of the houses are flimsily built, and it is said that more than 800 of them collapsed. The...

that the hundreds of members of Parliament show a complete freedom from such excesses as appear from time to time in any similar number of men in any part of the community. The...

troops who were advancing on Shanghai have been beaten back by Sun Chuang-fang, the Shangh a i War Lord. This success for Sun evidently disposes o f the immediate danger to...

that he has been making a remarkable impression upon the tribesmen in the Peshawar district. No previous Viceroy has undertaken such informal and unannounced visits in the rough...

Cunliffe-Lister, President of the Board of Trade, and Mr. Amery, Secretary for the Dominions , made introductory statements on the economic work of the Conference. Sir Philip...

moved to protest against the allegation of Dr. Salter, the Labour member for West Bermondsey, that members of Parliament were often the worse for drink. The debate which...

group in China. On the other hand, they have accepted for themselves what may be described as a kind of Soviet discipline. They have been freely fed with Russian money, and they...

and their patrons will contribute nothing to the State, beyond Income Tax on net profits, from an enormous and highly-organized business. We take some credit to ourselves for...

3} per cent. of the stake ; on the course or else- where it will be 2 per cent. Bookmakers are the quickest mental arithmeticians alive, and, directly or indirectly, this 2 per...

first three quarters consist of 91 days. The .tra, or 365th, day would be added to the fourth quitrter: artial Reform would divide the year into four equal carters of 91 days....

Mond recommending that the British Empire should be turned into a Free Trade area with a tariff barrier against the rest of the world. If anything came of the proposal to create...

Economic Committee. The Marketing Board was ow in a position' to translate into action the suggestions f the Committee. Mr. Amery hoped that the Conference ould consider whether...

heading " Country Life and Sport," which have been appearing in the Spectator every fortnight, have been much appreciated, and we are glad to be able to announce that in future...

inquire into reform of the Calendar has sued an interesting Report (Messrs. Constable and Co. s. 6d.). The original cause of the appointment of the ommittee was the conviction...

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 99.P r x.d.; on Wednesday week 1011 ; a year ago 102*, Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on, Wednesday 841 ; on...

the darkness of the coal dispute. - It is true that in the House of Commons on Monday the Prime .Minister said plainly that the Government_. had ex- hausted their attempts at...

T unwholesOMe excitements that emanate from Moscow are just now matched by sensation at their source. The deVotee.s'of destruction haire found a fruitful field after their own...

(Sir -Mired Mond, who has just returned from a tour of Canada, 'believes that the economic possibilities of the Empire should provide for all our needs.) rilHE future of the...

1.—The Disappearance of the Child The continuous decline of the birth-rate has been a subject of great controversy. What are the known facts about this decline, and the causes...

"LIVERY newspaper which has joined in the con- gratulations to Mr. C. P. Scott on his eightieth birthday, and on his fifty-five years' editorship of the Manchester Guardian, has...

" What's a Saint ? One whose breath The air cloth taint Before his death, A bundle of bones That fools adore When life is o'er." T HAT is what the devils said to Newman's "...

rr HosE who have never made a voyage in a submarine. often ask what it feels like to go down below the sea. This question may be answered by saying that diving quickly in a...

Mr. J. B. Atkins has resigned the editorship of the Spectator, but we are pleased to say that he will continue to contribute regularly to its columns. Mr. Evelyn Wrench, who...

past fortnight, to Henry V. Obviously the world after .1914 is not yet in the mood to revel, as our remote ancestors may have done, in this not - very dramatic, but eloquent...

of the most conspicuous in the notable calendar of scientists and inventors of our era, has just inaugurated a new and remarkable development in wireless, of far- reaching...

Matrimonial Misery [The Rat Trap.—By Noel Coward.—Everyman. henry V. —Old Vie.] By exhuming his early play, The Rat Trap, for production at the Everyman Theatre, Mr....

Films for the Empire THE British film situation, too long rather dejectedly admitted to be a sorry one, is taking on a new and healthier complexion. British films are few. They...

THERE was a fine courage in Mr. Jan Sineterlin's announce- ment that he would play the complete set (i.e., both books) of the Brahms Paganini Variations at the Wigmore Hall on...

A Letter from Rome [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Italy in the year 1926, or Anno IV. (of the Fascist regime) as it appears on national monuments, the chaotic condition of...

LIBERAL JUDAISM AND THE MODERN STATE . [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] . Sin,— I have•no desire to criticize in detail the article which Dr. Mattuck supplied to the...

Srit,---The article by Rabbi Mattuck, on " Liberal 'Judaism and the Modern State " contains various erroneous statements and implications that Call for comment, and correction....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —The recent industrial upheaval seems, above all, I call for an improved spirit between master and man. This will take tithe, but it is...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sift,--It probably will not be long before the Indian Church Measure comes before the National Church Assembly and Parliament. The English...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The letter of air. J. S. N. Roche appearing in the Spec- tator of 16th inst. suggests to me an incident, which occurred, I think, in the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-I am surprised that . in the various notices which have appeared with regard to Dr. Abbott no reference should have been made to a...

have overtaken me, it will suffice me if I can lift up my hands to God and say :—The helps that I received from Thee, to the intent that I might understand and follow Thy...

SIR,—Will you kindly allow me to correct a misprint, no doubt due to my illegible writing, in my letter on the above subject ? The Brown alluded to by M. N. should have been...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The gist of F. T. D.'s difficulty appears to lie in his question, " At what point in his upward development did man become immortal ? "...

readers who are interested in the speed and gait of the giraffe, which has been the subject of corres- pondence in your columns, will find an authoritative discussion of the...

invoke the powerful support of the Spectator in support of the newly constituted Pure Rivers Society, which held its first general meeting in London on Tuesday, October 5th ? It...

Elegiac MicrrAEr. and I were gathering Fir-cones at brisk September fall, Boiling and seething all above us The woodlands bellowed, squall on squall. The wind, like any buxom...

Middlesex) writes : " We have the amazing spectacle of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, and Mr. A. J. Cook applying methods to the country's undoing and using terms which ten years ago...

the SPECTATOR.] Sift,—In a review of my book, Birds of Marsh and Mere, appearing in Your issue of October 9th last, I am criticized for disregarding " the fact that the green...

by the Spectator.) [Next week we shall publish the eighth supplement to the SPECTATOR concluding this autobiography of the ex-German Emperor. The series, containing the most...

TO ctator No. 5,131.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1926. [0 R ATIS.

GREY is the earth, And the sky is grey : Is it the break Or the close of day ? From each curling bud And branch's tip, I hear the dew's Thin bell-like drip. Could April be...

SIR WILLIAIR ROBERTSON was the chief military adviser of His Majesty's Government during the Great War for a far longer period than any other officer. Of the five Generals who...

DR. BF:sANT says she proposes to prove in this little book that England found the Indian people free, prosperous and rich, and has reduced them to terrible poverty. In two...

volume, and he wins one's heart by wishing " that a much larger number of serious English people would make it an object to go to India at least once in their lives and-endea-...

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WE are perpetually ravaged and destroyed, in almost fabulous numbers, by the dread disease called tuberculosis, espe- cially in the form of consumption. The death-roll in the...

New Tales by Tolstoy Stories and Dramas. By Leo N. Tolstoy. Hitherto unpublished. (Dent. is. 6d. net.) HERE arc twelve odds and ends—plays, short:stories, a prose poem. Late...

4 Events and Embroideries. By E. V.. Lucas. (Methuen. The Return to the cabbage. . By Gerald Gould. (Methuen. These Diversions : Talking. By J. B. Priestley. (Jarrold. These...

MR. SADHEVEEELL Srrwii.r. holds it to be " more valuable to set forth your memories when you are twenty-five than after You have reached seventy-five." With the passing years...

Weekley, (Murray. -- 6s. Ix the daff4lien erudition= l!if the appearance of it had Social Value, a gentleman could have dined out for a week o Mr. Weekley's book. be very hard...

The Rubaiyat of W. H. Davies The Song of Love. By W. H. Davies. (Cape. 3s. 6d.) The Adventures of Johnny Walker, Tramp. By W. H. Davies. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) . THOSE people who...

Irish Doric in Song and Story. By Alfred Perceval Graves. (Fisher Unwin. 6s.) IT is surely a heartening sign when, out of a batch of eight volumes of verse, we can point to four...

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Mecca n a priest asked him what his God ate and wore : " Music as food and the colours of life his garment," was the cr. Mr. Puran Singh has written a very remarkable int of the...

of Modern Knowledge always command our rest and attention : they are wonderful value for a florin must do much good in spreading sound information. The st of the series is Dr....

to Pulpit (Jenkins, 16s.) that he began life in a circus, then became a sailor, cavalryman, prospector, cowboy, eeman, and finally a parson. " If I may give a word of ice to...

k about publishing comes from Mr. Stanley Unwin. He as an appendix a " typical Profit and Loss Account of a erately successful first novel," showing that the publisher lls....

(Knopf, 62.50e.) suggesting there should be not one League of Nations but several, is to say, a League for Europe, a League for America, ritish Empire League and an Asiatic...

in France (Black, 7s. 6d.) meets Julius Caesar at Vienna etating letters to one of his secretaries. ' Let me see ; re was ? I have come. • I 'am seeing. I am going to uer....

Charles S'herrington, is designed to meet the needs of the e numbeivi of 'wide-awake people who are - interested in ce, but have:,neither the time, nor Means tor/ piaster its...

The Editor offers a prize of £5 for a list of The Seven Wonders of the Modern World (20th Century). _EACH list should be of definite, concrete " Wonders. - It would not be...

TRAVEL :-Europe in the Looking Glass. By Robert Byron. (Routledge. Ss. 6d.) Sierra Leone in History and Tradition. By Capt. F. W. Butt-Thompson. (Witherby. 15s.) The Diamond...

Tin great Catholic saints form one of the most interesting examples in history of that which is now called sublimation : namely, the transference of the emotional drive which...

Kaiser Wilhelm if. 'By Emil Ludwig. Translated from the German by Ethel Colburn Mayne. (Putnams. 21s.) • " • ON1.1*S first thought in reading this book is : " How like...

The Political Principles of Some Prime Ministers of the Nineteenth Century.- Edited by F. -J. C. Hearnsliaw. (Macmillan. 12s.. 6d.) THE office of Prime Minister has always held...

Jesting Pilate : The Diary of a Journey. By Aldous Huxley. (Chatto and Windus. 16s.) A NEW kind of travel book seems to be emerging. They are " travel diaries " rather than...

iction THEIR TRADITION. By Guy Rawlence. (Constable. 7s. 6d. net.)—A Wiltshire country house is the point of focus of this pleasant but not very excitin g novel—it is the...

Thurston in his novel The GOO8er Feather Bid has chosen a theme well. fitted to his craft or " weaving the web desire to snare the bird delight." He describes the life of a...

The Informer was one of last year's most remarkable_ novels, admirable alike in its economy, its intensity, its vivid starkness and overwhelmin g sense of drama. All the merits...

THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE, by Rdmy de GOurmorft (Cataliova Society, El. Is.), and THE REPRODUC- TION OF LIFE ; by A. J. Cokkinis (Balliere, Tindall and Cox, 10s....

(Lon g man. 16s.)—Figures may be dull things, but theyappeal to the informed imagination, and here are some which bear on the slave trade. A conservative estimate puts the...

(Chapman and Hall. 7s. 6d.)—The title and authorship of this manual taken in conjunction suggest a famous. poem ; but the suggestion has no justification. Mr., Brown (who...

The Belgian Loan BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. BEFORE this article is in the reader's hands the prospectus of the sterling portion of the Belgian Loan will have appeared. Readers of...

Accessories at Olympia Tire fact that there are over 330 separate displays of accessories_ at Olympia this week emphasizes - to'. what dimensions the "gadget " business has...

A very successful year's working is shown in the latest Report of this company, resulting in a profit of £57,491, enabling an allocation of £19,765 to the Reserve, bringing it...

STEADY MARKETS. THERE has been more activity during recent weeks in fresh capital flotations than in existing securities. Many of the loans, of which Belgium is the chief...

The Government can be congratulated upon the result of the recent Treasury Bond conversion. Out of a line of £109,600,000 in 5 per cent. Treasury Bonds falling due for...

The market for . Rubber shAie's does not appear to have been very much elated by the publication of the Rubber Scheme regulation to be in force for the next . twelve months. For...