the House of Commons on Tuesday, when the whole situation was reviewed. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald blamed the Govern- thent for " inaction " and Mr. Lloyd George followed on the same...

in what form they would wish to have a fresh subsidy. Would they like to have it paid quickly so as to prevent all necessity for an im- mediate reduction in wages, or would they...

on a national minimum percentage of 25 per cent. on the 1914 rate instead of the present 33k per cent. No reductiOn would be made in subsistence wages which are at or below 45s....

out that his proposals were " flatly rejected " by both sides. The owners had not only refused his scheme but had asked the Government to stand aside and let the two parties to...

coal dispute are not visibly better than - when we wrote laSt week. The latest.prOposal has come from the owners, the idea being that they and the miners shMild meet for...

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war are to stop, but we do not look with great con. ; fidence to the immediate futureL-France and Spain will have many small but difficult questions to settle. There is a third...

their forces to expel Feng Yu-hsiang, the " Christian " general, from Peking, have not yet fallen out between themselves, but are expected to meet shortly near Peking and agree...

with the anxious outlook in Egypt. Ziwar Pasha still holds the office of Prime Minister, in spite of the overwhelming success of the Wafd party in the elections which we...

Poland, so much so that he has felt that he will lose nothing by haughtily refusing the Presidency to which the National Assembly elected him on May 31st, by a majority of 99...

George had waited in the hope of an agreement between the two sides, though to-day he was attacking the Government for following his example. Mr. Lloyd George had then said "...

May 27th. This means the end of fighting in Morocco on the scale of the last five years for Spain, of the last year for France. Though the various tribes are making their...

and his delegates of the Advisory Committee, Englishmen and Chinese, upon the Boxer Indemnity Fund, have done their work and made unanimous recom- mendations, namely, that the...

in 1912 and proceed with appropriate legislation. That course would be in itself an assuarance of good faith. Mr. Baldwin's mere promise is apparently not enough, though it...

the relations between employers and employed must be changed. The roots of the recent trouble lay far back in the Vic- torian Age, when unfair wages were paid and unjust' filbly...

issued a statement through the Central Ncws. They describe Soviet Russia as a society in which an individualistic peasantry exchanges goods with a Socialis- tic industrial...

May 27th, when troops in the North revolted under General Gomes da Costa, supported by would-be revolutionaries of last year. Lisbon remained quiet, and was deprived of news...

in succession, and it was the worst of the three. As fewer trains were running the downpour mercifully helped the police by reducing the crowds on the road. There might...

Liberal crisis. It seems that the split is complete. By his letter to Sir Godfrey Collins, published in the papers of Wednesday, Lord Oxford has made it impossible to retrace...

the Unionist Party. He says that Mr. Baldwin stands for all that he most desires in politics. We may add here that Mr. Hilton Young has been appointed by the Crown as a lay...

May 28th, Lord Grey of Fallodon made one of his rare and welcome speeches. Reviewing the history of the general strike he criticized the Government for originally refusing a...

the manner of Lord Oxford'S letter, Mr. Lloyd George may try to bring the dispute between himself and his chief to an issue. To-day M. Lloyd George might win, but a few days or...

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was DO Wednesday 1001 ; on Wednesday week 1001 ; a year ago 99*. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 871 ; on Wednesday...

THE LIBERAL CRISIS A N onlooker who knew nothing about the troubles and difficulties of the Liberal Party during the past few years would no doubt regard the present crisis in...

1V E do not say that the Egyptian situation is critical, but without question it is very difficult, and there are elements in it which cannot but give rise to grave anxieties....

-vv HEN the general strike was called off the Prime Minister's reputation was exalted to the heavens. He occupied a position such as had not been held by any Prime Minister for...

III.—FACTORIES AND A FARMING FORMULA A GROUP of men, who are dOing much for English farming and have their thoughts on the future, have arrived at a quite definite conclusion...

T HE efforts which have been made since the War the better to distribute the white population of the Empire have so far been lamentably unsuccessful. The results achieved under...

S OME men are born creators, with no streak of the slave in them, looking on life as an active adventure, ready to risk all for the faith that is in them. Mr. Ebenezer Howard,...

I T is generally believed that in idleness the miner indulges a passion for sporting contests. That may be so in some areas, but among the miners of North Ayrshire there is...

THE extremists among General Hertzog's followers may be satisfied with the result of the flag controversy in South Africa, but no one else can be. The Pact (Nationalist and...

West -India Conference, whose deliberations have • just closed, has not received as much attention in the London Press as it deserved. Never before have the British West...

and all travelling Britons owe it a debt of gratitude—a holiday on the Continent without it nowadays is difficult to imagine. It is to the present generation what Galignani's...

Com- missioner for New Zealand, who has just arrived in London to succeed Sir James Allen. Unlike Canada and the Irish Free State, the Dominion of New Zealand, according to Sir...

fashioned London hostelry popular with transatlantic visitors said to me, " I do not mind about running water in the rooms and other so-called improvements. What I enjoy over...

AUGUSTUS JOHN [TIIE NEw CHENTIL GALLERIES, CHELSEA.] MR. AUGUSTUS Jowl possesses more natural talent than any other painter in England. It might almost be said that he was...

being made to provide for American and other oversea visitors. An Irish friend sends me a copy of the Irish Tourist, which under good auspices is trying to attract more visitors...

of Health for the City of London has reported on the " damage and nuisance " caused by the four thousand pigeons in this town of ten million men and women. He says they cannot...

REALISM IN FLORAL STREET [" BRORENBROW,” BY ERNST TOILER. GATE THEATRE.] THIS stark tragedy of the German Social Revolution, admirably translated by Miss Vera Mendel, was...

BY SIDNEY HOWARD. ST. MARTIN'S THEATRE.] THERE were signs, early in this play, that we might be in for another of the now frequent, because still popular, mixtures of...

expectation had been aroused by accounts from New York of The Big Parade before that film actually appeared at the London Tivoli. It was reported to be deeply moving and...

COVENT GARDEN OPERA [THE THIRD PERFORMANCE OF " TRISTAN:1 Fon the third and last performance of Tristan of the present Covent Garden Season, Gertrud Kappel was the " Isolde."...

A LETTER FROM OXFORD [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—This has been indeed one of the most remarkable Summer Terms that Oxford has ever experienced. The first chilly...

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THE COAL STOPPAGE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—There is little chance of peace in the coal industry so long as the present representatives of owners and miners...

SIR,—The following extract from the current number of The Co-operative News is a sample of the effusions with which our " Nationalizers," of everything pamper and pander to...

. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the correspondence upon British trade with America " Manchester Exporter " has complained that American firms can repudiate their...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sea,—In your " News of the Week " you write, commenting on the controversy between Lord Oxford and Mr. Lloyd George :— " He has written...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--While overwhelmed with correspondence concerning, our Homecroft project, and compelled to ask for a line of your space to assure...

read with much interest your continued advocacy of the low-temperature carbonization of coal. Both here and in other countries experts have for years been doing everything to...

SIR, --In your issue of May 1st Miss Cam well expressed the attitude of many who desire to associate Christianity with political objects. May I be permitted to point out the...

SIR,—In your issue of May 29th, in an article by F. Yeats- Brown, Dr. Tahra Bey is referred to as a " Christian Scientist in excelsis." Dr. Tahra Bey is not a Christian...

SIR,—Though I am an American I am venturing to write a few lines to your paper on " Hating America." It seems to me a tragedy that the two most enlightened countries in the...

of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I was glad to read in Mr. Julian Huxley's letter (Spec- tator, May 22nd), that he considers the correlation of money- making ability with eugenic value...

is written these days describing the oppot. tunities for colonists in Australia and Africa that I am encouraged to extol the advantages of my own district, East Kootenay, B.C....

THE RECOVERY WHEN I walked out to-day, I bore a secret burden in my heart, A load of tired anxiety, the fruit Of false ambition, and the mad pursuit In which all men engage,...

the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Among the first and most helpless sufferers from the reverberations of the general strike are many of London's poor children. I appeal on behalf of the...

the Specrieroel Slit,—In the Authors' and Printers' Dictionary, by F. Howard Collins, it states under " Title Page " that such page should contain amongst other things " date...

in a circle when lost is not confined to adults. In 1900 at Cue, Murchiston, Western Australia, a picnic was given to the schoolchildren. Owing to exceptional rains the grass...

SIR,—For some years the Spectator has conducted an able and vigorous campaign with the object of getting the pollution of the atmosphere by unburnt coal smoke, discharged from...

THE strange world of the flitting birds I am afraid to know. The woodlands, with their leafy words, The rustlings to and fro, The furry inmates, swift and wise, All evade my...

THE New York Times.] • THE summary which the author, or the publishers, puts on the wrapper of this book tells us that the work is : " A survey of mankind which shows the...

Poetry at ls. each are Humbert Wolfe, Edith Sitwell, Alice Meynell, Thomas Campion, Lawrence Binyon and Bret Haste. Two hundred thousand copies of this series were sold in the...

M.R. AriBADE MINNIGERODE has written seven scintillating and informal biographies of Some Amerkan Ladies (Putnam, 15s.) —all except one the wives of Presidents. The article on...

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A Manual of Metallurgy (Chapman and Hall, 25s.), by Sir Robert Hadfield, demands more expert treatment than can be given here. The author starts with the birth of science,...

:1 Were France, by Mr. Gabriel Wells, published at the Garden City Press, New York. His proposal, briefly, is that the League of Nations should make a dispassionate revision of...

Van Loon tells the story of man's intellectual freedom in a simple—sometimes almost flippant—style. There is no doubt that the book will be widely read and do some good, for...

To-day and Yesterday, published at is. 2d. each, supply a need by providing us with good literature in pocket size. The last two volumes contain excerpts from the works of Mr....

Quite one of the most amusing books on the later Victorian Age is The Romantic '90's, by Mr. Richard Le Gallienne (Putnam. 10s. 6d.). There arc some droll and delightful stories...

The Editor offers a prize of £5 for a list of the seven greatest Victorians. Fob the purposes of the competition, we confine the word " Victorians ' to the British Empire....

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Mn. FOWLER is cruel—no doubt, only to be kind—to the inversions of the poor literary paragraphist, who, in a pathetic attempt at brightness, writes such stuff as this : "...

(Alberto Morano, Naples'. 1925.) VOLTAIRE has had two peaks to his fame, one of which collapsed with his death, the other of which the twentieth century is witnessing a gradual...

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is another specimen of the awful warnings against the future world war; but Mr. Shaw Desmond, although he ruthlessly wipes out European civilization, leaves hope for the Neiv...

_ and StOughtiii: 7e. 6d. net.)—It is decidedly amusing to try to disentangle the secrets of the dual authorship of this book. The ingenious reader will find few traces,...

clever and discerning novel provides in the dramatis personae a complete " cast ' of cosmopolitan Americans. -These are cleverly sketched, though of familiar types. We have, for...

Anne Parrish relates the history of a family, easily and with flashes of small beauty, denuded of the absolute truth of = Mr. 'Huxley's small pen pictures because more romantic,...

PiaLosormc BASHI OF HINDUISM. By PrbfeSSoir - Ridliikrisliniui. The first of a course of three 'public lectiiies - Under - the auspices Of the British Institute of Philosophic:...

SOME weeks ago, when the Stock Markets were affected by apprehensions of a coal strike, I explained that up to a point the firmness of high-class investment securities was...

Gallienne. (Putnam. 10s. 6d.)-The Story of the Jews. By Lewis Browne. (Cape. 7s. 6d.)-Rural Scotland during the War. (Oxford University Press. Its. 6d.) The India Of fi ce. By...

When once the coal stoppage is ended it must be hoped that we shall be at the end of our industrial troubles for a while and that our railways, as well as other industries, will...

In the Fire Account the net premium income for the past year amounted to 12,384,009 as against £2,329,000. The net losses paid and outstanding, however, were £1,118,000 as...

There is a distinctly better 'showing in the latest Annual Report of Crosse and Blackwell, the total income for the past year amounting to £143,337 against £50,333, while the...

• As I ventured to anticipate;the New Zealand Loan, although for the la* amount of £6;000 ,000, has pioYed it' great success and the reason deserved- emphasis - because of...

If, however, as an outcome of recent events, we should get peace in the industrial world for a prolonged period, railway stockholders will probably feel it has been worth paying...