is the growing indignation of other wage-earners against the iers. This has been reflected in the discussions of e Miners' Federation with the General Council of the U.C., but...

thwart the General Council'S efforts. The speech which he made at Liverpool was quite impenitent. He spoke with nothing better than a mocking toleration of the attempts at...

Federation are moving fast towards- reason, and there is now a strong minority in the Federation which is recon- ciled to district arrangements for both wages and hours. It is...

to a delegate conference the proposals r a settlement which had been drafted by the . General uneil. In brief these proposals are for district agree- • ents in regard to both...

on Wednesday, was kinder to the miners than the transport workers had-been on Tuesday. Although a compulsory levy- was refused- it was decided to call for a voluntary levy of a...

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at Bologna last Sunday. He happily escaped unhurt. The assailant, a boy only fifteen years old named Zamboni, fired at Signor Mussolini as he left the University after opening a...

additional duty On foreign imports has no gone further and established an Inspection Bureau qui t. independent of the regular Customs Administration As the Peking correspondent...

York was published in the papers of Monday accom- panied by a long diary of the attempts of the Government to bring about an agreement between the owners and the miners. The...

for one-third of the Senate and for the whole House of Representatives. It would puzzle even an American to say what was the main issue of the electoral campaign. The difference...

_ a net gam' of seven seats. The new Senate will be corn posed of 49 Republicans, 46 Democrats and one Farme r Labourite. In the House of Representatives the Repub. licans still...

account of the so-called bombardment at Wanhsien. It will be remembered that at Geneva the Chinese representative denounced before the League the alleged barbarity of the...

is the denunciation of the Beli Treaty.. Belgium is invited by .the Peking Governm to conclude a new Treaty within the next six months The Chinese intention is to force Belgium...

for long 'stance non4top journeys airships Would . fie - required; wo airships to carry one hundred passengers each, and with a fuel capacity for four thousand miles, were now...

in the retail prices of petrol. This was the beginning of a war—war declared by the combine, consisting of eight large firms, on the smaller independent companies. The...

for the municipalities throughout the country are sadly inadequate. The organizations in London are good, but they cannot help the whole country, and their intervention is not...

were large Turkish and Bulgar ements, and the Government at Athens never knew hat would happen next in territories of such doubtful legiance. Now the scene is changed. The Turks...

of State for Air, addressed the Imperial Conference on r Communications. He pointed out that the Empire as in urgent need of improved communications, and hat to get them...

4 per cent. on December ard, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 991x.d.; on Wednesday week 99&x.d. ; a year ago 100x.d. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday...

of the League of Nations, contributed o the Times of Wednesday a deeply interesting account f the settlement of the Greek Refugees from Turkey. ter the disaster to the Greek...

Municipal Boroughs of England and Wales (outside London), one-third of whose members retire each year. Labour made remarkable gains, particularly in the North and the Midlands....

P RESSURE is being put upon the Government to deal with House of Lords reform as quickly as possible, and a very useful series of articles on the subject has appeared in the...

Monday. Its effect for the first few days has been to cause certain number of bookmakers and backers to I d aloof with a kind of puzzled hesitation. he abstaining bookmakers...

notify The SPECTATOR Office BEFORE MIDDAY ON MONDAY OF EACH WEEK. The - previous address to which the paper has been and receipt number should be quoted.

[The SPECTATOR—believing that the problem of putting the land to its best use is of primaty importance—has decided to open its colusnns to a full and frank discussion of the...

T ' largest decline in the birth-rate has been in the professional and leisured classes. The smallest =lilies are found among the most prosperous and Intellectual, and...

[Mr. fi ang Leang-Li, a Southern Chinese research student now in London, is closely in touch with the Nationalist Party of Chine We do not endorse his opinions, but give them as...

H OW far removed we are nowadays from the scientific scepticism of Huxley and Herbert Spencer ! They, or at least their less intelligent followers, sneered at religion, at...

(Mr. St. John Ervin is writing a series of articles for the SPEcreatit, The next will deal with " The Topography of Crime.") W HEN people begin to argue about the English Ia n...

T HERE is a great fascination in the wide spaces of Canada. In British Columbia, the Laurentian Highlands, the forests of New Brunswick, the Resti- gouche, the Miramachi, the...

Mr. Shaw's most earnest tracts, at the Coliseum. It has teen played also, this week, by the Macdona Players at the Chelsea Palace. No doubt the movement and bustle of the...

Does Ibsen " Date " ? ABOUT thirty years have passed since London audiences first saw Rosmersholm. We were then at the height of the Ibsen cult, as it was derisively named in...

[The Goupil Salon.—The Royal Water Colour Society.-- Mr. Ethelbert White's Water-Colcurs at the St. George's Gallery.] Tarn Goupil Salon is filled by works by the familiars of...

Mr. Ethelbert White has developed a personal style in which emphasis on pattern and pure pictorial aims have been combined with a real feeling for nature. His exhibition at the...

Old " Water Colour Society ; one looks for well-established traditions and accomplishment and is not disappointed. There are sleepy villages and dead towns, but even these keep...

A Letter from Dublin [To the Editor of the Seems:roe.] Snt,--The time has come when news from the Irish Free State may be good news. Last year we touched bottom in economic...

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IMMORTALITY AND EVOLUTION [To the Editor of the SPEcTAron.] Sin,—I think that most of us, who have given any serious attention to the matter, will agree with " F. T. D." that...

touches a real difficulty, and in the light of evolution the current belief that all human beings (but human beings alone) have " immortal souls " seems to need readjust- ment...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I desire to express my entire appro - val of Sir Alfred Mond's proposal for an " Imperial Zollverein." The notion of our joining a .United...

F. T. D." on the above subject takes me back to the 'sixties, when I. with thousands of my fellows was branded as an atheist for. accepting Darwin's theory of evolution. It is...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — If I were a deputy-overman, like my first critic in your issue of October 23rd, I too Would, piobablir . sometimes think the workers...

your issue of October 30th, says that at some moment lifeless matter became living. How does he know this ? Why should not, living matter, as other matter, be in the mass...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —I have read with great interest the article in the Spectator of September 25th, on " The Riddle of the Kaiser." The conclusion of the...

[To the Editor of the Sracrxron.] SIR,--I have read with interest Mr. A. G. Gardiner's article on 0 Anglo-American Friendship " in the October number of Foreign Affairs....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] They shall beat their swords into ploughshares " is to be inscribed on a War memorial in Plainfield, New Jersey, to be dedicated on Armistice...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Mr.J.S.N. Roche and " M.N.," who corrects him, have both got somewhat mixed among the John Browns. The author of Rab and His Friends was...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—With regard to the charges made, in the ex-Kaiser's memoirs, against the late Sir Morel! Mackenzie, it is interesting to recall that Sir...

[To the Editor of the Srzersron.] Srn,—Has it ever been authoritatively ascertained what the exact intended meaning was of " sillie " in the expression used ? There is a rather...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The publication of Mr. Kipling's poem, " The Vineyard," in his book, Debits . and Credits, has keenly wounded his friends in this country...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Yielding to the oft-repeated request of one of my friends that I should " write to the Spectator," I venture now to ask the kind...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] R. — Those who are grateful for the skill of Professor fermann Pagenstecher, of Wiesbaden, will be glad to know hat he is in good health, but...

.[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] IH.—After four years in Australia, where I am Rector of Illeannia, New South Wales, a parish as large as England, I ave returned to Great...

The Yellow Bittern "Deirin De, Deirin De ! Ta a» barman damn ag labhairt son Weal& Deirin De, Deirin- De ! " (Iam( Four Sm.) Tux yellow bittern flew into the bog, And sat him...

SIR,--A smiling piece of land, a beautiful, flat, loamy, gravelly piece of fruit-bearing soil, " of the best in Gloucestershire," lies on the left side of the road as you walk...

that Dr. Hertz, in trying to save yoi readers from a misconception, has himself fallen into it He seems greatly disturbed by my article on " Liberal Judaiai and the Modern...

By the EX-GERMAN EMPEROR (Full Copyright reserved by the Spectator.) [This week we publish the concluding instalment of this autobiography of the ex-German Emperor. The book...

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TILE present economic situation of this country is ad- mittedly unsatisfactory, and it requires, failing some radical change in national psychology, a super-optimist to take a...

WHAT has been the effect of the coal stoppage upon the banking industry ? What connexion may be traced between the banking figures and the trade depression ? Are bankers in a...

Are we Prepared ? IT is indicative of the optimism which is inherent—or should, be—in the temperament of business men that even in the midst of industrial depression there is a...

TEE man in the street is aware that he can insure against Fire, Burglary, Sickness, Accident and other usual risks a ppertaining to life and property, but comparatively few...

of Stulies to the Institute of Bankers.) To'transmute the bank clerk into 'a banker, the routine worker into the thinking and far-seeing bank chief, is mainly a 'task - for the...

'LOST of the anxieties of life arise from its uncertainties. The risks of the sea compass the mariner, trade risks meet the merchant and the personal risks of accident, sickness...

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Sea and Sussex, short extracts from Mr. Kipling with charm- ing pictures by . Mr. Mixwell, Would make a very . pleasant present (Macmillan. 15s.). Especially we like Mr....

the King's Royal Rifle Corps, by Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Butler (30s.). No one who has marched to the silver bugles of " The 80th " can fail to read this book without a thrill....

Persons of Quality" in praise of drinking (Heinemann. 21s.). The book appears to owe its inspiration from America, and has prefaces by Messrs.' Don Marquis and Christopher...

Ex-German Emperor, at 30s. Having already published a large part of this volume in our columns, we need not notice it now except to state that there is an excellent subject...

kr. Belloc Still Objects to Mr. Wells' History (Shead and Ward, is.), but we cannot feel any excitement at the news. The dexterity and wit of Mr. Belloc has his antagonist "...

Sava " are introduced to the public with an interesting preface by Sir Edmund Gosse. Benito Mussolini and George Robey arc among the best of his Twenty-Five Caricatures (Elkin...

Photographs of Famous Men and Fair • Women (t2 2s.) taken by Mrs. Cameron. Mrs. Cameron's father was an astonishing Anglo-Indian who drank himself to death and was consigned in...

spectacle of Mr. Lewis Melville's pleasant easy pen fllumin- ating some of the myriad facets of London life—high life, . low life, idle life (especially that), working life, but...

" Edina, high in heaven wan, Towered, templed, Metropoli- tan, Waited upon by hills " is one way in which you can think of Edinburgh, or you may imagine it as the scene of those...

In our review, " The Body," of October 30th, Scourges of To-day should have been attributed to Dr. E. T. Burke and ; Diseases _ of Animals to Dr. T. W. M. Cameron; Both books...

Loti, who told the French Academy in his inaugural address that he never read, and who yet wrote passages that contain the quintessence of domestic grief,' as in Tante Claire,...

of the saint are an intoxication, as is also the stupor of the drug habit, and that the jazz as an intoxicant comes somewhere between these two extremes. " The intoxicants that...

exist—Nugent's which is wholly negligible, Ros- eoe's which is pedantic, Addington Symonds' which is as much Symonds as Cellini, and now this one by Miss Anne Maedonnell, which...

7s. 6d., an illustrated edition Of Marco Polo, to which is added an introduction by Mr. John Masefield written in l907, we would add . that irrelevant and mean little pictures,...

" WHAT greater pleasure," says Burton . in his Anatomy of Melancholy, " can there be than to view these elaborate maps of Ortelius and Mercator, and to peruse those books of...

I. All entries must be received on or before Friday, Dec. 10th. 2. Competitors may send in as many entries as they wish, but each entry must be accompanied by one of the coupons...

The Editor offers a prize of £5 for an Essay in Prose or Verse on " The Character of an Ideal Friend." What are the essentials to be looked for in a true friend ? If you were...

REMINISCENCE AND BIOGRAPHY :-Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland. By Piaras Beaslai. Two Vols. (Harrap. 42s.)-Frank, Bishop of Zanzibar. By B. Maynard Smith....

Tug human speciei, says Clissold, is like an insect undergoing metamorphosis. Man used to live detached, or in separate communities, now - he is being gathered into one Society....

The Public Mind. By Norman Angel. (Noel Douglas. Is. Cd) IF a human being may profitably.indiet the human race the author of the Great Illusion has put together a second book...

A NEW realization is creeping over anthropologists. They are beginning to treat "primitive peoples" and their customs with some respect. Often, during the nineteenth century,...

Glaspell. (Bean. 15s.) 14E approached Miss Susan Glaspell's latest book with the maxi- mum of prejudice. It seemed to have nothing to recommend it. It was the publisher told us,...

Da. MOZLEY'S book grew out of a task assigned to him during the meetings of the Archbishops' Doctrinal Commission in 1024. It is an historical review of a doctrine stated, of...

Tins book is not - literature but technical discussion as useful as any ever ,published.. Specially valuable arc the papers on what may be called the new salmon fishing— either...

Bats in the Belfry. L. de Giberne Sieveking. (Routledge. 10s. 6d. net.) Further Nonsense. Lewis Carroll. Edited by Langford Reed. (T. Fisher Unwin. 7s. 6d.) Smoke Rings....

THE " gentleman that pays the rent " has become of late an aristocrat, a gentleman indeed. The woods of " feudal lords," once reserved for fox and pheasant, are equipped for his...

Basil Maine, wh se articles on musical matters will be known to readers or the Spectator, has collected together a number of essays in. a pleasing little volume entitled Receive...

MOST NOTORIOUS PIRATES. By Captain Charles Johnson. Edited by Arthur L. Hay- ward. With Reproductions of all the original engravings. (Routledge. 25s.)—It is like meeting an old...

University Press. 1 Is. WI-- The beginnings of the Tatler, Guardian and our godparent, Addison's and Steele's Spectator, are here described. We feel this little volume might...

Forum Series. (Watts and Co. ls.)—This book takes as authorities for most of its facts those given in its author's large work, The Origin and Develop- ment of the Moral Ideas....

THE GHOST BOOK. Compiled by Cynthia Asquith. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d.)—The connoisseur in ghost stories is generally an epicure who tastes and thrills, n " ghostronome." The present...

AmoNn other excellent papers in a very good number of the Fortnightly we would point to a spirited and romantic article on " Primo de Rivera and the New Spain," by Mr. Dudley...

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a lion in Africa). Cherry Kearton. (ArrOwsnaith. 5s.)--Mr . Kearton has written better than this little biography of a gallant companion ;but it is a wonderful story he tells ,...

10s: 6d. net.)—Here and there for some years now people have chuckled over old shabby copies of Mrs. Ross's novel, Delina Delaney, and a few over the less known Irene...

CREWE TRAIN. By Rose Macaulay. "(Collins.' 7s. 841. net.)—Miss Macaulay disarms criticism by permitting one of her: characters—who is in the publishing business—to assert that "...

packed with incident and sentiment, this new book by Edna Ferber-brings back the colourful past of the Southern States of America in the 'eighties and the 'nineties. The...

of Mrs. Deland's rather gentle stories of Old Chester, New England. Its hero, Arthur Kay, though inheriting his father's gallantry, is taught by his mother to love his enemies...

Doc HOMERS. On the subject of the homing instinct in dogs, of which a personal experience was given in this place, a notable episode is sent me by a correspondent from Ireland....

In the latest scientific view of water-divining—of the dowser's art—a quite definite sixth sense is attributed to some few men and women. The view seems to be that the forked...

net.)—Some much exaggerated but entertaining characters in this lively novel remind one that many who lead saintly lives are stumbling-blocks to the less godly, but more...

books .will undoubtedly survive, if only because they give a true picture of cultivated English society in the twentieth century. His characters vibrate with life and radiate...

net.)—Glimpses into the dark existence of the Jews in Lithuania last century. Sympathetically,- vividly and well- written in a way that explains much of the Jewish peculiarities...

The psychology or morality of that popular and most precious dog, the Alsatian, has been much canvassed of late, in the Times and elsewhere. Many of the charges brought against...

LECTURES. Wednesday, November 10th, at 4 p.m.—THE THEORY OF COLOUR AND ITS APPLICATION TO PAINTING. By Professor A. P. Laurie. The first of a - Berke of six daily lectures. At...

interests 0 1 the fox-hunter and game preserver (often the - same pers on ; is a closer study of the animal. The wise huntsman would do ,what Henry Chaplin did, and hunt down at...

Allowance must be made for the keeper's standard prejudice against foxes. Depredations are seldom perhaps quite so wholesale as is alleged. But this man spoke good natural...

In two parts of England with which I am familiar the usual feud between the game-keeper and the fox-hunter has taken on a certain extra vehemence. It has reached its pitch just...

A question that is agitating a good many dog-lovers is the effect of high-breeding or in-breeding on the mind and body and general health of particular breeds. " The Fancy " has...

Great industrial combines always evoke criticism on the grounds of monopoly and, therefore, it is not surprising that the notification during the past week of the big chemical...

When allowance is made for the effects of the disastrous ' coal stoppage, the accounts just published of Bolckow, Vaughan and Co. show some improvement on- those of a year ago....

BELGIUM LOAN SUCCESS. MARKE T hopefulness concerning a termination ere long of the coal stoppage has 'been mingled during the past week with concern as to the result of the...

Few Chairmen of our industrial concerns have received more striking tributes on the occasion of their resignation than those which were offered to Sir Charles Greenway when at...

ANTICIPATED ECONOMIES. The sponsors of the scheme have expressed the view that there is no case of over-capitalization and that the new figure is likely to be justified by the...

• I referred last week to the official announcement that on November 1st the standard production of rubber exports from our Empire territories was to be 80 per cent., making a...