prepared to include in the Bill a provision against a general lock-out. He did not think this was really necessary, as it would be far simpler for the Government to take over...

T HE second-reading debate on the Trade Unions Bill in the House of Commons has unquestionably im- proved the position of the Bill. This is due to the foolish and inexcusable...

the Bill, expounded it on Monday and rightly said that no ease for injustice could possibly be stated against its four main provisions. If Mr. Clynes had appreciated the true...

strike of last year it could not be pretended that to inscribe truisms in a declaratory statute was merely fussy. The Government were convinced that it was necessary to show...

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piece of reasoning. He accepted without demur the purpose of the Bill, but doubted whether its faulty definitions would be of any use. He would have preferred a one-clause Bill...

is •actiEdl■• incapable of making any atonement. To seize al, hold various points or to retake Hankow would be a break with the British policy of waiting to revise the Treaties...

repeated the threat of Mr. Ramsay Mac- Donald, that the next Labour Government would abolish • the Act whatever form it might have assumed. Captain Macmillan made an admirable...

to Mr. Mellon's misstatements in regard to the British debt to America. If an official reply to what was said in a domestic controversy is irregular the irregularity is...

Hankow indicate - a _change of front by the Communists, who now exhibit almost servile eagerness to conciliate foreigners. Anti-foreign posters are being torn down and their...

Mr. Wheatley and Mr. A. J. Cook made bitter attacks on the Labour members of the Committee. Miss - Bondfield, fortunately, was fully capable .. Of defending herself. She showed...

reveal much that is enlightening nr enter- taining about the subsidizing and controlling of Chinese Communism by Moscow. On Thursday, April 28th, twenty of the Communists who...

the House of Commons to the national Conference of Labour and trade union organizations which considered the Blanesburgh Report on Thursday, April 28th. This Report, which deals...

and has been succeeded by Sir Charles Madden. Last November Lord Beatty completed his term of seven years at the Admiralty and would have retired then had he not been specially...

of the Betting Tax seems to have been brought nearer by the action of the Jockey Club. Last week the committee which had been appointed to inquire into the Operation of the tax...

-like the present floods has ever been seen. Mr. Hoover, who is in charge of the relief opera- tions, has reported that 0,000,000 acres have been flooded, involving a population...

for the control of Italian subjects in the employment of foreign institutions. This Bill has caused much concern at the headquarters of the League of Nations, for it provides...

no encouragement when he questioned the Prime Minister about the late Sir Hugh Lane's pictures. Owing to a flaw in Sir Hugh Lane's will the pictures are in the possession of...

refusal to forbid the licensing of two- seater taxicabs, now that the fares of ordinary taxicabs have been reduced. There have been accusations and counter-accusations, but it...

was turned last Saturday by a huge majority as the It is a pleasure to record that Mr. John Buchan was turned last Saturday by a huge majority as the Unionist Member at the...

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

N O event since the War has been more encouraging or more significant than the meeting of the Inter- national Economic Conference which began at Geneva on Wednesday and will...

the second- reading debate on the Trade Unions Bill in the noose of Commons' might be excused for wondering whether the Labour Members arc conscious of possessing env political...

Unions Bill on Monday with a speech which cannot by any stretch of the imagination be described as a good one. It was delivered with slow and heavy emphasis, and it lasted for...

I T is often wise, but seldom amusing, to let sleeping dogs lie. That is perhaps why at the last Head- masters' Conference some members introduced a subject about which not a...

of stereoscopic and colour photo g raphy will g ive th the complete illusion of the visible reality in the cinema ; and a perfection of the phono-film will assuredly accom- pany...

hind parts like a poodle, the buffalo is a curious yet kin g ly creature. To him, the tourist of to-day must seem little different from the Cro-Ma g non cave-men who drew him so...

"A ND the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden." These words and their sequence have gripped human imagination through all the centuries, the beauty and profound interest...

[SECOND THOUGHTS ON THE ROYAL ACADEMY.] A SECOND visit to Burlington House left the impression that of all pictures in this year's exhibition none was likely to interest so...

A LETTER FROM JOILANNESBURG. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —South Africa is changing so rapidly and so experi- mentally that its rate of actual progress can be...

]" THE TRANSIT OF VENUS." BY H. M. HARWOOD. AT THE AMBASSADORS THEATRE. " ON APPROVAL." BY FREDERICK LONSDALE. AT THE FORTUNE THEATRE.] Two themes meet, without quite...

- [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Treaty between Holland and Belgium, which had been accepted by the Second Chamber of the States General, has been rejected by the...

Wayfarer's Thorn OF• all the trees, in every land, From Forest Flame to snowy pine, O I will keep, by heart and hand, The hawthorn and the blackthorn mine : Of all the trees...

Sonic very curious contrasts which may interest most amateur gardeners may be recorded of the really virulent succession of hard frosts that intrpduced the last week of April....

A good deal of excited feeling is being stirred, especially among ardent friends of the birds, by the new consolidating Bill on Bird Protection. On the whole, to my thinking, it...

pro- tection froM the frost. Almost all those enthusiasts who attempted to grow very early potatoes lost a very large percentage, as anyone who had self-sown roots in the garden...

WHERE VILLAGES EXCEL. At the edge of Hatfield Park, a place long famous for birds and flowers and much besides, was held last week, under the chairmanship of Lord Salisbury, a...

Now the real point is this : in every village exist people who possess the time, the freedom, the money, the apparatus and the knowledge to procure for their little community...

The interpretation, is that the sun does the damage even. more directly than the frost, though, of course, in association with it. Some years ago, a practical professor of...

Some account was given last week of a robin which used the roof of a wren's nest as the floor of its own. A few days after this was discovered in the garden, a clutch of robin's...

A SCOTTISH ARTISAN'S LETTER ON AMERICAN LABOUR CONDITIONS [To the Editor of the 'SPECTATOR.] • Sra, -- In reply to " H. C., " I give my opinion after several years experience...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia , -- As a citizen of New Zealand, a country that has always loyally supported the " Tiade within the Empire " policy, I Wis h to bring...

[To the Editor .of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Perhaps you will allow an ordinary member of the Church of England to break in with a few words ? I have often felt that the dispute...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] a recent issue of the Spectator I noticed a reference tif j .St. Mary's Parish Church, Finchley, which it is proposed to enlarge, as I...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia s —The article on the above begins , delightfully. The Church of England "embraces within one organic body Catholic, Liberal and...

Sta,—Catholics may be mistaken in their views about the Real Presence, but they have the consolation of knowing that they err in good company. No one* who reads 1 Corinthians...

Mr. , Steuart's letter in the Spectblor almost compel me to ask you fora little more space in which to make my position clearer. It seems so extra. ordinary that we...

Sm,—Your correspondent, Mr. P. Williams, calls attention to the fact that many public-houses in the country do not supply tea. May I ask whether your correspondent failed to...

Sin,--Your reviewer adds fresh distortions to his remarks on my book. He repeats his complaint (on the title) " Lord Olivier would have us believe that the merry, cheerful...

of the SPECTATOR.] Salvesen misunderstands the Oxford Bill when he says that it " does not attempt to introduce any reform of the existing system under which alcoholic liquors...

-MaY I endorse every word that Mr. P. Williams says about the country public-house ? I have just returned from a week's walking and motoring in North Wilts, and the memory of...

Sift,- -In your issue of the Spectator for April 23rd, your editorial footnote under the above heading contains a request for figures showing the milk consumption in different...

H." cites the last line of Lycidas as possibly providing the commonest example of misquotation. I think, however, that the two lines from -" The Ancient Mariner " are more...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your article on the above subject on the 23rd ult., there seems to be a veiled lament over the Census figures which are supposed to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Surely some of your readers must have been amazed to read in the motoring article by " C. A. R." that "within five and twenty miles of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The following claim is made by your contributor, F. Y.-B.," in his notice of my book, Aeolus ; or the Future of the Flying Machine : "...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The attention of the Council of the Society has been called to the hunting of a hind on March 28th last. After being hunted for several...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The misquoted phrase I come across far more frequently than any other is " In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread." " Face "...

Lister as I Knew Him, by Dr. J. R. Leeson (Balliere, Tindall and Cox, 8s: (3d.)-, is arresting, although ghastly reading for the modern reader. We closed the book feeling...

Gywer, 12s. 6d.) is frankly a disappointing book. The second para- graph gives hope of much of interest to follow :- " The whole of Italy joined in this great work of...

minster Abbey (Harrison, ls. 6d.) is more than a conden- sation of his excellent Westminster Abbey and Its Ancient Art already reviewed in these columns, but it displays the...

Books Illustrated, whose object is to encourage reading. It is well illustrated and well arranged under such headings as Travel, Sport, Fiction, Reminiscences, &e. We wish it...

the Turks showed a passionate attachment to their own country, now that their country has been freed, are flocking to America as fast as they can—so say Jan and Cora Gordon in...

Plays by William Archer (Constable. 10s.). The late William Archer, he tells us, Was incorruptible as a dramatic critic. " In his day there were two methods of amiable...

Canon Birmingham has a distinctive and delightful style as an essayist. It is his gift of ease and relaxation which make him pleasant to read, but there are many deeper...

Messrs. Gerald Howe send us in an attractive format sventy-five old English songs composed between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries. Many of these will be new to musical...

very interesting text of the sumptuous new volume of the Eumorfopoulos Collection published by Messrs. Bean (£1 `2 12s.) dealing with the wonderful Yiieh Shan Tung and Ching...

note to the selected works of each poet, the second series of the Augustan Books of English poetry (Benn, 6d. each), the first six numbers of which we have just received,...

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 nearest to the popular verdicts...

Sir Francis Drake. By.E. F. Benson. (Bcdley.Head. 12s. 6d.) Fa/LT.:cm DRAKE was " lowe of stature, of strong limbs, broad breasted, round headed, brown hayre, full bearded, his...

A Great Man's Friendship : Letters of the Duke of Wellington. " Tuts is the anniversary of the Battle of Rolica, the first that we fought in Portugal. I think . I shall send...

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Requiem. By Humbert Wolfe. (Benn. 6s. net.) THERE are two things which mark out the poems of Mr. Humbert Wolfe and give him an individual note among his contemporaries. The...

Hirst. (Richard Cobden-Sanderson. 7s. 6d.) MR. HIRST has written quite a good little tract on Free Trade. He is clearly a fanatic upon the subject, and puts his case with the...

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Mothers and Sons The Fiddler in Barly. By Robert Nathan. (Heinemann. M.) " FATHERS AND SONS is a historic title, but present-day fiction seems inclined to supply a new...

book is that while it is the i rk of a keen observer who uses his imagination and brings light to bear on . such comparatively unilluminated cts of bird life as the territory...

CHINA : THE FACTS. By Lieut.-Colonel P. T. Ethe (Berm. 12s. 6d.)—We can heartily commend Co Etherton's plain statement of facts about China. He the country and the people well....

6d.)—The heroine of this novel of South is Joan Butcher, an illegitimate child whose sensitive contrasts vividly with the prevailing sordidness of her en ment. Her step-father...

Finch, a nice young bachelor," is one of the richest men and worst painters New York. He meets casually in the street a beau girl, Molly Waddington, and determines to make her...

To be quite frank (yes, we are going to be cruel), Mrs. Williams- Ellis has written an unexciting although capable novel. About its capacity there can be no question ; taken in...

net.)-Brazil is larger than the United ites, but it has only thirty million inhabitants, mostly iterate, and vast areas of its surface are virtually unexplored. et it has...

Faglefield-Hull. (Dent and Sons. 10s. 6d. net.)-This is 'useful survey of achievements from the time when the over of musical composition began to appear to the present ay. The...

use of a book ? " asked Alice, " without ictures and without conversations ? " Here we have one should be of the greatest use to all lovers of literary 1p as well as to talkers,...

Wheeler-Bennett and F. E. Langer- lann. (London : Allen and Unwin. 10s. net.)-We can commend this book to those who study international Titles. It contains as appendices the...

with an Ifitraduction by Eileen Power. (Kegan Paul. 16s. net.)=No volume in the fine " History of Civilization " series Will be more warmly welcomed by serious readers than this...

Illustrated. (Macmillan. 21s.)-This is by far the most balanced book on the subject of the Russian Revolution that has yet appeared in English. It examines the Bolshevik regime...

HISTORY AND TRAVEL :-History of the 60th Division, 1914- 1918. By Col. P. II. Dalbiac. (Allen and Unwin. 21s.) Masters of War. By Neville D'Esterre. (Allen and Unwin. 8s. 6d.)...

An Important Conference IT may be doubted whether there are many Of our _ trialists and traders who recognize, how much greater and more disastrous might have been:the trade...

A SOUND INVESTMENT. HAVING very frequently been requested to give some occasional guidance in these columns to the investor with regard to individual securities, I am very...

The Stock Markets remain under the influence of 0 1Q1 Bank Rate and it is probable that high-class investenei l stocks would have advanced even further but for the flood of new...

The 33-180 H.P. Mercedes I. early motoring days the novelist frequently hastened romantic journeyings of his hero by making him use a Merced —a synonym then for speed and...

Not only, however, do these large capital issues and the prospect of further large flotations suggest an attitude of reserve with regard to the outlook for investment stocks,...

At the time of the reconstruction of Vickers, Limited, the view was expressed in these columns that the reorganization appeared to have been conceived on such sound and even...

The first report of Morris Motors (1926) Limited is an excel- lent one. It will be remembered that the company acquired the assets of the former company from Mr. W. R. Morris,...

With each year the value of that stupendous work, the Stock Exchange Official Intelligence, increases, and the reason is to be found not only in the importance of information...

LECTURES. Tuesday, May 10th. at 5.30 p.m.—Ass CAPITALISTS OVERPAID ? A debate between Sir Ernest Henn and Mr. James Max - ton, M.P. In the Great Hall, London School of...

E sale of Sir JaMes Murray's collection at Messrs. Christie's t Friday was even more successful than shrewd judges cted. Modern pictures are never a sure investment, yet se...