THE FOE OF DISORDER, OR EUROPE'S POLYMATH Leibniz: The Monadology, and other Philosophical Writings. Translated, with Introduction and Notes, by Robert Latta. (Oxford...

AMERICA-N CHARACTERS Lives and Times: Four Informal American Biographies. By Meade Minnigerodc. (Putnam. 12s. 6d. net.) IN 1795, " Stephen Jumnel, Merchant," sailed into New...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR HOMECROFT SETTLE3MENT FUND [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SiRt-Though positively every sign on the horizon is big with encouragement for the projected...

PROHIBITION AND TIHE DRINK QUESTION [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-In his letter published in the Speeator of June 27th. Lord Dunmore refers to what Lord Plumer...

THE WEEK IN PARLIAMIENT By NEW MEMBER. THURSDAY night of last week was a memorable aT one in the annals of the House of Commons. The Unemployment Insurance Bill was under...

THE COAL CRISIS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Yet another surrender ! In Ireland, India and Egypt (and I half suspect also in the case of the Suffragettes), the...

Parliament will authorize the expenditure of ten millions. The cost of a subvention would be a small matter by itself, since the stoppage of work would have been inevitably...

Mr. Wood, the Minister of Agriculture, spoke on the vote for his department on Monday. Real progress is being made in milk production, in combating animal and plant disease,...

* * * * Workers who for good or bad reasons strike against an individual employer or moderate sized group of employers such as the " district," not only cause immediate...

The House of Commons last Friday gave a third reading to the Unemployment Insurance Bill, which is intended to restrict in some measure the distribution of the " dole " and to...

A subsidiary cause of the want of understanding seems to lie in the attempts to obliterate the " districts " in the coal-field as units. We believe that it is impossible to put...

We must hope that the Commission of Inquiry will produce suggestions of practical value, but none of them are likely to create an increased consumption of coal during the next...

LF oF sc pf Lack of space prevented our referring last wveek to the new estimates introduced by the President of the Board of Education in the House of Commons on July 23rd....

There have been certain features in this crisis that have scarcely been considered by the public. We could not discern on either side a genuine desire for peace or the...

But the most unsatisfactory point of all is that we see no guarantee that a subvention will make any genuine improvement in this industry. If it enables the owners to pay more...

The Punjab has been troubled by disturbances among the Sikhs ever since the seditious Ghadr propaganda was rife in India and America during the War. They became acute in a new...

Lord Cheylesmuore, who died last week after a motor accident on his way home from IBisley, was a notah!c example of those invaluable Englishmen who, not needing to earn a...

The tide of the fighting in Morocco has not yet turned in favour of France, and the campaigning season has now but little time left to run. On Saturday last we learnt the terms...

Mr. Justice Roiner gave judgment last week for a declaration that the dismissal upon marriage of a voman teacher in an elementary school was invalid. The question has agitated...

The evacuation of the Ruhr Valley by French troops and officials has proceeded satisfactorily. The last troops from Essen and Mfilheim left the area on July 31st. It is...

The powerful new Daventry station of the British Broad- casting Company has begun its career w ith success, and wireless enthusiasts over a wide area are already familiar with...

NORWOOD GROVE PRESERVATION SCHEME [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-In view of the interest you have always taken in attempts to provide open spaces and to preserve the...

DURHAM CASTLE. THE BISHOP'S LETTER OF APPEAL rTo the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-The appeal for Durham Castle which the Lord-Lieutenant of Durham has addressed to the public...

POETRY THE SEA Now that the wind has veered, And murmurs from the south, I feel, though far inland, The salt upon my mouth. I see the foam, the surge, Moon-harried to the...

RUBBER. So far as the more speculative departments are concerned, tot the least interesting feature of the past month has been the important pronouncement by the Colonial...

A RETIREEMENT-AN-D AN APPOINITMEN-T. There are probably few bankers whose authority on all matters relating to international banking and foreign exchange is greater than Sir...

B WREERY PROFITS. WNThatever other industry may give inadequate results to its shareholders, the brewery trade-so far. at all events, as some of the leading companies are...

w w U w FACTS AND FIGURES. As I have explained in some previous notes in the Spectator, those who protest against the restriction of rubber output base their arguments too...

As Lord Grey of Fallodon )oinlted out in a clear and sober speech on Monday, the action of the Unions became, as it has been in other so-called sympathetic scrikes or movements...

There was certainly a feeling of relief when the country learnt that there was not to be an immediate stop))age of work in the mines, or of the transport of coal on the...

* On Friday, the 31st, the Treasury issued a statement I ,in some detail. It announced that the Government ( would give a subvention in aid of wages from August 1st to May...

NEWS OF THE WEEK THE crisis in the coal industry and its extensions Twere at their height when we went to press last week. - Late on Thursday, July 30th, the Prime Minister's...

LIGHT FROM WIND POWER [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,--Some years ago an engineer of considerable repute Canadian, if my memory serves-proposed a scheme for using the...

MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR THE MIDDLE CLASSES - rTo the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,-I have read with interest the letter by 'M. L." published in your issue of the 25th ult., on...

POLISHED RICE rTo the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-I congratulate Mr. Harold H. Roberts on his letter dealing with polished rice and beri-beri, which appeared in your issue...

THE HIGH COST OF BABIES [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--While wholeheartedly agreeing with Miss Hetty Scott's appeal for greater knowledgeableness on the part of...

FINANCE-PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BRITAIN'S INDUSTRIAL PROBLEMS BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. RIGHTLY or wrongly, the Government decided last week to secure a continuance of coal output by...

Jacob Ussher. By Naomi Jacob. (Thornton Butterworth. 7s. 6d. net.)-The WNhitechapel beginnings ot this story or a Jewish millionaire are extremely well described, but the...

Strange Wheat. By Thora Stowell. (Leonard Parsons. 7s. 6d. net.)-This is a semi-political novel dealing with the post-War years of the British occupation in Egypt. The story...

The Law Road. By Isabella Holt. (Macmillan. 7s. 6d. net.) - _ -s -, -A very clever American story, giving a picture ot a set 01 young people nicknamed " The Old Crowd," and of...

Paid With Thanks. By Ian Hay. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d. net.)-Ian Hay is always goon wnen ne is describing real events attractively dressed as fiction. This quality of...

Humming BIrd. By Mrs. Alfred Sidgwickc. (Collins. 1 :_T41_, 7s. 6d. net.)-In setting the scene or ner new novel in ilaliy instead of Germany Mrs. Sidgwick shows herself truly...

AUSTRALIAN BIRDS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR.-'fr. Ogilvie writes from long experience of Australian birds. M3y total acquaintance is covered by a fivc months' stay...

HORNETS [To the Editor of the SPECTAVTOR.] Sin,-A correspondent in your issue of July 25th pleads ignorance of the difference between a horxict and a wasp. It is impossible to...

THE WARS OF THE BIRDS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--Although a good deal of bird-nesting and killing or taking of small birds goes on in this country, it is not...

MEMORIES OF AN' OLD READER OF THE "SPECTATOR" rTo the Editor of the SPECTATOnR. SIR,-One of my most cherished privileges has been to sit at the lunch table of the Century Club,...

A HOMERIC DEFENCE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.1 SIR,-The moving incident recorded in the Spectator of July 25th sounds like an echlo of the test applied to a criminal in...

HOW TO ABOLISH THE DOLE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIn,-Endeavour to discount it how we may, the great increase in unemployment which is shown by the latest returns of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-I shall be greatly obliged if you will permit me to make one submission with reference to the letter of F.M. Lord Plumer, and to your own...

SMAI L, BUT COSTLY Selected Poems. Austin Dobson. (Oxford University Press.) TIlE time for an Austin Dobson revival is at hand. We have progressively discarded rhyme, rhythm,...

PA G AN S On the Trail of the Bushongo. By E. Torday. (Seeloy Serviee. 2 1s.) The Vanishing Tribes of Kenya. By Major Ordo Browno. (Seeley Service. 21s. net.) Kenya. By...

U-NDERCLIFFS THOSE long wild gardens which shelter themselves 1 beneath English cliffs, created by the convulsions of half-forgotten landslips and seeming from the extravagance...

AUGUST LASSITUDE. Of course, we are now at the period of the year when prices not infrequently droop through sheer lack of active support from the public during the holiday...

FINANCIAL NOTES THE MTARKET OUTLOOK. WRITING on the first morning after the short Holiday, it is impossible to determine what may be the precise effect of the coal truce upon...

Alaska, An Empire in the Making, by John J. Underwood (Bodley Head), is an interesting book written by a man with an intimate knowledge of the country. We read of gold-rushes...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS AireR the absurdities which have been delivered recently in America it is greatly refreshing and reassuring to come across the volume Messrs. Blackie have...

Sir J. J. Thomson's Fison Memorial Lecture on The Structure of Light (Cambridge University Press) is something of a revolution in physical theory: he attempts, in part, to...

Messrs. Constable send us a two-volume edition of The Life of Thomas Holcroft (1745-1809). Byron wrote to Murray: " Holcroft's Memoirs are valuable as showing strength and...

A PHILOSOPHER ON CURRENCY AND CREDIT 1. f HAVE often thought that we do not make enough L use of our philosophers, metaphysicians and logicians. I mean by this catalogue the...

GOITRE AND CANCER . "The recent important discoveries in cancer research do not in any Way detract from the significance of the following article. Rather they lend point to...

CURRENT LITERATURE THE INWARDNESS OF UNEMPLOYMENT. By Gabriel Wells. (Elkin Mathews. Is. net.) MR. GABRIEL WELLS, who has so generously offered the prize of £100 (which we...

EXHIBITIONS AND THE ARTS OF DISPLAY. By Sir Lawrence Weaver. (Country Life, Ltd. 30s. net.) FRosi his experience as Director of British exhibits at the Empire Exhibition, Sir...

FICTION THREE ADVENTURE NOVELS John Macnab. By John Buchan. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d. net.) Youth Rides West. By Will Irwin. (.Jonathan Cape. 7s. 6d. net.) Stolen...

A HISTORY OF ENGLAND. By Hilaire Belloc. -1T I T- -o_1_ __ lt_ _ L Four X(lid, V o0. i. (metnluen. i as. net.) MR. BELLOC'S point of departure is familiar-the belief that the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-With reference to the excellent article on humant slaughtering, published in the Spectator of June 27th, I venture to suggest that it...

THE HUMANE SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-In your article of June 27th the author's plea is to substitute more " humane " methods of slaughter for...

NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYED [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-I am sure that you will welcome the announcement, that the National Alliance and the...

A VOLUNTARY FUND FOR OUR PRESENT DISTRESS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.1 SIR,-The idea of a voluntary fund for our present distress referred to by your Caracas correspondent...

ECONOMICS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.1 SIR,-The general ignorance of our population, described by Mr. Angell, about the working of the economic and...

MARINE INSURANCE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-The article in your Banking and Insurance Supplement of July 25th hits the mark in every paragraph; some of the shots...

LABOUR PROBLEMS IN IRELAND FROM AN IRISH CORRESPONDENT. THE industrial situation in Ireland deserves careful T attention, not merely for Ireland's.sake, but because...

THE MAGAZINES SIR FREDERICK LUGARD'S theories of education for the African native are very interesting and very practical. I-Ie develops them in the new number of the Edinburgh...

TOPICS OF THE DAY THE MIINES AND THE SETTLEMENT OTHING could be more unfair than the strictures N which have been passed upon Mr. Baldwin during the week by a large number of...

A NEGLECTED CENTENARY By A. J. HARROP. [Our contributor has reminded us in the following article of something which, we confess, we had forgotten. Of course we were well aware...

BOOKS OF THE MOMENT MARY HAMILTON AND CLARISSA TRANT [COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York Times.] Mary Hamilton. At Court and at Home. Edited by...

BRITISH AND AMERICAN CITIES COMPARED A VERY interesting report by the architect to the London County Council has lately been published entitled " The Construction and Control...

TWO REVOLUTIONS: A COMPARISON BY LIEUT.-COLONEL C. B. THACKERAY, D.S.O. Fourth Servant: " My faith, I think I'll turn Englishman in my older years, where there's not these...

FUEL ECONOMY By DAVID BROWNLIE. THE serious crisis in the colliery, the iron and steel T and the shipbuilding industries, with the consequent heavy drop in railway revenues,...