... PICTOREAL POLITICS. Mr. Asquith's Return. The volume of enthusiasm which greeted Mr. Asquith's return to the House of Commons last week sur prised even the small but loyal following of that able gentleman. But the reason is not in truth far to seek. The community as a whole trusts Mr. Asquith, trusts his mental balance, his judgment, and above all, his moral and political probity. Mr. ...

... . A well studed page from our artist's sketch book, which includes a number of celebrated sportsmen. Lord Wavertree wao formerly Colonel Hall-Walker, who temporarily adopted the title of Lord Osmaston CARICATURED BY FRED MAY ...

... PICTORIAL POLITICS. Reason Rules. HP here were some very illuminating speeches at the extraordinary general meeting of the Trades' Union Congress, which took place last week, on the issue of direct action as opposed to political action, but the palm for putting the whole case against the former in a nutshell must go to Mr. Clynes, who said: You declare a general strike, and he (the Prime ...

... PICTORIAL POLITICS. Publicity, Please. A gain the country is threatened by the appalling menace of a coal strike. The claim of the miners of an increase of 3s. per day in wages has been refused by the Government, and the Government's offer of Is. 6d. per day rejected by the delegates of the Miners' Federation. The issue is now in front of the men for balloting purposes, and if two-thirds of ...

... THE GLOW-WORM i THE TROUT SOME wonderful entomological revelations come into The Glow-worm and Other Beetles, the latest Fabre volume Mr. De Mattos has translated for Hodder and Stoughton. (The lan ...

... THE GLOW-WORM i THE TROUT SOME wonderful entomological revelations come into The Glow-worm and Other Beetles, the latest Fabre volume Mr. De Mattos has translated for Hodder and Stoughton. (The lan ...

... . Snort Reviving:. t ngland certainly paused in the midst of her toil of self- -L-' reconstruction last week to watch with intense interest the result of three of the most interesting competitions in her national sports. At golf the amazing Duncan, not withstanding a bad start, carried all before him, and foreign competitors were practically nowhere. At Wimbledon, alas, Mrs. Lambert Chambers ...

... PICTORIAL POLITICS. Independence Day. GThe 144th anniversary of America's Independence Day yet once more served to emphasise a fact which, perhaps, has never needed any illustration namely, that honourable foes, who have met and fought hard, can be good friends. The American War of Independence left no rancours behind it the revanche for Waterloo was likewise an amiable myth. In both cases the ...

... PICTORIAL POLITICS. East is West. 1 he solution of the sorely perplexing problem of world peace, for which everv nation is hungering, would hardly seem to be in sight, for from the Niemen to the far-distant empire of China the world is still being shaken by the convulsions of the late upheaval. After every earthquake there are recurrent tremors, and also not infrequently second waves which are ...

... PICTORIAL POLITICS. In Central Europe. T3y the time these lines are read there may be a development or settlement of the Russo- Polish question. At the time of writing Warsaw seems to have been saved from the Red attack, and it is very likely that that fact may induce them to modify their terms. The whole controversy has been accentuated by the greed of both parties. The Poles started an ...

... . The Coal Strike. It is to be hoped that by the time these lines are read Mr. Clynes' suggestion that a judicial public discussion should at once be arranged between the miners' leaders and the Government will have been acted upon, and the fullest publicity given to the arguments on both sides. We believe that the public in general are more bitterly opposed to the miners over this strike ...

... . The Crisis. J t looked at the end of last week as if the country might be plunged into the middle of industrial civil war. If that had been so it would have been a deplorable manifestation of a breakdown in the proverbial com mon sense and equipoise of the British people. As Mr. W. H. Trewartha-James said at the annual dinner of the Federation of British Industries last week, The problem of ...