A Spectator editorial from December 1911 on the Lancashire cotton dispute, in which master manufacturers locked out about 160,000 weavers. It explains how the Weavers' Union demand that non-union workers be dismissed led to strikes and then the lock-out. It also covers the effect on spinners and on other trades that depend on Lancashire yarn, and a secondary demand for a five per cent wage increase. The writer strongly opposes the union's position and argues from the principle of freedom of labour.

A review in The Spectator (17 June 1911) of Adelaide Gosset's book Shepherds of Britain. It draws on the sayings of the Scottish shepherd James Gardner and on Walter Skeat's chapter on the ancient British sheep-counting score, which survives in Lincolnshire and has Welsh parallels. It also covers sheep folklore, including homing instinct, weather prophecy, sacrificial customs and the bond between shepherd and dog. It contains nothing on weaving or textile technique.