S INCE we wrote last week the centre of interest in the almost hopeless Irish problem has shifted from the pact between the Provisional Government and Mr. De Valera to the...

forces and drove them from Pettigo on the Fermanagh- Donegal border. This movement against the invaders was carried out with remarkable efficiency and rapidity. Many of the...

a satisfactory conclusion to the London conferences, but we cannot pretend to share this optimism, for at the back of Mr. Griffith and Mr. Collins is Mr. De Valera, who in a...

Mr. J. W. Flanagan, a Roman Catholic Resident Magistrate, was shot dead by three assassins as he was leaving the cathedral. The Dublin Coalition, which came into being under the...

the Daily Chronicle, on the authority of the well-informed "A. P. N.," that though Mr. Griffith, who is conferring with the Government in London, has given satisfactory...

the part of the British Government, who are of course simply acting in accordance with the Treaty in protecting Northern Ireland, was characteristic. It will be remembered that...

Readers experiencing difficulty in obtaining the • " Spectator " regularly and promptly through the abolition of the Sunday post or other causes should become yearly...

1st, said that he had done all that was possible to make the Genoa, Conference a success. Its failure was due to the insolence - of the Bolshevik's. As for the Hague Conference...

of the country assembled 'on the Horse Guards' Parade, and were there joined by the Metropolitan branches of the Legion. They were all in plain clothesanci-one noticed many who...

and once again to put themselves in military formation- reminded -us vividly • of the , parade- of - the -Surrey Veterans which - took' place lit June, 1910. That was the parade...

Dundee ,Chamber of Commerce.-. He declared, that he was more cosrsineed than ever-tbat. State- tradinge.watc. an: expensive -lintegy.: Under , -Free Trade our. manufacturers -...

extrava- gance of the Government had beeneallowe,d-teicontinue so long. Eir Eric Geddes had been called in with_his -axe three years earlier in all probability there wouldhe a...

-Britialt- Legion ; under the presidency , . of. Lord Haig, held a memorial parade at the Cenotaph. One -of the objects of the Legion is:," to perpetuate the memory of those who...

who had passed' beyond the - ken-of the War Office. Iii Surrey - alone 2,000 - names - were- registered ' and at the parade to which we are referring 1,400 - volturtarily - put...

contained in a sermon preached by Cardinal Logue on Wednesday which we see reported in the Manchester Guardian.! Cardinal Logue.: said Tor , seven, hundred- years we have been...

have met in. Parin-to.-.consider how Germany might , raise. a, large-loatt.on - account of reparations;: had recom- mendedthat:thea/1nual- payment due from: Germany should be...

of the new Brennan helicopter. It was said that this new type of aeroplane could rise to a height of 2,000 feet -in a vertical line, hover in the air for half an hour and come...

again very long. Peerages were conferred on Sir J. B. Robinson, of the Rand; Sir Archibald Williamson, Sir .R. H. Borwick, Sir W. Vestey and Sir S. J. Waring. Mr. Amery and...

Observer, a donor, at present anbnymous, has presented the sum of £30,000 to the " Old Vic." This sum, with the amount which has been collected in various quarters, is...

the presence of her husband must be held to act under his coercion and therefore must be acquitted has been condemned as obsolete by the Committee of lawyers whom the Lord...

adopted at the instance of Socialist co-operators, that the Co-operative Wholesale Society should compel all its employees, on pain of dismissal, to join trade unions. The...

happily coming to an end. On Friday, June 2nd, the ballot taken by the forty-seven unions other than the Amalgamated Engineering Union -showed that 99,313 men voted for...

to return to work exercised a strong moral influence on the conference of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, which met at York on the day when .the result of the ballot in the...

urgent appeal to the unionist engineers to vote for peace. He pointed out on Monday that, while the York conference did not expressly approve of the employers' terms, it...

surgery" without a medical or surgical qualifi- cation, was bound to excite drscussion. Correspondents in Tues- day's Times point out that the General Medical Council rigidly...

Apr. 13, 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 99j; Thursday week, 991; a year ago, &71.

THE CABINET SECRETARIAT. C HANGE is the condition of a healthy political existence ; but changes must be carefully watched in order that we may avoid reaction under the name of...

and Liberty Movement, which by an energetic and very ably conducted campaign inspired and secured the acceptance of the present system of partial self-government in the Church,...

which is due to assemble at The Hague next Thursday is vague and dis- quieting. It will be remembered that Mr. Lloyd George, in a last desperate effort to avert the total...

T CONFESS to having done. no more work. towards the International Exhibition; which has now been triumphantly brought over from Amsterdam to the Victoria and Albert Museum,,...

W HAT •would Hogarth have said• could he have read the long newspaper correspondences which have been going on lately about " What to do with our children ? " He would have been...

I AST year I was in England and saw the redoubtable Australians making centuries against our best bowlers, sending our most renowned batsmen out for a duck, walking off with the...

THE BANKING POSITION.—I. GROWTH IN BANKING DEPOSITS — EFFECT OF TRADE DEPRESSION — BANKING RESOURCES AND NATIONAL CREDIT—SMALLER PROFITS— STRONG BALANCE-SHEETS—TRIBUTE FROM THE...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more dective, than those which fill treble the space.] "LIBERTY " IN IRELAND. (To...

ETo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I am sure the regret at the retirement of the Rev. Mr. Jowett will be universal. Our great preachers are few in number, and our need...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] ,SIR, In your article on the above in your issue of June 3rd you point out a movement to the left in home politics, and refer especially to...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It is generally recognized now that the so-called F' Treaty' with Southern Ireland is a complete failure, and r a new avenue must be...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —The following experience of a coffee-planter in Mysore may be of interest. He writes :- "I have been trying an experiment in piso de...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTILTOE."] SIR,—I have been reading with interest a summary report of a lecture by Miss N. E. Layard, F.S.A., F.L.S., President of the Prehistoric...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The proposed international loan to Germany may prove effective to establish credits with that nation and hasten the payment of just...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, I have read with interest the letters in the Spectator on " Authors' Favourite Words." I have often thought it would be interesting to...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Allow me a few lines on More Old Papers" in yours of May 27th. I have read the Spectator for fifty years, and enjoy its absolute...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — " Where are we going for our holiday? " is a question we are asking once again. Not quite all of us, however, as many of our clergy...

THE LANTERN. Sax swings tho lantern. Night around her Swings out, swings in ; the roadside falls. Under her feet abysmal darkness sinks ; Then from the pit, to meet her feot,...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."3 SIR,—Your correspondent in the letter headed "The Raven in the West" in your issue for May 27th apparently refers to the Turkey buzzard, a...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR."1 have just been reading your remarks on The Cuckoo's Secret, by Edgar Chance, and while I have not yet read the book itself, I cannot refrain...

[To THE EDITOR 07 TEE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, —I am delighted to see the letter signed "E. H. G." in your issue of May 27th. I have lately been staying in Chalfont St. Peter, and...

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Mr. Hughes's The Sister's Tragedy the management have got hold of an interesting, if imperfect, play. Perhaps it was the first play, A happy New Year, that Tut us in a bad...

said to be sixteen distinct melodies in the world and about six stories. But of plays of British rule in the East— India or Hajiristan—there is but one. It is nearly always...

THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS OF FRENCH ART THE BURLINGTON FINE ARTS CLUB. [BY INVITATION ONLY.] A GREAT many people complain that they are tired of hearing about Cezanne, and, since...

ragoswAm—Hedda Gabler . . . . • • . . 8.15-2.30 [Mrs. Patrick Campbell and the Everyman Theatre Company in Ibsen's play. A magnificent play, very well acted.] HAYMARRET.—The...

name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the...

letters submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do his best to return contributions in case of rejection. Poems should be addressed to the...

1.HE THOUSAND BUDDHAS.* IT is a difficult task to give any true and just account of this memorable book. It is great indeed, not merely from the artistic and historical point...

THE COLLECTORS' GALLERY, 36 SLOANE STREET. [The " Old " Water-Colour Society, past and present. " Old soldiers, sweet- heart, are surest."] TIM GALLERIES OF ARTHUR TOOTH &...

given us in this chronicle an excellent example of the " getting together " of. Capital and Labour. If the spirit of the Agricultural Club pervaded all industries there would....

.Tune 12th.—Wreneoee HALL.-Song Recital 3.0 [By means of new translations Miss Lucia Young. Miss Olga Haley, Mr. John Adams, and Mr. Frederick naTISIOW are boldly attempting to...

TWENTY-SEVEN years ago Mr. Bernard Shaw fell foul of Dr. Nordau over his theory that modern art was a symptom of the degeneration and hysteria of an outworn civilization. Like...

THE age of mysteries is not past. Every month brings mysteries, criminal, social or political, as strange and inex- plicable as any that puzzled our forefathers. The case of...

most to defeat the French designs on Southern India and to establish and maintain our military prestige among the native potentates. It is curious that the life of this very...

Ma. G. K. CHESTERTON, who writes a preface to the various spirited tales and fragments which make up this little volume, leaves very little for the reviewer to add to his...

IT was a dreadful day when Mr. Max Beerbohn wrote Savonarola in Seven Men. Before that Mr. Laurence Housman's blank verse in Little Plays of St. Francis would perhaps have...

Soaix three years ago there appeared a book which claimed tht by means of automatic writing it had been possible to locate the position and length of the Edgar Chapel at...

" ORIGINAL Sin standeth not in the following of Adam (as the Pelagians do vainly talk)," says the ninth of the Thirty-Nine Articles. Th Pelagians and their vain talking have...

WHEN the author of a new book on dry-fly fishing begins with an apology, the casual reader may be inclined to accept it and pass by. But Mr. Bridgett makes good his claim to...

MR. J. G. Slum, in his elaborate treatise on Organized Produce Markets (Longmans, 12s. 6d. net), throws much light on tho processes which are summed up in the enigmatic reports...

Dn. J. R. TANNER has done a service to historical students by compiling his Tudor Constitutional Documents, 1485-1603, with an Historical Commentary (Cambridge University Press,...

THE TACTLESS MAN.* Ix The Tactless Man Mrs. Dowdall writes with her usual incisive irony. Indeed, as is her custom, she is distinctly hard on the personages of her own...

7s. 6d. net.)—The perennially adventure- some must always command admiration. Again Mr. Eden Phillpotts breaks new ground. His latest book is a phantasy, in which all opposites...

A MASTER OF FORM.* I FEEL on reflection that I had no business to seize upon Mr. Pearsall Smith's new Trivia. I am sure that it was not a little shameless to do so and to review...

Odyssey, and his interesting prose version of The Odyssey have at last reached 'their second editions, and are issued in neat octavo volumes uniform with the new editions of his...

(Cambridge University Press. 7s. 6d. and Cs. 6d. net respectively.)—These well written and well illustrated hand- books, the work of five Dublin scholars, are identical in...

Reynolds Brown. (Macmillan. 55. net.)—Mr. Brown's enthusiastic little essay on Lincoln is the more noteworthy because the author comes of an old Virginian family and remem- bers...

(Heinemann. 8s. 6d. net.)—Hearn's abounding popu- larity in America accounts for the appearance of this selection— edited by a Professor of Columbia University—from his three...

S. Salvador de Madariaga. (Con- stable. 3s. 6d. net.)—In his Shelley and Calderon and Other Essays, S. de Madariaga extolled the merits of Spanish popular poetry. These...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.) The Statesman's Year-book, 1922, edited by Sir John Scott Keltie and M. Epstein. (Macmillan. 20s....

(Cambridge University Press. 15s.)—These lively ballads form a cycle relating the tremendous deeds of the Serbian hero, Marko Kraljevic. They are of traditional origin and were...

15s. net.)—This new volume of the Westminster Commentaries is admirably edited and will interest the educated layman, for whose use it is mainly intended. Mr. Ragg deals with...

Mr. John Frowde, the chief librarian, of the Juvenile Lending Departments in the Rotherhithe and St. Olave Libraries, which contain between them over three thousand volumes. The...

Graham. (G. Allen and Unwin. 12s. 6d. net.)— Mr. Graham has thought it worth while to describe at length the agitation of the " conscientious objectors " who would not fight for...

J. H. Patterson. (Hutchinson. 16s. net.)—In the summer of 1917 Colonel Patterson, who had commanded a body of Zionists at Gallipoli, was ordered to raise a Jewish regiment. The...