now lies in the Abbey died for a necessary and not for a perverse cause, died fully appreciating what he was doing and why ho was 'king it, the salutes cf all the Field-Marshals...

overcome. The offer to Ireland of partnership with" the greatest Empire the world has ever seen in the greatest moment of its history" remained open. Mr. Lloyd George insisted...

Lord Mayor's banquet on Tuesday. The speech was not the medium, as has often happened on these occasions, of some important communication to the nation. It was rather an...

though there have been, of course, most regrettable reprisals, the exaggeration has been great even in a land of exaggeration. The information mostly comes from people who have...

fr HE body of an unnamed soldier taken from the battlefields .1 of France NW buried on Thursday in Westminster Abbey in the holiest spot of English ground. As this moving...

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correspondent of the Paris Meals, that the Allied Governments had not utilized the complete victory which he had won for them in order to obtain a good peace. He said...

most serious attention to the review published elsewhere entitled "The Roman Church and Killing No Murder.' " We eincerely, hope; however, that they will not think that we are...

Southern Slav delegates at Santa Margherita reports that the vexed controversy about the Adriatic frontier was amicably settled on Wednesday by Count Sforza and 31. Trumbitch....

the end of last week, about the method of exacting reparation from Germany. First of all, a conference of Allied and German experts, meeting shortly at Brussels, is to report on...

Senator Harding reeeived 44:14 votes in the Electoral College, as against 127 for Governor Cox. The Republicans expect to have a majority of 22 in the Senate and a majority of...

on Thursday, November 4th, to protest—not against the cruel murders of soldiers and policemen in Ireland, but against "the policy of frightfulness" which he attributed to the...

foully murdered at Granand, County Longford. It is alleged by the Times correspondent that some houses belonging to Sem Feiners were burnt by way of reprisals, but the • troupe...

last made a stand against the mutinous railwaymen who refuse to work trains carrying troops or police. It has given notice to all its employees that it will cease operations on...

forming the executive of the "Second International," issued last week a manifesto denouncing the "Third International" as "fanatical dogmatists" and " tyran- nical dictators."...

Catholics, and millions of foreign Roman Catholics, throughout the world will loathe the doctrine of "Killing No Murder" as described in the Irish Theological Quarterly quite as...

Cecil, deolined to order a public inquiry into the question whether the troops and police in Ireland. who were charged with committing reprisals, had acted under orders. The...

Monday, was recommitted for various amendments. One of these secured certain annual grants to Trinity College, Dublin, and to the University Colleges. By a new clause the...

of a Ministry of Health Bill, containing a number of unrelated provisions. Local authorities are authorized, for instance, to hire compulsorily any empty houses "suitable for...

reading on Tuesday, by 158 votes to 78, but most of the speakers criticized the Ministry very sharply, and many Unionists voted against the Government. The general feeling of...

in the Foreign Office, then in the Treasury, next in the Board of Inland Revenue, and finally in the office of Registrar-General. It is pleasant to think that Mr. Victor Mallet,...

Service will hear with regret of the resignation of Sir Bernard Mallet, the Registrar-General. Though he has not elected to belong to the new class of Civil servant, and has...

as representatives of the miners, and Mr. Brace has accepted from the government the position of Labour Adviser In the Mines Department. This appointment has been the signal for...

on Wednesday, Sir. L. Worthington Evans moved a new clause providing that if either Rouse of Commons were not properly constituted—if, that is, less than half the members were...

and the Communist Party of Great Britain was held in the Albert Hall last Sunday. Mr. Malone said that "the day was not far distant when they would meet in the Albert Hall to...

Apr. 15, 1920; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 630 Thursday week, b2} ; a year ago, Hi.

THE STILL-ROOM MAIDS AND THE BISCUIT. W E are not impressed, or even interested, by the polite "you be d—d " manner used in his letter to the Times on Public Expenditure by...

W E have become increasingly convinced during the last six months that nothing but our policy of rationing the Government as a whole will serve our impera- tive needs. Further,...

A S the Government apparently intend to re-examine the whole question of Ministers' salaries, we desire to express a strong opinion about the lines on which this revision should...

A GREAT deal has been written lately about the Jutland papers, and the leas responsible part of the Press whips up a personal issue between Lord Jellicoe and Lord Beatty. If...

" Y OU have all the time there is " is a witticism which has become a commonplace. We are all tired of hearing it. It is not true. Only a few people have "all the time there...

TRADE AND MARKETS. ET° THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOB."1 Sie,—Once again events have shown that the Stock Markets are no longer governed by the incidents of the moment, but by...

M ANY of our readers seem to have been interested by the quotation from Pope which showed how our greatest analytical and prophetic poet had peered into the future and envisaged...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those whicle fill treble the space.] FOR THE SAKE OF...

$m,—The Spectator is not given to plunging; but on the Irish question it seems, if I may say so, to show a disposition to plunge. And, as the .Spectator represents all that is...

Sia,—Kindly allow me a few lines to protest against one (sentence of Mr. G. H. Stuart Bunning's letter on -the subject of salaries in the Civil Service. He says: - "It has been...

so generous in giving to those who do not agree with it on particular subjects an opportunity to express their views that I venture to make some observations uptai the article...

one has quoted from Hamlet— "Or that the everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst se/f-slaughter." (" canon" was formerly written "cannon ")—and from Cam beline- . . . ....

English and Catholic" writes to you to say that we are not entitled to misrepresent the motives and actions of rebels in arms. Of course we are not. But what are the grounds of...

(To THE EDYTO3 Or Tin " SPECTATOR.") Sea,—Your review, tinder this heading, of Mr. Greenwood's. book, Public Ownership of the Liquor Trade, is extremely able. and fair, and I...

[To THI EDITOR OF TM " SercrATort.'] Sm,—Most of us, I am sure, agree with your correspondent "English and Catholic" that the suicide of the late Lord Mayor of Cork was not a...

[To Tin Ramos or THY " Seeorsroa."3 gne—I imagine that very few people either in England or in I re land have read carefully Hansard- containing the report of the Debates on...

ho SHE EDITOR Or TIDS " SPEDIVIOR."] SIR,—The article on Social Service in your issue of October 16th recalls the valuable help which you gave in the years before the war to the...

IT° Tilt EDITOR or III. " SPECIATOR."1 Sins—I shall be much obliged if you can give me a small space in which to reply to my two critics, Mr. Miller and Mr. Botbamley. I cannot...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—The first volume of Public School Verse, published in September by Messrs. Heineniann, has been so well received that it is proposed...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") lE,--SUTely the Government are guilty of gross extravagance ID aPPeinting another Irish Judge. There were always far too many Irish Judges;...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Referring to your brief notice of my Magic in Names in last week's issue. I thought that the days had passed away when reviewers made...

OF THE " SPECTATOR.") these times of unrest it is a common accusation against the Church of England that she stands aloof from the most pressing industrial and social problems...

Or THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR—Sir Harry Johnston, one of the Vice-Presidents of the Plumage Bill Group, has addressed the following letter to a representative of the trade in wild...

A CHARACTER OF GOYA. The terribilita of Michael Angelo; the potent mysticisms of Blake; the foppery of Lawrence; the apish savagery of Voltaire; the charnel-house horror of...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR "1 Sut,—The review of Miss Margaret Dmunmond's new volume on child psychology will no doubt attract many readers. I venture, therefore, to ask...

tion of their present season—Otway's tragedy Venice Presetv'd - will be given at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith (by arrange ment with Mr. Nigel Playfair), on the 28th and 30th...

" MACBETH" AT THE ALDWYCII THEATRE. IT is, I am told, a prineiple of architecture that the voids are as important as the solids. I wonder if it would be possible to bring this...

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tanglement for passing feet That must go always up and down From the river to the town. For men walk there who never see The lovely gestures that a tree Makes over them when...

THE NEW POLONII713. (Triolet.) Now be thou Master of the unspoken word, The spoken word shall Master be of thee! A deadly weapon! Hold this two-edged sword And be thou...

writer's name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or am marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to twin agreement with the views therein expressed or with...

THE GRENFELL TWINS! ' Fitexcers ANO RIVBRSDALB GlIBMFBLI, are happy in their bio- grapher. Mr. Buchan is happy in the subjects of his Memoir. A more delightful pair than these...

AsniAssaooss. — The White-Headed Boy 8.30-2.30 [Comedy of the Abbey Theatre school. very funny and trenchant.) SHANTESBORY.—The Great Lover . • . • 8.30-2.30 [Mr. Maurice...

number of the Irish Theological Quarterly the place of honour is given to an article by "Alfred O'Rahilly" entitled "Some Theology About Tyranny." It deserves, nay commands, the...

Mn. LAWSON'S stories of Intelligence work in the /Egean during the war are delightful ; they are light while informing, high spirited but scholarly, and they have a verbal...

LADY Evers has shown enterprise and courage in writing the first book in English on lustre pottery, which has fascinated a select band of experts and collectors for a good many...

Ws meat congratulate Mr. Fortesoue on the completion of his history of the British Army up to Waterloo. It is a masterly work, planned on a grand scale and executed with...

TuM little book contains the very able, elaborate, and carefully laboured portraits which last week we compared with Mrs. Asquith's brilliant lightning sketches. If we may...

shores on her forests ; for our Navy was a timber-bunt one, and some, at least, of her industries—e.g., iron smelting—were also to dependent. With the advent of the ironclad and...

GORGEOUS POETRY.. Gorgeous Poetry is an admirable book of parodies printed and arranged in such a way that it cannot fail to bring the " Geor- gian " anthologies to the mind of...

contrast to the long biographical novels now in vogue Mrs. Davvson-Scott restricts the action of her story to three days. The central figures belong to an ancient and' decayed...

THE ROMANTIC* IN her novel Miss Sinclair gives an able study of the psychology of cowardice. The first section of the story is concerned with the coming together of Charlotte...

6d. net.)—This commentary on Part V. of the Finance Act, imposing the new tax on the profits of limited companies, sets a new fashion in legal handbooks by being almost...

(Methuen. 564—Attractive poems for children of the school of Nursery Rhymes of London Town. A little lacking in vigour, but very pleasing.—The Broads, 1919. By Hugh...

[Notice is this colsom does , not neresesardy produde andssequeed mine.] The current number of the English Historical Review (Long. mans, 7s. 6d. net)—the last number to appear...

European Armour and Arms (Bell and Sons; 5 vols., £15 15a) iH as fascinating as was the first. The text is as informing and the illustrations are as carefully chosen and as...

monthly, The Canadian Forum (25c.), which seeks "to secure a freer and more informed discussion of public questions and, behind the strife of parties, to trace and value those...

by Wilfred Whitten. (Lane. 2 vols. 31s. 65. net.)—We are glad to see a good reprint of Smith's whimsical biography of his friend, Nollekens the sculptor, which is one of the...

known as The Ex-Seraiee Man has changed its title, after two years' existence, to The Service Man (2d.). It "deals with all sorts of matters which are of interest to men who arc...

Vinton Murray. (Boston : Privately printed.)-1ffiss Murray has done a bold thing in essaying a new verse translation of the Inferno in Dante's own feria rima and in printing it...

Allen and Unwin. 16s. net.)—" What is Truth ? asked jesting Pilate, and stayed not for an answer." Pilate was doubt- less accustomed to an atmosphere like that of the Balkans,...

Ogilvie. (Selwyn and Blount. 25s. net.)—All lovers of birds will be pleased with the delightful book by the late Mr. Fergus Monteith Ogilvie, described on the title page as a...

and the Thousand, Garibaldi's Defence of the Roman Republic, and Garibaldi and the Making of licify—have been reprinted without the notes and illustrations in Messrs. Nelson's...

7s. 6d. net.)—Min. Dobbs, who is a sister of Mrs, Sidney Webb and Lady Courtney, has published this touching little book in memory of her son. Noel Williams was a young...

M Bideau appears to combine the simplicity of Id. Francis Jammes and the compassion of AL Duhamel with a cynicism all his own. His vers fibres, unlike those of many of his con-...

to its excellent series, Helps for Students of History, a valuable Student's Guide to the Manuscripts of the British M useum, by Mr. J. P. Gilson (Is. net), who outlines the...

(S.P.C.K. 12s. net.)—The Bishop of Worcester, when he was a Canon of Westminster, spent much of his leisure in the Muniment Room of the Abbey. This scholarly and interesting...

the Greek Poets, by John Addington Symonds (Black, 21s. net), an excellent book Which reached a thini edition in 1893 and has been out of print for some years. Symonds's survey...

Bach IleAlastern. (Appleto. 16s. net.)—The second volume of Professor MeMaster's work carries his story from the appear since of German submarines off the American coasts in...

and Decoration, c book of extracts from review articles and miscellanies: - ..och Messrs. Methuen have just published (68 . 6 d. ne. A great many of his views strike the reader...