follows :— " To the Home Ruler, Irish or British, they may involve, at any rate, the postponement of a symmetrical system of self-govern- ment, and to the Unionist, Irish and...

see how Ulster could possibly accept an automatic Inclusion after six years. What the Prime Minister was proposing to the Ulstermen was that they should destroy their...

M R. ASQI/ITH'S proposed alterations in the Home Rule Bill in order to avoid civil war have eclipsed all other questions during the week. We have dealt with them at length...

easy it was to take a Referendum in Ulster. Why would not what was good for Ulster be good for the United Kingdom P The Bill affected the whole of the United Kingdom almost as...

tear—no doubt to please Sir Edward Grey—over the practical impossibility of devising a system of "Home Rule within Home Rule," and after rejecting also Sir Horace Plunkett's...

of entry into the excluded area " When these counties have been excluded there must be adjustments, administrative and financial, in the application of the Bill to the rest of...

any case.

:hip, the good sense, and the essential moderation of this offer. Sir Edward Carson might most reasonably have Insisted that, if a Referendum excluded a county, only a...

shortly. Mr. Healy declared that he preferred no Bill at all to that pro- posed by the Government, since he believed it to spell Finis Hibernia& Mr. Healy's objection was to any...

acquiescence," and Mr. O'Brien bad spoken on 'this hateful proposal," Sir Edward Carson rose to make what was in every sense the most statesmanlike and the most profound speech...

Though in Mexico the torrent of blood still flows and the tale of inglorious and cruel battles is further augmented, there has been no sign of either aide obtaining a marked...

of Mr. Lloyd Georges reckless invective and unabashed ignorance. As Mr. Smith put it, lie had heard some men who had slandered, knowing something; he had heard a few men who...

the appointment of the Select Committee to inquire into the charges against Lord Murray, and explained the delay that had taken place in selecting the members. While crediting...

reso- lution asking the House to regret Mr. Lloyd George's repeated inaccuracies and his gross and unfounded personal attacks upon individuals. Mr. Lloyd George's defence was...

have raised the recent war scare in Germany, we are bound to say that the movement is one calculated to cause grave anxiety among close observers of the European situation. It...

the late Bishop of London, at University College yesterday week. Sir Edward Grey, who presided, acknowledged the debt he personally owed to Dr. Creighton's friendship and...

Plumage Bill was reads second time in the Commons by a majority of 232 (297-15).

word of much-needed warning in Wednesday's Times. It is greatly to be hoped, he premises, that the Prime Minister's proposals, though obviously unacceptable to Unionists in...

Saturday afternoon, and were welcomed by the local authorities and representatives of the Powers. The Albanians present showed great enthusiasm for the new ruler, who has made a...

tution on "The Stage Irishman." It is a bard thing for a lecturer with a reputation as a humorous writer to live up to it, but Canon Hannay succeeded. Yet his address was not a...

price will be lowered from 2d. to id. In view of the fact that the public has come to the conclusion that the proper price for a big newspaper is Id. and for a email one id.,...

the National Art-Collections Fund for £45,000, and presented to the National Gallery, was seriously muti- lated by Miss Mary Richardson, a well-known militant woman suffragist,...

the country is a proof that the Times is regarded as a national institution—an institution as to which the public have a right to express an opinion, and not merely a private...

Jan. 29th. Consols (21) were on Friday 744 —Friday week 75.

THE EXCLUSION PROBLEM. I N writing last week we purposely made no mention of the rumour that Mr. Asquith's scheme for Exclusion was to be for a limited period, followed by...

A VERY general belief seems to prevail in the country that now that Mr. Asquith has gone so far in the direction of Exclusion, and Sir Edward Carson has met him in so...

'TIRE chief event of the week is the probability, destined, we hope, to harden into a certainty, that civil war in Ulster will now be avoided. Next only in importance is the...

A T the moment there can be no question that politically the most important personality in the country is Mr. Asquith. For the time he completely dominates the political...

B Y far the most striking passage in Colonel Seely's somewhat pessimistic stocktaking of the Army was his account of the growth of the National Reserve. The National Reserve on...

S OME months ago we combated the popular belief that Pope wrote nothing worth having except in the heroic couplet A similar superstition ens' ts as to the work of Crabbe, the...

MILE ordinary layman of the Church of England does not -i_ necessarily expect to agree intellectually with his clergy- man. He may or may not do so. He does not much mind...

MENNYSON, who understood and loved the same things as Virgil, has written of him with deeper feeling than any other English poet :— " Thou that singest wheat and woodland,...

A HUNDRED-AND-SEVEN-POITND WOODEN COTTAGE. r To 7811 EDITOR Or VIII “SPZCTATOZ"] Brit,—I send you herewith plans and specification of the weather-board model cottage erected...

ULSTER AND THE COVENANT. Sc,—I am looking forward with great interest to your next issue and to your views on Mr. Asquith's proposals for Ulster. It seems to me that our...

Si,—You endorse the last sentence of Colonel White's letter which appears in your last issue "If unfortunately it comes to the worst, the Army nitwit obey; it has no option in...

SIE,—The Home Rule Bill is dead. It was dead from the moment when Mr. Asquith made his speech of February 10th on the Address in reply to the Speech from the Throne. Many...

refers to my views in his letter published in your last issue, and I hasten to reply. I maintain that the wording of the Covenant forbids Covenanters to be a party to the...

SRL "Erscr■ros."1 Sni,—The enclosed cutting from the Freeman's Journal of March 6th may interest you as a specimen of the Anglo-Irish entente in pastime. The Gaelic Athletic...

(TO TER EDITOR 07 THE SPECTATOS.'1 Siw,—The recent deputation from the National Service League to the Prime Minister, on the subject of unpreparedness for home defence, has led...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE SF...TX/08.1 Sra,—With reference to the prospect of civil war in Ireland, you quoted last Saturday the words used by Tennyson in a letter to Queen...

[TO TAM EDITOR Or 11111 ..SPRCTATOL".1 SIR,—The majority of producers and distributors of milk realize, even more than does the public, the unsatisfactory condition in which...

Ito TIIR EDITOR OR TIM ..EPRCTATOR."3 Sin,—One of the arguments most commonly brought forward by the opponents of compulsory military training is that such an idea is contrary...

"Soocroroiel SIR, — Is not the reason why there is so much religions unrest in our Church the divorce from reality of our ecclesiasticism Look, for example, at the almost...

Sin,—Is it quite so difficult, as some of your correspondents appear to think, to reconcile the demands of Church order with those of Christian charity in the matter of the...

I've ma Marron or Mt 4. Srmrt - nrol. - .1 Sre.,—May I be allowed to call attention to a pert of the Bishop of Zanzibar's second letter which seems to have received scant...

[To sax EDTIOIL or ring .SPIC.7011." J SIR,—The article on the nationalization of railways in your issue of November 1st, 1913, treated the subject from the financial and...

Maros or rns ..ersorrro. - ] SIR,—As you permitted me in August last to explain Llie objects of this Committee, which I helped to establish, may / be permitted briefly to reply...

pro sa. EDITOR or nog “Sesc-rrro.".] SIR,—Sir Hugh Shaw Stewart (Spectator, February 21st) is unfortunate in selecting Dr. John Maeculloch as an authority on Highland...

[To sax Erman or sax "Srscrerox:'1 Si,—Is it a fact that Lord Murray has "increased his funds by bets on the St. Leger and the Oaks or by systematic speculation on the 'tips'...

[To ran Maws or sus "Sszcsiscat."3 Sra,—In my boyhood I spent a twelvemonth in the book- binding trade, and in that trade my father has spent his whole life. In my experience "...

THE GREY MARE. I'm bought you a hunter, my daughter, at last. A handsomer mare never galloped in grey, Good-tempered, high-eouraged, and clever, and fast While drawing, a...

[To say ED17011. OP 1E2 "SlliCTILSOR."] S/R,—The letter from the authors of The Book of the Duffs in your issue of February 21st sets one thinking of one's own links with the...

[To THE EDITOR Or The SPELT/A . 0,4"] seems to me that the elm blossoms this year are more vivid and beautiful than I ever remember them in this part of the country. I wonder...

[To TZLS EDISON or vas .srzerwea."1 Szn,—There appears a paragraph on the front page of your last issue stating that Xing Oscar dissolved the Swedish Riksdag. The present King...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marled "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily Le held to be in agreement with the Mews therein expressed or with the mode of...

A PEACE BOANERGES.* DR. DAVID STARR JORDAN, of Stanford University, Cali- fornia, has written a stirring philippic against war, which affords a curious and instructive example...

" WHY should I write a preface ?" once asked a young author of an old hand. "To give the reviewer something to say," was the reply ; and the truth of the cynical remark is very...

in the United States, has given us here only a fragment of the memories which must crowd the brain of one who has been in the thick of recent American politico. He suggests that...

of the Alaskan Range, is not only the highest summit in North America, but in many ways the most inaccessible peak on the globe. Other high mountains rise from elevated...

ON opening this volume and turning to the introductory note we were agreeably excited to learn that the collection contains many stories by the Danish wizard not previously...

place in the "right centre" of the Church of England; and from this point of vantage he has long been accustomed to issue very candid • Fairy Tales. and °Our Stories by Han....

IN this very careful volume Mr. Kingsford, whose work in connexion with the London Chronicles is already well known, attempts a general treatment of a difficult and little-known...

IN this bulky volume Mr. Fitzgerald, surely one of the latest left of all Dickens's old lieutenants on Household Words and AU the Year Round, gives a record of his fifteen...

THE FOLK OF FURRY FARM.f YET another name has to be added to the long roll of Irish women, beginning with Maria Edgeworth, who have won distinction as writers of fiction. Miss...

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and J. H. Robb. (Belfast: McCaw, Stevenson, and Orr.)—The first atone of the famous Belfast school— known to its affectionate alumni as "Inst."—was laid on July 3rd, 1810....

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