there was fierce fighting with rifles and revolvers. The fighting began with the throwing of bombs, by which thirty- eight persons, all Unionists, were wounded. Barricades were...

Fein workmen in Belfast were boycotted by their Unionist mates in Belfast as a protest. The murder campaign had penetrated into Ulster, and the Unionists said in effect, " We...

the rioting.on Monday had been begun by Unionists. Liberal newspapers in England which make it a habit to excuse and defend Sinn Feiners, and to accuse and cOndemn Unionists...

an interview between Mr. Arthur Griffith, who apparently would be one of the Irish representatives at the conference, and Mr. J. M. N. Jeffries of the Daily Mail which was...

T HE Government's " final " answer to Sinn Fein—let us hope that it is really the final answer—is not yet pub- lished when we go to press on Thursday. Rumours are fairly...

admitted by Mr. O'Duffy, the Sinn Fein liaison officer for Ulster, who has declared that if the Sinn Fein boycott of Ulster was not enough, Sinn Feiners would put . on " the...

precedent to anything, to say something which he believes to be untrue. Mr. De Valera says that he believes it to be untrue that he can come to a conference in any capacity...

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

Chronicle, Mr. Fisher reported to the Sub-Commission of the League of Nations Assembly which is concerned with the Russian famine that the British Government would not provide...

ment hoped to give a fresh impetus to industry by assisting the banks to extend credit. It was suggested' that a number of the so-called employment exchanges might be closed,...

23rd, refuted the suggestion of Labour politicians that the Government had done nothing to relieve distress. They had, in fact, spent £105,000,000 on the unemployed since the...

in aid of miners' wages during the past quarter has not all been spent. Both the coal-owners and the miners, especially in South Wales, are now demanding that the balance should...

week to recommend the ratification of the separate peace treaties with Germany, Austria, and Hungary. It made one reservation—namely, that the President should not appoint a...

affirming that the Government's offer to the Simi Feiners went " to the utmost limit possible." Upon the supreme issue of the allegiance of Ireland to the King they would not...

rough country of central Malabar, between the coast railway and the Nilgiri hills. Detachments of the Dorset regiment had some sharp skirmishes last week near Nilambur, which...

bad faith by declaring that he was misinformed. They had taken steps " to cease all activity and to dissolve any organiza- tion in the East which might be construed as likely to...

his holiday retreat at Gairloch on Thursday, Sep- tember 22nd, to discuss unemployment. As we anticipated, he could only repeat his assurances that the Government were doing...

this time because the coal-owners and the Mines Department cannot agree as to the proportion of the wages bill which should be paid out of the Parliamentary grant-in-aid of...

Home Secretary has sent to Mr. Stanley Unwin, who had pro- tested against the deportation of Dr. Oscar Levy. The Home Secretary explained that as Dr. Levy was still a German...

of eighty-two, was one of the best known and best loved of the elder generation at Cambridge. He was a great scholar, and as a tutor of Trinity and as Regius Professor of Greek...

address on " The Spirit of Lawlessness " which Mr. James M. Beck, the American Solicitor-General, gave to the American Bar Association. Mr. Beck showed that the revolt against...

leaders last spring was made in Glasgow. A few public- spirited citizens had started a Roll of Voluntary Workers, who were prepared at a moment's notice to assist in maintaining...

in the by-election occasioned by the death of her husband. She stood as an Independent Liberal and polled 8,386 votes ; Sir Alan Hutchings, the Conservative candidate, received...

out, that the Trade Boards Act was introduced to ensure reasonable wages in sweated industries, but," they add, " we do not consider that our trade comes within that class, and...

the past week. On Wednesday the German mark was quoted at one moment at 490 to the pound sterling, or less than a halfpenny. The Austrian krone, nominally worth about ten-...

had already been granted several renewals of permission to stay in this country " on special grounds," and that as there seemed no longer sufficient reason to continue these...

taken place between the employees at the Broadford Works, Aberdeen, and the Prime Minister, and also between the Minister for Labour and the Chairman of the Broadford Works. The...

July 21, 1921; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 88i ; Thursday week., 88} ; a year ago, 84.

THE UNEMPLOYMENT PUZZLE. T " plans of the Government for dealing with unemployment are at present very vague. It is impossible to praise or condemn with any confidence till we...

Il lHE comfortable belief that little nations are less bellicose than great nations has been sorely shaken since the Armistice. Optimists thought that the recog- nition as...

T IIE second instalment of the correspondence of the late Mr. Page, formerly American. Ambassador in London, which is being published in the World's Work, is as interesting as...

I N dealing with the Post Office the introduction of figures balks, rather than assists, conclusions. The Post Office is pre-eminently a Department about which one feels. It...

AA GOOD many people who appear to be what is generally t called unlucky are very happy. They seem to have la sort of compensatory luck which one might call an inner 'luck. The...

" TT seems to me that one way out of the present diffi- culties we have to contend with in continuing fox- hunting might be overcome if we went back to early morning meets. The...

N O feat in the history of mountaineering has ever achieved such importance or become such a general topic for speculation with the public as the attempt to reach the highest...

BUDGET PROSPECTS. (To THE EDITOR. OF THE " Srecreroa." ] Sia,—There are two matters upon which the City has concentrated a good deal of attention during the past week. One of...

with interest the correspondence in your journal relative to a theatre exhibition "in London, and trust it may materialize, and on a scale which shall enable England to see not...

your advocacy of the organization of an exhibition of the art of the theatre in London. In 1914 I visited the Zurich Exhibition, of which Mr. Gordon Craig writes in your issue...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read,and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] STAGE DESIGN. [To THE EDITOR...

THE SPECTATOR."] 5/R,—The second Assembly of the League of Nations, which met in Geneva on September 5th, completed the first half of its business on Saturday, 24th. Last year...

• [To THE EDITOR• OF THE " SPECTATOR."' , SIR,—You were good enough. to .publish. in your last issue a letter-of mine Under -the above heading is which I pointed out that the...

SIR,—A great deal has been written about the Louth election, but there is nothing particular in the late election so far as party politics, whatever they are, are concerned. The...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—A small child once said that there were no wild beasts left now " except in theological gardens." As an offset to this undoubted fact...

SPECTATOR.") SIR , —The publication at Washington of the programme for the coming conference, so far as it affects Pacific and Far Eastern questions, is sufficiently...

THE " SPECTATOR.") Sia,—Miss Fry rightly draws attention to the security of relief supplies sent to Northern Russia. A few days ago a party of us (including Mr. Balfour, Mr....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Those who took some part in the tributes rendered to Dante in the earlier part of the year, which have been renewed in the Press during...

THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR , —In your leading article of last Saturday you say : " The British public, having made up its mind to swallow a nasty leek—that is to say, to ignore...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Most wild animals will remove their young when dis- turbed. On one occasion a man told me lie had seen a tigress with two young cubs...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE 0 SPECTATOR."] Sta,—May r through your columns appeal to your readers on behalf of a very deserving Society, the Newsvendors' Bene- volent Institution, at...

THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Your readers at present are evidently a good deal interested in the races which have inhabited Britain, and especially Scotland. May I be allowed a few...

SIR,—The farmers in the neighbourhood of Coverack are infested with badgers. Should any gentlemen who have dogs, and would like the sport, wish to organize a party the farmers...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —You kindly allowed an appeal in your columns on behalf of the costs cast upon the Bishop of Lincoln in the Privy Council Appeal Case....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SLR.—Apropos of the correspondence during August about badgers, perhaps the following newspaper cutting from the Western Daily Mercury may...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sta.—The humming-bird hawk-moth (3facroglossa stellatarum) appears to be unusually plentiful this year, but the insect described by " G." as...

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...

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...

IN ANOTHER COUNTRY. WHEN the lamp's guardian flame was out, he fell Through dark abysses full of hollow sound, Through caves of sleep that murmured like a shell, Till in...

A HISTORY OF PORCELAIN.* IT is a pleasure to come upon a book at once so authoritative and so readable as Mr. Burton's new history of porcelain. It is beautifully produced,...

h is safe to say that no Finance Minister in India ever before had such exciting adventures as fell to Sir Guy Fleetwood Wilson --or rather, let us say, as ho deliberately chose...

which he pleased the critical Augustan age. One specimen, familiar and typical, has found its way into the Golden Treasury—the poem beginning :- " The merchant, to secure his...

AFTER the first performances of his Variations on Three Blind Mice in 1901 Mr. Holbrooke was hailed by the Press as " the Richard Strauss of England." This was typically...

THE CRAVE IMPERTINENCE.t MR. MARRIOTT'S new book is not merely a remarkable novel. but is remarkable for a certain very odd and indefinable flavour • The Thirteenth Hunars in...

THE Thirteenth Hussars have been fortunate in their historian. Sir Mortimer Durand's great experience of Indian government and diplomacy has enabled him to produce a book which...

Davisson-Post. (Appleton. 8s. 6d. net.)—To those who like the species even' the mediocre in detective stories is often acceptable. The discoveries on the part of Sir Henry...

later. (John Murray. '711. 6d. net.)—Echoes of the Great War still haunt the minds of the makers of books all the world over. It is well that this should be so. And when they...

[Notice in this column does net necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Tun OCTOBER ManAzirrus.—Colonel John Ward opens the Nineteenth Century with some plain words about "...

MR. D. H. LAWRENCE'S WORK.• MB. D. H. LAWRENCE seems, at any rate for the present, to have come to the end of his poetical utterances. The novelist, and still more the...

and Grayson in starting a new series of reprints at a moderate price. The first six volumes of " Nash's Great Novel Library " are Almayer's Folly by Mr. Conrad, The Four...

6d. net.)—This little book, pleasantly written and well illustrated, deserves special commendation because it is not concerned with art galleries and churches. Nothing...

Society of America : H. Milford. 5s. net.)—This is an attractive little essay by a competent hand on " the first South American who has won for himself a permanent place in the...

30s. net.)—Miss King's local knowledge and enthusiasm have enabled her to collect much interesting information about the leading French families of New Orleans, which was...

Marine Biological Association at Plymouth contains an important Paper by Miss Marie Lebour on " The Larval and Post-larval Stages of the Pilchard, Sprat and Herring," based on...

devotes his brief opening chapter to the early developments of heraldry and to the Heralds' College, and then gives an outline of the art, with the principal terms used. Two-...

(Witherby. les. net.)—The author's knowledge and candour lend interest-to this-account of an arduous campaign. The German commander, as he- says, -made it his sole object to...

members of the Winchester College Archaeological Society in 1913 co-operated in producing a short history of the city and the school. They have now issued a second and much...

H. Myers's Essays Classical and Modern (Macmillan, 12s. net), formerly published in separate volumes. The opening essay on " Greek Oracles," with its characteristic touch of...

Stoughton. 12s. 6d. net.)—Lady Norah Bentinck, a niece by marriage of Count Godard Bentinck, stayed at Amerongen last year, saw the ex-Kaiser, and conversed with his...

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net.)—A number of Dominican friars and one sister have collaborated in this volume of essays, describing the work of the Friars Preachers in the seven centuries since they...