Fein Ireland and Mr. De Valera's reply were published on Monday. Mr. Lloyd George, writing on July 20th, invited Ireland " to take her place in the great association of free...

flatters him- self that as the British people shrink from another war, they will therefore be prepared to give the Southern Irish anything they want, even the head of North -...

" must allow for full recognition of the existing powers and privileges of the Parliament and Government of Northern Ireland, which cannot be abrogated except by their own...

definite and cynical declaration of the Sinn Fein intention to override the wishes of North-East Ulster, to detach her by compulsion from her true allegiance, and to deprive her...

to the welfare and safety of both Great Britain and Ireland, forming as they do the heart of the Commonwealth " :- " 1. It is essential that the Royal Navy alone should control...

N OBODY knows, when we go to press on Thursday, whether the bitter and defiant speech which Mr. De Valera delivered in Dublin on Wednesday is to be taken as a true index of the...

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

was " illusory." The Dominions enjoyed freedom because they were remote. " The most explicit guarantees, including the Dominions' acknowledged right to secede, would be...

Southern Irish want to do is to ignore the existing " partition " of Ireland into separate religious and racial camps, and to refuse any settlement which does not break the...

the Morning Post of Tuesday is advocating once again the policy of " the clean cut " as the solution of the Sinn Fein question. He agrees with us in thinking that if the...

present time in any other way so suitably as through a Re- public." " The Irish Republic as such was sanctioned by the will of the people." Their first duty was to make " the de...

Wednesday. Mr. De Valera repeated his strange operation of Tuesday, and strongly. advocated the rejection of the proposed terms even before the Dail had begun to discuss the...

returned on August 10th the reply of a narrow- minded fanatic. It began :- " On the occasion of our last interview I gave it as my judg- ment that Dail Eireann could not and...

reviewed the recent work of the Supreme Council. We have written elsewhere about the reference of the Silesian question to the League of Nations, and need not reproduce what Mr....

.Asquith moved the rejection of the Safeguarding of Industries Bill. Ile said that he did not know whether to regard it as a serious fiscal proposal or an ephemeral political...

letter which General Smuts, before leaving for South Africa, sent to Mr. De Valera on August 4th. General Smuts told the Sinn Fein leader that " for the present no solution...

that no British Government could compromise " on the claim that we should acknowledge the right of Ireland to secede from her allegiance to the King." Ireland must recognize the...

officious in arranging the conditions under which domestic servants shall accept employment. The Exchanges were paying doles to all candidates who refused to take a situation...

21, 1921; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 88: Bank Rate, 5i per cent., changedfrom 6 per cent. July 21, 1921; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 88: Thursday week, 88 ;...

the Business Committee which is to tell him how to effect " all possible reductions in the national expenditure on supply services " would consist of Sir Eric Geddes as...

is better to reach one's home standing up and dry than seated and wet, we see that there is something to be said on the other side. If the omnibus companies were allowed to...

which opened at Llandudno on Wednesday, was remark- able for a very frank speech by Mr. Herbert Smith, the miners' Acting President. Ho declared that the tactics of the miners'...

the Protocols is confirmed by this new and interesting discovery. The internal evidence, as we pointed out, was calculated to arouse grave suspicion as to the veracity of Nilus,...

source of the notorious Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, produced by a Russian official, Sergei Nilus, in 1905 as the secret programme of a band of Jewish conspirators...

the Untr-Secretary for Home Affairs, announced certain decisions in connexion with the traffic problem. After September 30th strap-hanging in motor-omnibuses and tramcars is to...

has passed through all its stages in the House of Commons, as it has given every onlooker an insight into the meaning of pro- tective legislation. The Bill is a subject of...

tHE IRISH IMBROGLIO. T HOUGH the text of the Government's offer to Sinn Fein, the Sinn Fein answer, Mr. Lloyd George's comments on the Sinn Fein reply, and the statement of Sir...

The worst of the drought has been confined to the usually fertile Volga provinces of the south-cast. The conditions have not been abnormal in the Ukraine, or further south, or...

1 1HE decision of the Supreme Council to refer the tangled question of Upper Silesia to the Council of the League of Nations is the most important event that has happened to the...

ORD KITCHENER'S great asset was that he had J the complete confidence of the country. He had been, on the whole, very successful in his wars and in his administrative work....

in the House on Friday, August 5th, that the Government contemplate an inquiry into the present state of our asylum treatment of the insane. Various criticisms have been made of...

T HE king is, by the derivation of his name, " the son," or special representative, " of the race " (cyn-ing, or crushed together into cyng ; -ing marking the " patronymic " in...

THAT BLESSED WORD "STABILIZATION." (To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The article which appeared in the Spectator of August 6th on " Some Elementary Economics " was much...

THE ARABS OF PALESTINE. [To TEE EDITOR OF TEE SPECTATOR. " ] Sia, — As you are aware, the Palestine Arab Delegation is in London. Its object is to make clear to the British...

[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.] "IN PRATO QUOD VOCATUR...

(To THE Emma or TEE " Svzorerme."1 515,—Will you extend to mo the indulgence of your columns to reinforce and emphasize your demand for the abolition of the Ministry of Labour...

THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —Mr. C. E. Pell is right about Rte. I did " fall into the very common error of attacking a book I had not read." I have misunderstood and misrepresented...

endorse your excellent article on Labour Exchanges (Spectator, August 13th), and only wish that the adherents of anti-waste would direct attention in Parliament to such matters?...

Sin,—With reference to the recent correspondence in your' columns on the future of Red Cross clinics, I think you will be interested to see the following letter from Sir Joseph...

SPECTATOR.") Sin,—I must needs confine myself to the statements made by Lord Sydenham in his letters and cannot deal here with the unquoted utterances of those whose testimony...

Pro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—As an inhabitant of the borough of Poplar for nearly twenty years, I read with interest your article on " Poplar and the Rates" in the...

[To THE EDITOR Of THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Few readers of Mr. Arnold Bennett's novels can fail to have noticed the habitual use of the word "naught." The word is, no doubt, in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEC11208.") SIR,—Although the owners of country houses in England will deeply feel the necessity for turning their loved places into public buildings,...

or THE " SPECTATOR."] Ste,—your article in the Spectator of July 16th entitled President Harding's Invitations" is very interesting to the American reader, and invites certain...

to the examples given by your corre- spondent. The word ingens is Virgirs maid-of-all-work. Matthew Arnold was fond of " moderato " and " waste." Wordsworth so often repeated...

THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—The enclosed copy of a letter by a member of the United States Senate, which has been forwarded to me from America, is of interest as giving an unbiased...

SPECTATOR."] S111,—As bearing upon your discussion of the use of the word "Commonwealth " in relation to Virginia, I venture to quote a passage in President Harding's address at...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] . SIR,—For some weeks your articles have shown an increasing tendency to be less than fair to our ally Japan in your desire to strengthen...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I feel I cannot let "Churchman's" letter, published in your issue of July 30th, go by without comment. He compares the state of the...

(To THE EDITOR. OF TIE " SPECTATOR."] Stn, —The following extract from n. letter received a few days ago may interest you and your readers :- "When we were driving down Frant...

THE RIVER HOUSE. FROM tower that seemed in sunset living stone, From shining tower and happy glowing tree, From russet roofs with the last glories burned, Out to the watermeads...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR2] Sia,—Your interesting article on " Badger Ways " reminds me of an amusing incident which occurred about fifty years ago. Two of my brothers,...

Sta,—All naturalists will be delighted with your excellent article on "Badger Ways" signed by Mr. Douglas Gordon. His hypothesis as to animals generally possessing a sixth...

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

lettere submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelop! , are sent he will do his best to return contralutiont in ease et rei ea i° 1 $' Poems should b • addressed I o...

"THE TRUMP CARD" AT THE STRAND THEATRE. (Adapted from the French by Arthur Wimperis.) AT last London has got a really witty and amusing farce, acted with cleverness and humour....

THE TRAGEDY OF LORD KITCHENER.* Loan ESW4a is one of those amateurs destined to make the professional man of letters despair. Lord Esher has no doubt written countless memoranda...

WE are grateful to Mr. Peacock for his English prose selections. They are exceedingly well made, and they go a long way towards being comprehensive. Assuming, which we may...

Tax man who can write with grace and humour about so apparently tedious a subject as the duties of a trustee is a rare bird, but we have caught him in this little book. The...

NEVER more than at the present time, when a heady ferment is working among mankind and threatening with destruction thoughts and ideals and the product of centuries of struggle,...

PROPBAT has produced a very fine hook on the Russian Ballet. It consists of a short history of the enterprise, an account of all the principal painters who have worked for it, a...

feel like the perplexed peasant in the fable of the man, the boy, and the ass. There are at least a dozen exponents of as many absolutely incompatible methods of education, and...

MEMOIRS OF A MIDGET.* Tim writer who is familiar only with Mr. de la 3fare's poetical work will expect a great deal from a full-length novel with so alluringly suitable a title...

SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF MODERN POETRY.-11I. WE have brought evidence to show, first, that the modern realization of the dangers of unquestioned systems of...

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[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] The July number of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, Manchester (Longmans, 2s. net.), which is,...

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