press on Thursday, are as follows :- Panel Pro-Treaty Panel Anti-Treaty Labour . Independents .. As more than three-quarters of the new Parliament have been elected, the...

set to work to try to reverse the result of the elections by means of terror. Here are some remarks made by Mr. De Valera on Wednesday :- " The results seem, indeed, a triumph...

It is provided in the preamble that if any provision of the Constitution or any amendment to it is in any respect repugnant to the Treaty, such provision or amendment shall be...

• T HE Irish elections have resulted in an undoubted victory for the pro-Treaty forces. In spite of the act of the Dublin coalition in depriving the voters so far as possible of...

committed last Saturday in Armagh, when five men and a woman were massacred. The victims were Protestant farmers, and among the killed were a husband and wife, each about...

the Irish situation on Thursday, June 15th, as had been expected. He explained that there were two reasons for postponement ; one was that the Irish elections were about to be...

anti-Treaty. In Dublin City and County only ono opponent of the Treaty has been elected among 18 members. In the contested constituencies the Labour candidates, most of whom...

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

journey on Wednesday and was received at Plymouth, all along his route, and above all in London, with an affectionate regard which was remarkable even in this land of notably...

on the house of the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland on Monday. Happily, the Prime Minister and Lady Craig were not in their house at the time, but what a reflection is the...

elected by adult suffrage for both sexes under Proportional Representation. The Senate is to be composed of citizens who have " done honour to the nation by reason of useful...

current Socialistic theory, is that the Parliament may establish " Functional or Vocational Councils representing branches of the social and economic life of the nation." The...

war without the assent of the Imperial Parliament, " save in the case of actual invasion." As regards the Judiciary, there is to be an appeal from the Irish Supreme Court to the...

Free State is " a, co-equal member of the Empire." All powers of government are " derived from the people." Men and women are to have equal rights as citizens. Though the "...

the alleged " Expelled Belfast Workers," a well-trusted correspondent of the Spectator, resident in the North of Ireland, sends us the following :— " I have had this first hand...

in the Palace of Peace, under the presidency of the Dutch Foreign Minister. The delegates agreed upon the composition of the Commiasion, with three sub-commissions for debts,...

in health and his despotic power was to be exercised by a trium- virate, including the notorious Kameneff. The Bolshevik agency in London has, however, denied these reports and...

President in the world, and that he is chosen, if one may venture on a rather paradoxical use of the word, under the best system in the world. Our Crowned Presidents succeed one...

Wilson has been murdered near his house in Eaton Place. Though we are not informed yet of the details of the crime, it would be absurd for us to pretend that there can be any...

on the methods by which the American Government are patiently trying to raise the standard of administration in Cuba. The-Cuban Republic is an independent State, having its...

Mr. Rutenberg, which, he said, would give a Jewish citizen wide powers over the Arabs. Lord Balfour expressed his surprise that though the Palestinian policy of the Government...

sweeps away many picturesque survivals of mediaeval land tenure, was read a third time in the House of Commons on Friday, June 19th. The Solicitor-General said that there had...

his maiden speech in that House, and the debate was followed by a significant defeat of the Government. Lord Islington moved that the acceptance of the Palestine Mandate by the...

policy is wise in itself—which we, of course, do not admit—it should not be altered because the murderers have succeeded in their plans. They have long been as ready to kill Sir...

If, as the news from Canton indicates, Sun Yat-sen, the President of the Southern Republic, has collapsed, He had ordered his commander-in-chief, General Chen, to attack the...

a day for a debate on the question of the Honours List. He rejected the proposal that a Joint Committee should review the recommendations made by the various departments for the...

June 15, 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 991; Thursday week, 991; a year ago, 871.

THE MOTHER'S ELDEST DAUGHTER. A T the present time Britain is having the honour of entertaining two very distinguished Americans, both of them lawyers. One is Mr. Taft,...

be able to feel optimistic about Irish affairs base their hopefulness on two obvious facts—the comparatively satisfactory nature of the Constitution and the successes of the...

(SHE recent meeting in London between M. Poincare 1 and Mr. Lloyd George and other members of the Government gave several clues to how our relations with Prance ought to be...

W HEN sketching the feathered outlaws, I have always endeavoured to point out their redeeming qualities rather than adopt the hopeless policy of trying to refute well-founded,...

become popular for a time, and again sink out of notice. Men admire women and women admire men of a certain type of counten- ance for, perhaps, a whole generation....

INVESTMENT STOCKS EASIER. CONFLICTING MARKET FACTORS—THE LOWER BANK RATE— EUROPEAN CHAOS — AN ECONOMIC CONUNDRUM—INCOME-TAX SUGGESTION. (To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."]...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sie,- - Section I. of the "Draft Constitution of the Irish Free State," as published on Friday, June 16th, relates to what are called "...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more eliective, than those which fill treble the space.] THE JACOBY A_ND TRUE CASES....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Had my informant been the type one of your correspond- ents evidently assumed him to be, or had I only seen the account of what...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I should be pleased if you can find space in your columns to insert the following letter, received the other day, as I know the...

of the Truth About Ireland League, I am receiving an increasing number of most piteous appeals for help from ruined Protestant and loyalist refugees from Southern Ireland. The...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sirt,—There is one name which ought, I think, to be brought before the public mind in Great Britain to-day. It is the name of Richard...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR:] Stn, — By the sudden death of Mr. Sanderson humanity loses a gallant and far-seeing champion, and all we Oundelians, past or present, an...

(To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —Having had the privilege of assisting Mr. Chance during some of his recent investigations of the habits of the cuckoo, I would like to...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR. Sts,—Is not the difficulty which the writer of the article on " Ways of the Water-hen " in your issue of June 17th finds in the naming of the...

fTo THE EDITOR 01 THE " SPECTATOR."] Ste,—Surely your correspondent, Captain R. F. Hinckes, before writing his letter to the Spectator of June 17th, had not read the pledge...

rather surprised to see in the article on the moor hen in your last issue, by Mr. Douglas Gordon, that there is still some difficulty in understanding how the bird came to be...

(To TEE BDITOR or THE "'Specrrros.'7 STR,—May I call your attention to an error in your review of Four Famous Mysteries in your issue of June 10th? Cole- man was not a priest or...

(To THE MDITOE OP THE " SPEETATOR..1 Sm,—We have been consulted by Mr. P. Bligh Bond, of 39 York Terrace, N.W. 1, respecting the defamatory statements on pp. 723-724 of your...

THE POET AND THE STARS. STABS, I would praise you, Over Lowery Hill. Stars, I would praise you, Who have but any will And little bag of words. " Do you love a buzzing gnat ?...

TWO COMEDIES " THE DOVER ROAD," BY A. A. MELNTE, AT THE HAYMARKET; "L'ILLUSIONISTE," BY SACRA GUITRY, AT THE PRINCES. Mn. A. A. Mnasra and M. Bache Guitry might very well stand...

CLASPED in these quiet hills the valley Iies- As if the fingers of a giant Should ring a jade-green cup, brimmed with blue air. . . . 0 through what aeons now hath slept This...

writer's 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...

ANY subscriptions sent to us, great or small, will he acknow- ledged in our columns and 'at once sent onto the C.O.S. Cheques should be made out to The Spectator " and crossed...

letters .submittsd to him, but:when.stamped and addressed envelopes are ee-nt /misfit do his best Jo. return contributions incase of 4-ejection. Poems should be addressed to the...

SIR WALTER RALEIGH'S LAST BOOK.* EVERY lover of English literature and especially those who had, as the present writer had, the privilege of knowing Sir Walter Raleigh, will...

June 27th. — AEOLIAN HALL. ()liana Madrigal Society. Elizabethan madrigals and modern part. songs . . . . Rt is time that some modern poet sang in verse the charms of Ude...

Rembrandt is a misfortune ; to miss his lecture on Poussin at the Mortimer Hall, Mortimer Street, Upper Regent. Street, at 8.30 on Juno 26th, is unnecessary.

COMEDY.—Quarantine • • 8.30-2.30 [Mr. Owen Nares in the usual comedy.] DALY'S.—The Lady of the Rose .. 8.15-2.15 [For those who like musical comedy and the novels of Ethel M....

twigs and peltbletl he collected llogarths, Canalettos, Turners, Lawreaces and Reynolds'.] THE INDE:TENDENT GALLERY, 7A, GRAFTON STREET. [Jean Marchand, one of the greatest...

Tux co-operative method of writing history, which has been adopted very successfully by the Cambridge University Press for modern history, for the history of English literature...

THE question of the Dodecanese, one of the many nationalist problems that troubled the peacemakers in Paris, has caused Mr. Volonakis, a competent scholar, to write the history...

Ma. ROBERT Nrcnors's play is a good deal better than the preface would lead one to suppose. I have a very special grievance against that preface—the grievance of those who...

Church History would probably not indicate the particular denomination, or Church, of which the historian was a member ; it would perhaps leave it an open question whether he...

THE philosophers seem quite content to go on writing books on aesthetics although they have to begin by recording the fact that all former writers disagree with each other and...

populations of twenty thousand or over have for a dozen years had power to insist that all new building should conform to a pre-arranged lay-out plan approved and adopted by the...

The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method "—is, as its sub-title states, "A Study of Bergson's Attack on Intellectualism." " I have not...

THERE is some truth, and not a little exaggeration, in Mr. George A. Greenwood's England To-day, which is described as " a social study of our time " (G. Allen and Unwin, fis....

Ix the formidable series of volumes planned by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on the economic and social history of the world war, there has just appeared A...

TWO BOOKS OF SHORT STORIES.* READERS of Heritage and The Dragon in Shallow Waters will probably be a little disappointed by the stories in The Heir,' though to those who have...

WE commend The Place Names of Middlesex, by Mr. J. E. B. Gover (Longmans, 5s. net), as an interesting and scholarly little book. Mr. Gover fortunately adopts the sound method...

INotice.in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review] The Leinster Regimental Annual, 1921-22, edited by Lieut.-Col. F. E. Whitton (Aldershot : Gale and...

A COLLECTION OF NEGRO FOLK RHYMES.* ALL popular and traditional poetry needs the voice of an - interpreter. It is not till verse begins to have an individual • A Collsetbrn of...

a series of enticing quotations on the cover of his little book which afford an exceedingly appropriate dish of hors d'oeuvres for the light repast he is about to put before us....

value of Mr. Macmillan's little book is shown by the fact that it has already reached a fourth edition. The author, who was a surveyor of taxes, tries to show taxpayers how they...

Revolt, 1922. By Brutus (Johannesburg : Central News Agency. la).—This thoughtful and well written pamphlet sets out clearly the underlying causes of the Rand troubles and the...

21s. net.)—It is uncommonly interesting Excursions in Victorian Bibliography. By Michael Sadleir. (Chaundy and Cox. 21s. net.)—It is uncommonly interesting . to find a young...

net.) This charming little book by an accomplished Spanish scholar and traveller fulfils its purpose by making the reader desire eagerly to visit Galicia. Mr. Bell has a good...

6d. net.)—This learned and die- passionate history of Holland from the Burgundian domination down to our own times was much needed. Mr. Edmundson is one of the few English...

net.)—General Denikin's memoirs of the Russian Revolution cover the short but memorable period from March to August, 1917, and end with his arrest. He describes dearly, and on...

8s. 6d. net.)—Cardinal Gasquet has collected in this volume a number of stray essays, on mediaeval St. Albans, St. Augustine's, Canterbury, just before the Reformation, a...

(Clarendon Press. 4s. 6d. net.) Coplas sin Nombre de Autor. (Same publisher, Is. net.)—The accomplished Taylorian teacher of Spanish at Oxford has published two little books of...

5s. net.)—A slight but entertaining study. Mr. Dark gives a clear synopsis of each of Mr. Wells's novels, and is very diligent in comparing Mr. Wells with almost every one of...

(Whitcombe and Tombs).—Mr. Barr, who is the chief librarian of Auckland, has written a careful account of the foundation and development of the city, with much local detail. The...

By Edward Porritt (Clarendon Press. 12s. 6d. net).—This substantial work is a careful and accurate account of the successive stages by which, during two generations before the...

History of England and the British Empire (Rivington, 8s. 6d. net), issued in 1915, has reached a second edition, to which the author has added a tabular summary of the War and...