MHE condition of Ireland is worse than ever. While the raids on private houses are not fewer, the assassinations in- crease, and there has been a special outbreak of murderous...

the crowd. A man and a woman in the coped were killed and another man was hit in the wrist. A soldier, according to this account, had already been shot in the chest and others...

Sinn Fein story is that the soldiers provoked and assaulted a crowd of civilians, and ended up by firing upon them and killing two persons. The truth, according to the Dublin...

Sir Edward Carson for the part he has played in agreeing to the acceptance of the six-county area. He is accused of having altered what was "unalterable "—of having, in fact,...

it was a reprisal ; and certainly, after the awful provocation which has been given to loyalists in Ireland, it would not be surprising if there should be reprisals. But, on the...

paraded in uniform to do honour to the memory of Mr. MacCur- tain, and a large part of Dublin went into mourning. An resh correspondent tells us that the Municipal buildings in...

the course of an inquiry which had nothing to do with the murder, and which was made in ignorance of the fact that murder had been committed. The visit became the pretext for an...

to him, but when stamped and addressed 4 tiveloPes are sent he will do his best to refsern contrieutiens in ease of rejection.

the Indian Moslem f aetion which is urging that the Sultan of Turkey, -as Caliph, must not be deprived of any of his territories. The delegates told the Prime Minister that...

and told them-plainly-that their new demand-for higher-wages was exorbitant. The industry as a whole' was losing motley. Tho exceptionally high prices obtained for coal exported...

the Turkish settlement was admirable. We can only hope that he will adhere to them, despite Mr: 'Montagu and the India Office. The Moslem agitators in India are using very...

from - two vacant seats-, gave the Smith African Party - 40 seats, the Unionists 25,,Labourd10 and-theNationalists 43, with three Independent Members friendly - -to the...

week. It acorns clear that the military and Mon- archist faction, headed by Dr. Kapp but really directed -by General Ludendorff, has failed for the time being. President Ebert...

failed to come to- terms with him. He had offered them an increase of eighteeepenoe a day,-to date from April 1st/ whereas the Federation delegates-at a Conference on Wednesday...

accept the warnings of which they have had plenty. They-have arrogated to themselves aristocratic privileges in the world of Labour. Every- body, whether a manual worker or a...

centred of the wilder -spirits, revolted -against the National . Federation on Monday and declared for separation. These hotheads do not want the rich profits on the South Wales...

largely upon -the attitude of the United States to Europe. This again means that there will be much earivaseing-of the relations of Great Britain and America, In brief, we are...

of a combination between Capital and Labour. The London Electric Railways Bill had been delayed because the London Members thought that it authorized an excessive increase of...

a resolution on Thursday week expressing the opinion that "payment by results with proper safeguards" was "worthy of consideration of the Unions Affiliated, to the Federation."...

Dr. Diggle, the Bishop of Carlisle, who was a giant among the leaders of the Broad Church Party. During his twenty years of labour as a clergyman in Liverpool, during his...

be perpetuated throughout the generations, and if it be admitted that the teaching of such a lesson in stone is not only desirable butlikely to be effectual, was the story of...

they kept cutting down the rates of pieoe-work The inevitable result was that the workmen, in order to protect themselves, either refused to work on piece rates or introduced...

George Frampton's striking statue which has been erected in St.. Martin's Place to the memory of Miss Edith Ca.velL There is nothing niggling about Sir George Frampton's work....

twelve years' service as Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, was appointed Minister of Labour. Sir Robert Horne, having achieved success at the Ministry of Labour, was...

in the House of Lords on Wednesday by a majority of 93 to 45. The Lord Chancellor, in accordance with his promise of .a fortnight ago, explained that the Governmeet would leave...

of Mrs. Humphry Ward at the ago of sixty-eight. As the granddaughter of Arnold of Rugby, the daughter of Thomas Arnold. and the niece of Matthew Arnold, she came of a good...

5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 88; Thursday week, 871; a year ago, 95.

THE PRIME MINISTER IN SEARCH OF A PARTY. M R. LLOYD GEORGE is in search of a party. That is the meaning of all the rumours and counter- rumours, alarums and excursions, of the...

r"HE articles and letters about the Plumage Trade which we have published during the past few months have done something, we hope, to swell the tide of feeling which is now...

T ' public has Misfit been given an account coinplled from official sources of what the German spy activity in Britain during the war actually amounted to of this generation...

W E have long wondered why Montenegro, alone among all the' belligerents, should have lost her Independence as the result of the war. Many new States have emerged from the wreck...

W E shall never come to an end of fruitless speculations about Shakespeare. The wonder is that his tomb is yet inviolate. No curious fanatic has disturbed his dust in the hope...

W ESTCOTT, speaking of the mysticism of St. John's Gospel, made the remark that Christianity would never be complete until the thinkers of the East had made their con- tribution...

"T DON'T suppose you've remembered," said Amanda as we sat at dinner, "that the clocks must be altered to-night." "It had not escaped me," I replied. "Well, anyhow" (I don't...

[To THE EDITOR OF - THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—At first s'g'it there may seem to be little connexion between the recent rejection of the Versailles Treaty by the United States...

[TO Tar EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") trying to account for the commonness of poor physique you write: "It is not modern civilization that we are up against, it is ancient...

(To TEE Emma or THE " liteeersroa."l Sia,—The latest Bill for the better government of Ireland will probably soon become law. And then what will happen ? In the six-county...

[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.] TEE GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND:...

[To THE EDITOR OF TELE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the recent case of Beard before the House of Lords six counsel, including both Law Officers and one unbeneficed K.C., appeared for...

THE "SPECTATOR."] Pitton-Turbervill regards as unfair my comparison of "drunk "convictions in Carlisle (where the decrease between 1914 and 1918 was 71 per cent.) with the...

[To THE EDITOR OF TICE "SPECTATOR"] SIR, — It is time for Englishmen and Englishwomen to p.rotest against a tyranny, all the more dangerous because it is insidious, and that is...

OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR —As I have used the Revised Version of the Bible in church for the past eighteen years, I should like to be allowed to make some reply to your article...

"SPECTATOR."] ,SIR, —Your article upon "The Limits of Press Power" in your issue of March 6th deals with a question which greatly interested Mr. Gladstone, who used to balance...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] propose to publish a Memoir of the late Duke of Norfolk,. and would be very grateful if any person having any letters of interest, or any...

have - read the letters on " A Hybrid ?" in the Spectator with interest, and think your readers may be interested in the following case of albinism. While stationed at Pembroke...

THE " SPECTATOR."] Sza,s-The letter from Mr. Deacon in your issue of Mardi 20th is of great interest to the members of my Federation, as the heavy chemical trade is in an...

"SPECTATOR.") SIR , — Steps are being taken at Grahamstown, Cape of Good Hope, and other centres to celebrate the centenary of the arrival from the United Kingdom of the notable...

[To sus EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SI R , — I have read with much interest an article in the Spectator of January 31st, " A Vegetable Terror." This is written from the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, — The Constantinople question is one of great difficulty. Let us hope that it will be decided without any further inter- vention of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR , — In your issue of December 13111 last a reviewer w a s kindly disposed towards a little book called Tales of Talbot House, which has...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR.") Sia,—There is a great shortage of good schoolmasters in South Africa; but sentiment and theory prevent the importation of men to fill vacant...

[TO TIM EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—My long experience as a publisher inclines me - to rate rather highly the enclosed effort of a little nephew of mine, John Raalewood...

charming story of Lord John Russell and the hairdresser must, fortunately for Mr. Punch, have become public property, for I well remember the enclosed development-with an...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." ] SIR,—We were on our summer holiday and were playing stump- cricket in the stone-walled lane that led to our farmhouse : our bat a stick,...

[To THE EDITOR OF ME ". SPECTATOR.") &,—Mr. Massingham asks if there are any records of the wheatear in the South of London. J. A. Bucknill in his Birds of Surrey (1900) says...

(To roe Boer= or THE " SPECTATOR."1 had hoped that -Colonel Mel-villa's letter in year issue of 'March 6th might have moved a well-informed -reader to part-with -some...

" SPECTATOR...1 Si,—Had not forty-odd years of reading in the Spectator put me in wholesome and respectful awe of its personality there is that in last week's ieaue that might...

THE OLD ROAD. How short the road with you, my friend, How short the road with you— The hills and vales, the heights, the dales And each unfolding view; For side by side and...

LORD GREY OF THE REFORM' BILL.* It was a happy chance that caused the authorized Life of the second Earl Grey to be left half finished sixty years ago, and that induced the late...

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or initials, or with - a - pseudonym,. or- are marked " Communicated," the_Editor must not-necessarily he Add to be in agreement with the views therein expressed. or with the...

COLONEL Buenaav's official history of the South African Forces in Europe is an excellent book. It is to be welcomed both as a first-rate military narrative and as a record of...

carefully will deny that there are certain difficulties in the way of believing that William Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon was the author of the plays traditionally assigned...

Francis" calls up a vision of a sort of Divine child who talked to birds as a child might talk, half fancifully and half really believing that they understood him. But this was...

WE cannot say of .Mr. Harold Spender that he is one of those who "imagine themselves writing a Life when they exhibit a chronological series of actions and preferments " ; but...

WE can thoroughly recommend the story of the Scottish Women's Hospitals in France, Serbia, Russia, Rumania, and at Salonika to any of our readers whose war work had anything to...

WELL-TO-DO ARTRUR-t Anxnun Ianamaron. the boy hero of Mr. Pett Ridge's new novel, is unsympathetically described by one of the characters in the story as "one of these jumped-up...

NEW VOICES.* "SUPPOSE and suppose," the poet has often thought, echoing Mr. De La Mare, "that twice as many people again should suddenly take to reading poetry. Suppose and...

Blackwell. 2s. 6d. net.)—Excel - lent minor verse.—Poems : In Time - of War. In Tim: of Peace. By C. Kennett Burrow. (Coffins. 5s. net.)—The poem upon a little French girl,...

6d. net.)—A series of sketches of the exciting adventures of an American woman doctor, who is also a missionary, in China. There is plenty of local colour, and the escapes of...

Laurie. 25s. net.)—The Marquesas have fascinated many a traveller. Mr. O'Brien, who describes the islands and their people in this attractive and well-illustrated, book, came...

Clark. 2 vols. (Houghton Mifflin. 52s. net.)—In these portly volumes the life of the well-known American historian and philosopher is told at length. He was born at Middletown,...

Jackson. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mrs. Fawcett has written her personal reminiscences of the campaign for woman's suffrage from 1911 to 1918. She is entitled to rejoice over the success of...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent rertew.i Coal Mining and the Coal Miner. By H. F. Bulman. (Methuen. 15s. net.)—Mr. Bulman, who has been a...

(Hurst and Blackett. 24s. net.)—The German com- mander in East Africa has written a spirited account of his experiences. He admits that he expected war, perhaps in 1914, and was...

A. Hamilton Thompson. (Cambridge Univer- sity Press. 4s. net.)—It was a happy idea to reprint the portion of Chateaubriand's memoirs which describes his life as a Royalist exile...

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Cape Town : Specialty Press. London : Hodder and Stoughton. 30s. net.)—Mr. Nathan, a South African by birth and a member of the Transvaal Provincial Council, has written an...

(English Association. la.)—In this address Professor Burnet illustrates - the value of Greek studies by discussing Shakespeare's lines on music, beginning :— " There's not the...

E. Milton. (A. and C. Black. 25s. net..)— Mr. Palmer's sixty careful drawings, reproduced in colour, recall pleasantly some of the most famous houses and views in the Home...

Royal Cruising . Club Journal. The new number is not filled with logs of cruises by members of the Club, as the pre-war Journals used to be, but it is nevertheless an extremely...

Pitman and Sons. Cs. net.)—Captain Pollard has supple- mented his well-known book on the revolver by this systematic, little essay on the automatic pistol. We are not surprised...

a sixpenny Catalogue of Maps, with many• index-maps, which will surprise most people by its comprehensiveness, Before the war the War Office cartographers were improving...

history may be glad to know of a graceful memoir of the his- torian written by his friend Dr. George Macdonald and re- printed from the Proceedings of the British Academy (H....

6th net) is the old Literary Year Book in a new form. Most of the space is now given to short biographies of authors and journalists, but some of the legal information that is...

Scott. 25s. net.)—This is a new edition of a book long out of print. The author has revised it and brought his annotated list of makers up to date. He is an enthusiast for his...