T HE prospects for the Irish Treaty are darker than ever. Mr. Collins and Mr. De Valera have come to an unex- pected agreement whioh looks much more like a surrender of Mr....

the Northern area by the I.R.A. irregulars was suddenly and with obvious premeditation carried to a still more extreme point. The catalogue of destruction is without parallel...

and we must make it very plainly. The British Government have given arms, munitions and transport freely to the Free Staters. If they basely refuse all other forms of help to...

West Belfast in the Northern Parliament, was shot dead. Sir James Craig issued an appeal to tho public to refrain from retaliation. While, however, most rightly denouncing...

arrested, and when we go to press on Thursday the number of arrests has -risen to 350. Speaking in the Northern Parliament on Tuesday, Sir James stated thatafter his most...

leader of the South, whether an adherent of the Republican Party or of the Free State Party, has denounced the Terror by the irregulars in Ulster. -- Mr. Griffith, it is true,...

differences, revolts by nominal supporters, are all sure signs of disintegration. But the fall would be sudden if the Government were guilty of the crowning iniquity of letting...

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

May 19th. In his farewell speech Mr. Lloyd George described the Conference as " one of the most remarkable ever held in the history of thesworld," end he addeththat it would be...

for the City of London in- the hy-election held on Friday, May 19th. Mr. Grenfell 10;114' votes, while his opponent, Sir T. Vansittart Bowater, standing • as an inde- pendent...

much hope for the Hague Conference if they continued to conduct their policy in the spirit of their memorandum of May -11th. In - his opinion Russia was running a terrible-risk-...

dispute may be settled. The. Amalgamated.Engineeiu3s Union. whose executive is hampered by sharp divisions between moder- ates and Communists, unhappily rejected the employers'...

Times of Tuesday that, owing to the success of the Washing- ton Conference and 'to the rare statesmanship of Lord Balfour, " we are nearer than we have ever been in my...

retort :— "- To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. Sir,—My attention has been called .to the following statement in theleading article of the Manchester. Guardian issue of...

3rd last has -been-repeatedly affirmed from Warsaw, Riga and elsewhere, and as often denied from Moscow and 'Berlin. The Times last Saturday- announced that it had' confirmation...

between-the extremes of adoration and hostility. He either:hugs or he- strikes ; . and :both.manifestations .are. pro- bably related. " And-all men-kill the thing theylove," We...

week reversed its former decision in favour of .Lady Rhondda's claim to a writ of summons. Why the Committee should have decided one way in March and the other way in May, and...

a: second: reading in: the House of Commona on Friday, May 19th, by .161 votes to .82. It •would :require a trade union, before spending money out politics, to hold a ballot in...

Guardians grant relief in many cases where the head of the. family' is in receipt of more than the: standard wages. of £3 4s.. a week; for manual labour. The weekly incomes of...

have been appearing in. the :Morning Post dining the last. week or ten days, have not attracted more attention, for they are inimitably vivid sketches. of Paris at one of the...

the Supplementary Estimate of £575,000 to provide during,three months for the teachers' pensions, which the House last week apparently declined to make contributory. He then...

Hebrew Prophet, but one has always been haunted by-wonder as to what Paris really looked like—what it meant to the - ordinary man to look at Paris when' the curtain that went...

was asked by the Minister of Health to inquire- into the. expenditure of the Guardians in Poplar. His report, which was published last -week, shows what Labour politicians...

Apr. 13, 1922.; ,15 per cent. War Loan was • on Thursday, lig; -Thursday week, 99j ; a year ago, 881.

• THE STATE OF IRELAND AND THE ACT OF UNION. T HE situation in Ireland grows worse and worse. A great part of the South of Ireland is in the grip of civil war of the worst...

write about the past and that what is wanted is some suggestion for a future policy in Ireland. We are willing to try our hand. In the first place, it must now be considered...

BONAR LAW'S speech on Monday at the dinner of the Associated Franco-British Societies was excellent because it fulfilled the double function of being very friendly and very...

E have dealt in the preceding article with the condition of Ireland and what has come of the repeal of the Act of Union under Mr. Lloyd George's unhallowed Treaty of Civil War....

by Mr. Frank Hodges, E desire to draw special attention to an eirenicon the Secretary of the 'Miners' Federation,. in. -the. shape of two articles .contributed, to the...

I N days before motor-cars, wealth was playfully described as a margin for unlimited hansoms. The present writer would describe it as a margin of ready- money to replace small...

letters of the much-maligned John Grahame of Claverhouse, the " Bloody Clovers" of Covenanting hagiologies. My letter is of some interest as being dated from York on October...

REPARATION PROBLEMS. - lux. PARIS CONFERENCE.--uaEERFUL MARKETS.— RISE IN RAILWAYS.—IMPENDING INVESTMENT STOCK PROSPECTS. [To THE EDITOR OP THE SPZOTATOR. Sin,—The City is...

[To vim EDITOR OF Ti H " SpEcTATort."] Sia,—When anyone desires to give instances showing how bad either side in Ireland is, no difficulty is experienced, for there is no lack...

[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.] THE EMBARGO ON CANADIAN...

much to find the Spectator coming round to the view that Canadian store cattle should be allowed free entry. Your views on questions affecting agriculture and rural interests...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sra, — Will you permit me to make one criticism on your valuable and important article " Fact and Fiction at Genoa "? I find in it such...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECT►TOR."I SIR,—The Spectator frequently calls attention to the desperate situation of Protestants and loyalists in Ireland, but the London daily...

THE " SPECTATOR."] Sts, What Mr. Lloyd George can gain by negotiating with the Russian Soviet Government is very difficult to see! What they want to get is easy to see. They...

[To raz EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR- " ] SIR,—It was quite a dramatic episode when, on February 17th, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales laid the foundation- stone of the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—Your March 25th number had a letter under the head of "President Lincoln on Deflation" which implied that the private bankers of...

[To TEE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—We hear a great deal nowadays of alleged pledges and breaches of faith. Is it not high time that Parliament should protect its own...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. " ] would like the courtesy of a brief reply to the recent letter entitled " The Blot on the Budget." Your correspondent criticizes the...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—For years I have had to put up with ignorant stories about me and my opinions. Whenever a man wants to do or to say or to write...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sia,—The members of the Toronto Public Library Dramatic Club read " Tarn's" essay on "Fiction and the Stage " (Spectator. April 1st) with...

[To THE EDITOR. or THI " SPECrATOI."1 went into the Tate Gallery this morning, and there I found an official lecturer talking to visitors about the pictures. I joined the group...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Probably not many of your readers realize the great destruction of trees which is going on in all parts of the country. The necessities...

[To VHS EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."' Sia,—There are other disfigurements in country places besides advertisement boards, and unless those in authority will take the matter up,...

[To raft Marron or THE " SesersTtS."l Sia,—While the cause of Christian reunion, with which you have often expressed a generous sympathy, seems to make but little visible...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The Spectator of May 6th, in its review of Professor Brander Matthews's Essays on English, seems to attribute the phrase " bonesiry "...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPEarAros."3 612,—May I express pleasure in your recent article on " The Raven in the. West "P Mr. Baring Gould is correct in saying that such birds, or...

THE " SPECrATOR."1 SIR,—The League of Arts gave the first regular series of open-air entertainments in Hyde Park last year. The experiment is to be repeated every Saturday this...

OF THE " SPECTATOR."] of us who are in touch with teachers in German universities are aware of the difficulties they are now suffering through their inability to buy English...

IN THEIR GLAD PLAYING TIME. Ls their glad playing time, like vrindflovvers down the billowy • April blowing, The children run where the grass grows deep. Bewitched in the...

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...

CHARITY ORGANIZATION SOCIETY FUND, ANY subscriptions sent to us, great or email, will be acknow- ledged in our columns and at once sent on to the C.O.S. Cheques should be made...

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...

BLAKE AND GRAY.* THIS is a strange, topsy-turvy book in which the poet of supreme accomplishment is illustrated by one of the Bolsheviks of the figurative arts—a mystical,...

TUE STAGE SOCIETY : " AT THE GATES OF THE KINGDOM," A PLAY IN FOUR ACTS BY KNUT HAMSUN. intE Stage Society has done well in giving us a play by the famous Norwegian author...

May 28th.—ALBERT HALL.—M. Heifetz •. 41,a 3.0 [Le Paganinl de nos ]on's.] May 30th.—QUEEN'S HALL—Mr. Joseph Hislop .. 3.0 [An admirable programme—since it does not wholly...

EVERYMAN, HAMPSTEAD.—Hedd,a Gabkr — 8.15-2.30 [Mrs. Patrick Campbell ah that most detestable woman.] AroLLo.—Trilby (oomsnencing May 30th) [" Were delighted,' said Little...

NATIONAL GALLERY (Room XX.). [No. 2,615, Mary, Queen of Soda, by an unknown French artist of the Fifteenth Century, Is a most attractive picture that should not In overlooked.]...

Loeb volumes, three Latin and two Greek, include the two final instalments of Professor H. E. Butler's admirable Quintilian. 1 These fully maintain the high standard of their...

VOLTAIRE, Racine, Dr. Johnson, Blake, Beddoes, Lady Hester Stanhope and Mr. Creevey—such are the subjects of Mr. Lytton Strachey's new book of essays. It is a delightful...

ME second Mount Everest expedition sent out by the Royal Geographical Society and the Alpine Club is now in Tibet, preparing to try to reach the summit, just over 29,000 feet...

THOSE two brilliant golfers, Mr. Roger and Miss Joyce Wethered, brother and sister, have written a capital book about the game. They both have ideas and express them. selves...

his book with a striking summitry of the Gothic Age, for the spirit of that time was the inspiration of the Flemish painters. This was something entirely different from the...

on the practice of education is rapidly becoming eccentric, when each new theorist advocates the latest and most ingenious device for tampering with &child's mind which modern...

Six FREDERICK TREVES is by now expert in the art of writing' pleasantly about pleasant places. His new volume on The Lake of Geneva (Cassell, 25s. net), illustrated with a...

WAS it Bishop Creighton who described " the weak brother " as a displeasing compound of the bully, the liar, and the fool ? • Jaw Human and Divine. By Hastings Hasiniali, MD....

a novel : the reader must be made to feel that something is going to happen. But there • The Beturs. By Walter de la Mare. Landon : w. Collins. [7s. Orl. net.] t ere DowilAr...

Mn. LAYINGTON'S 'little book on The Trade Cycle (P. S. King, 3s. 6d. net) deserves careful reading. In his " account of the causes producing rhythmical changes in the activity...

MR. DE LA MARE.* Mn. DE LA Mane's novel, The Return, was first published in 1910. It did not at that date perhaps reach a very wide public, and therefore, from one point of...

Sir Henry Maxwell Lyte's Catalogue of Manuscripts and Other Objects in the fascinating but none too well-known Museum of the Public Record Office (ls. 6d. net). This edition...

6d. net.)—Although Mrs. Elinor Glyn puts " Renais- sance " as the sub-title to her new novel, this must be taken to refer to the physical conditions of the hero and not to the...

Intim in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] The French Quarterly, just issued but dated March (Mare chester University Press, 3s. net), contains a...

Manchester Guardian on Tuesday is the most attractive pro- duction ever issued by any daily newspaper. It is a real pleasure to see good articles set in beautiful type, well...

IT is interesting for the faithful admirers of The Adventures of Hajii Baba of Ispahan to read Mr. Hilaire Belloc's study of the Eastern adventurer up to date. Needless to say,...

he began at St. Dunstan's for the sailors and soldiers blinded in the War is being carried on with unabated vigour by his widow, his son and his friends. The seventh annual...

A.D. Lawrie. Fifth Edition, revised by G. F. Emery. (Effing- ham Wilson. 2s. 6d. net.)—The value of this little book is shown by the fact that it has reached a fifth edition....

net.)—This short sketch of Arabian history is the only existing part of a larger work, planned to deal with Syria, Mesopotamia and Persia, which Mr. Hogarth has unfortunately...

net.)—Madame Dehn, the wife of an officer in the late Tsar's personal guard, was an intimate friend of the Tsaritsa and her children. Her account of the Empress Alexandra as a...

Philip Gee (40 King Street, Covent-Garden,.36s. net), is a new work which promises to be of great value to all who take commercial and economic questions seriously. This...

hopes in his reader. He sets out in Part L— "Survey and Clearance "—with a rapid survey of moral philo- sophy in its various manifestations from ancient Greece to the present...

Edward Sapir. (H. Milford. 8s. 6d. net.)—This clever little book, which is commendably free from the tiresome symbols of the phoneticians, aims at giving " a certain...