in regard to Conscription for Ireland. Here we will summarize the very important and significant debate in the House of Commons on Tuesday, which was chiefly concerned with the...

some- thing encoursging in all that had happened. Ho defended the Government's dual policy, and asked why the Government should be blamed for trying to remove a very great...

T HE general outlook as we write is much more favourable. The great Italian victory on the Piave has disposed of the Austrian offensive. The Allied Armies in France have gained...

House of Lords on the Government's Irish folicy, but we desire to express our admiration of the good sense, moderation, and statesmanlike spirit shown by Lord Londonderry in his...

anti to marine risk states that 224,735 tons of British shipping and 130,959 tons of Allied and neutral shipping were sunk in May. The losses due to the ordinary perils of the...

opened by Mr. Shortt, the new Chief Secretary for Ireland. He proved the reality of the German plot in Ireland by quoting freely from popular pamphlets, posters, and poems as...

say that the Italians pressed their counter-attacks with such deter- mination that the Austrians, who had crossed to the wed of the Piave on June 15th, were compelled, after...

of Home Rule and Conscription. They " were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided." He said that he had never, so far as he knew, mentioned...

TO OUR READERS.—It is now necessary for readers to place a definite order for the " Spectator " with their Newsagent or at one of the Railway Book- stalls. Should any reader...

Craig, who made the valuable proposal that the Government should without delay pass a one-clause Bill cutting Ulster out of the Aet of 1914. That would immediately place Ulster...

the Nationalists becomes more disastrous day by day,. denounced the work of the Dublin Recruiting Committee. " They come to us," he said, " seeking to exploit the well-known...

the Austrian armies during the Russian campaigns have organized themselves in hands, and are making their way across Siberia in order to reach America and proceed thence to the...

would be interesting to know why Herr von Ktihlmame was in- structed to confess that the Emperor's " sharp sword " would not bring peace. His object might be to prepare the...

great process of fermentation " within the Russian Colossus, but warned his hearers that all the conditions in Russia were uncertain. He was about to discuss a " long series "...

dramatic appearance at the Labour Conference . on Wednesday, In a short speech he said that he had come straight from Moscow. The Russian people, he said, were fighting against...

citizen is now receiving three ounces of bread a day, and about two ounces of potatoes. Austria is blaming Germany and Hungary for refusing to share their supplies fairly with...

that now that Irish Conscription has been " ignominiously dropped " the Prime Minister's , excuse for having asked elderly men in Great Britain to serve in the Army has...

such controversy about the exclusion of the homogeneous area. Mr. Lloyd George himself in most powerful language has long sinew con- sented to the principle of the exclusion of...

of a long speech in the Reichstag on Monday, seems to have astonished the Deputies by asking whether the war would last ' 1920. He denied that the Government had never reckoned...

probity are beyond doubt. He has been a distinguished public servant who, as we believe, at great personal expense has placed himself whole-heartedly at the disposal of his...

the Alien question was heard when Mr. Leverton Harris, whose wife had affronted many people by visiting a half-Austrian, half-English boy in an alien internment camp, was...

Arthur Griffith, Sinn Feiner, had a majority of 1,214 over the Nationalist candidate, Mr. O'Hanlon. Mr. Griffith, who polled 3,795 votes, is one of the Sinn Fein leaders who...

1,704,000 votes to 951,000 votes, that " the existence of the political truce should be no longer recognized." Mr. Henderson said that the resolution merely referred to...

week. Mr. H. Greer, the Government candidate, beat the Inde- pendent candidate, Mr. H. H. Beamish, by 4,512 votes to 3,331—a majority of 1,181. Mr. Beamish fought the election...

important, it is far more important to find the men so badly needed by the Army. It is also far more important to find means of helping Russia. That alone is a task for every...

approving of " the principle of a League of Nations," but deleted the clause referring to an international Tribunal. Lord Curzon pointed out that the British Empire and the...

affairs of the moment, that in the enormous improvised Departments which have been created during the war there is a good deal of amiable jobbery by officials in the interests...

old system, because it is a denial, though disguised, of democracy's principles. The real snare of democracy is that it may not show the courage that autocrats often have. The...

April 5,1917.

what has happened, in spite of the Government's 1 broken Pledges, in spite of the mismanagement, in- justice, and fatuity which have marked the Government's handling of the...

THE GOVERNMENT : THEIR PLEDGES AND PERFORMANCES. H ER E are the Pledges made to the British People -by Mr. Lloyd George and his colleagues in regard to Conscription for Ireland...

r THE wheel of war has taken a distinct turn as an immediate result of the great Italian victory. Herr von Kuhl- mann's speech in the Reichstag was of the first significance,...

I T isprobable that within a few days the Government will publish the scheme of Indian reforms which has been drawn up by Mr. Montagu in consultation with Lord Chelmsford. In...

preside over the destinies of Portugal for at least four years. In him the Portuguese people has representative of its best traditions and ideals, and it is fortunate in being...

I MAGINARY money is slow to change its face-value. When we forgo a longish journey or a serious purchase, and thus turn an honest pound or two of imaginary money by our...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."3 SIR,—Now that Conscription fcr Ireland has apparently been dropped, there is offered to the men of Ulster an admirable oppor- tunity to...

THE " SPECTATOR.") Sia,--Mr. Baring's letter encourages me to make a similar pro- test. If Mr. Lytton Strachey had stated his facts, and then stepped aside and allowed his...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In your issue of June 15th Mr. Herman Cohen, shocked by the proceedings in the case of Rex v. Billing, examines the legal protection...

(To TUE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR...) SIR, —As a contrast to the character sketch of the Arabs which appeared in the Spectator of June 22nd under the heading of " Freeing the...

[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 LATE LORD CROMER. [To...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR29 SIR, — Your article, " The Baltic Question," in the Spectator of June 15th, raises questions of so far-reaching importance that a Danish...

[To THE EDITOR OP TEE " SPEcTATOR."] S15,—I hope your article on " The Outpouring of Money " will receive - wide attention. The growth of the power of the bureau- cracy is one...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SFECTATOR."3 S112,—.As an earliest seeker after truth, I read with eagerness in Last Saturday's Spectator the simple recipe for a happy Lome as given by...

the large class of perplexed mistresses in Great Britain, I was delighted to see the easy solution of the servant problem given by "Satisfied Mistress" in your issue of June...

Mistress " evidently lives in the country in a large house with a large income. We humbler dwellers in the suburbs would find it difficult to carry out her delightful plans....

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I have just lead with interest Mr. IV. Peterson's loiter fruits Montreal, published in your issue of the 8th inst., under the title "...

THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The letter from your correspondent " Anglo-Scot " raises a subject on which 1 have thought and felt much. I too have grieved over the narrowness and...

[To THE EDITOR OF TUE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—It is long from April 13th till this can reach you, but I hope your enjoyable abstract of the Princeton volume on The Value of the...

THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The following quotation from a letter I have received from America may be of interest to some of your readers. The letter is written by an English lady...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Peccavi" has for many long years been associated in my mind with another equally laconic, and my impression has been that both appeared in...

ITO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sza,—Mr. St. John Mildmay's condemnation of the Order referring to gooseberries has apparently been written in ignorance of the terms of the...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] flit,—In the third instalment of Mrs. Humphry Ward's " A Writer's Recollections," in the May tumber of Cornhill, she writes of Browning:—...

TO A GRANDCHILD—AGED ONE WEEK. Aa, Dearest, you were bold and wise, Brave father's braver daughter, You dared to face a world grown old In fire and storm and slaughter. You...

!To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,—Mr. Richard Crook pleads with great force against Dr. Montessori and in favour of what one might irreverently call the inethods of Dr....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] Sit,—Mr. H. C. Irwin's story of the Skolekobrote seems to have been either a forerunner or else a relic of a verse current in Oxford...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—The William De Morgan Chelsea Memorial Tablet is to be unveiled in Chelsea Old Church, Cheyne Walk, at 6 o'clock on Thursday, July...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agree- ment with the views therein expressed or with the mode...

EMINENT VICTORIANS.• MR. LITTON STRACHEY has leapt at one bound into fame by the four distinguished portraits which make up his little gallery of " Eminent Victorians." Mr....

new book on Warren Hastings has set herself to describe the great Proconsul's administrative reforms during the two happy and fruitful years from 1772 to 1774 when he was...

IT is one of the strange features-of the war that, by a tragic inversion, the Lives of the young should have to be written by the old. Of this recent kind of biography, sad yet...

" TAN essay is to be primarily the study of the master personal relationship of Swinburne's life. Such a relationship does not occur in a vacuum. It is involved with other...

PICCADILLY JIM.t IN this ingenious extravaganza Mr. Wodehouse continues his studies of life in New York and London, but principally New York, with the same laudable impartiality...

LORD GREY OF FALLODON has written a slender pamphlet to give his assent and encouragement to the much-debated ideal of a League of Nations. We shall summarize it briefly,...

[Notice in tkis column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] South Slav Monuments : I. Serbian Orthodox Church. Edited by M. J. Pupin. (J. Murray. 42s.)—Sir T. G....

Italian- English." (Cambridge-University Press. 9s. net.)—Now that there is a great revival of Italian studies in this country, Mr. Hoare's admirable dictionary is assured of a...

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stable and Co., ls. 3d.) confirms the promise shown by the first. There is a timely article on "The Venetian Front," though the magazine went to press just too soon to record...

published in Paris for - circulation in South America, contains in its June number a notable letter from Don Ricardo Sanchez, formerly Chilean Minister in Berlin, returning to...

Bolton, the Curator of Sir John Soane's Museum, on Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing Green, once Soane's country house and now the Ealing Public Library (Soane Museum, 7d.). George Dance...

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