effect produced by his letter, he learned from Mr. Smillie that the miners' delegates had not discussed the Government's proposals seriously. Possibly the executive did not...

Smillie a letter to explain, even more clearly than before, his plan for increasing wages if the output of coal were increaser. He suggested that, if the output reached x tons,...

ment to remain perfectly firm on that point in the interests of the miners themselves as well as in the interests of the whole community. We are sure that the coal-owners, on...

of three to two, not to accept the Government's proposals for a settlement nor to refer them to the miners at another allot. It is alleged that Mr. Smillie for once took the...

miners' representatives was that the owners submitted a scheme for the regulation of wages based upon output. The scheme was rejected by the miners. The miners' representatives...

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T HE coal negotiations have again become critical when we write on Thursday. If there are any reasons for hope they lie in the fact that most of the workers, if not most of the...

be the case, the miners are refusing the offer of very substantially higher wages because they are unwilling to guarantee more coal, the Government cannot possibly give way...

letters submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do his best to return contributions in case of rejection.

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be prevented in the future, and, as far as possible, the authors of them must be punished. Two wrongs never make a right ; the terrible crimes of Shin Feiners can never justify...

the disciplined tracking down of Shin Fein murderers should be encouraged in every way, because it is unfortunately true that the general population of Ireland—that part at...

Liberal mind. When a foreigner eommits an act of aggression against us, excuses are found for the aggressor rather than for us who wish to defend ourselves. When an individual...

few days. On Wednesday week six policemen in a motor-lorry were ambushed near Miltown Malbay. Four were shot dead and one mortally wounded. On Thursday night two Sinn Feiners...

in Mallow, occupied by a party of the 17th Lancers. Most of the soldiers were away exercising their horses. The. Slim Feiners, arriving in motor-ears, took the sentry unawares,...

case of Inspector Burke, who was much liked by his men and who was assassinated at Balbriggan, Those who avenged the death of that officer did so "knowing well that the orgamz'...

the Resumption that Sir Nevil Macready hue been correctly reported --WI are bound to add that the attitude of the Liberal Press hi England dam not make easy the path of those...

are reading accounts of the reprisals that the postal and telegraph services are now largely managed, if not dominated, by men of Sinn Fein sympathy. It is reported that in some...

campaign of assassination. The Sinn Feiners themselves could stop reprisals whenever they liked. Let us quote from a letter written by the Rev. Nicholas Lawless, Roman Catholic...

of Trim, County Meath, were attacked by a large body of Simi Feiners while half the police were at church. The head constable was seriously wounded, and the barracks were set on...

of articles by Dr. Haden Guest, a Fabian Socialist, who recently visited Russia with the British Labour Delegation. Ho gives textually an extraordinarily illuminating...

a bargain between the British Government and one part of Ireland has any chance of success." In his opinion Irishmen mist draw up their own scheme. He thinks that they will...

Home Rule by Lord Grey of FaRoden. After describing the scandalous state of Ireland, he says that the permanent underlying cause of it is not the shortcomings of any individual...

Versailles on Thursday week, in succession to M. Deschanel. He received 695 votes out of 892. In thanking the National Assembly, the new President reasserted his intention to...

in Brussels on Friday week to consider the beat means of extricating Europe from bankruptcy. M. Ador, ex-President of the Swiss Confederation, took the chair and likened tho...

Bolsheviks have made little progress. Tho Bolsheviks have offered to recognize a Polish frontier drawn further east than the line proposed by the Allies. They have also offered...

Conference of Micawber's doctrine that one's expenditure ought always to be less than one's income. If they could impress this on the peoples of Europe it would be a great...

Why should North-East Ulster,which wants nothing except to remain a part of the United Kingdom, be handed over to the mercy of its traditional enemies ? The plan seems to us to...

Apr. 15, 1920; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 841; Thursday week, 841; a year ago, 9471.

THE NEMESIS OF TALK. I N our public life there is far too much private talk. Our statesmen talk too much about themselves, about their plans, and, worst of all, about their...

T HE intrigue by which the Bolsheviks of Moscow tried to collar the Daily Herald and turn it into a subsidized organ of their own is already familiar history. It is true that we...

W E publish in our correspondence columns an inter- esting and able letter on Penal Reform written to us by Miss Fry—a descendant of Mrs. Fry of happy memory, for so we may...

T HE vast majority of British people do not in the least understand what an extremity of starvation and disease has been reached in certain parts of Europe. Advertisements and...

CI TALE controversy is a most unwholesome thing ! Just at a moment when an appreciable approach towards Christian unityhas been made it is unfortunate that the scientific...

A MONGST the more important by-products of the late war we may fairly rank the Advisory Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, a review of whose activities during the...

BANKING RESOURCES AFTER THE WAR.—I. (To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."1 SE2,—Without entering too deeply into the question of how much poorer the country may be in its...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more e f fective, than those which fill treble the space.] THE CONDITION OF IRELAND....

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Ste —Human machines, like iron ones, from time to time need overhauling. Conditions vary, science progresses, even ethical principles...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR "] Ssa,—A pamphlet by E. D. Morel, entitled The Horror on the Rhine, has come into may hands. This pamphlet - gives the figures of the black...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sre,—In connexion with the subject of Indian constitutional reform, I should like to draw attention to the very recent Hindu-Mohammedan...

THE " S PECTATOR ."1 SIR, — In response to the letter which you were so good as to publish in your issue of September 11th, I have received on behalf of the Royal Irish...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] BIR, — It has occurred to me that some of your readers—with a memory of the niebonnaire, light-hearted Viennaof former times —might be...

tTo Tat ED/TOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sta, — In two books just published by Methuen there is the same story. In the delightful Verena in the Midst, by E. V. Lucas, it appears in...

THE " SPECTATOR.") Stn, — At the close of your interesting review of Tract No. .7 of the Society for Pure English you note thirst the Society appells for a discussion of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, —Your readers will doubtless be interested to know• that at the Building School for ex-officers, at Hornehurch, near Rumford, we have...

UNDER THE STONE.* Go into a shady part of the garden, or better still, into a damp shrubbery, and lift up some big flat stone. Underneath you will find a quantity of crawling...

WYNDHAM'S.—" THE PRUDE'S FALL" BY RUDOLF BESIER AND MAY EDGLNGTON. "All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love...

ALCHEMY. Is seventy-nine her keel was laid, She did ten years in the coastal trade, But since those days she's been a rover Tramping the seven seas all over, Tramping them back...

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 mode of...

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THESE little essays on the doctrines of some famous revolu- tionaries would not seem to us worth serious notice were it not that they are a phenomenon of the times. When...

Dn. Amens, of Cornell University, has written a valuable history of the early London theatres, incorporating the results of much independent research as well as the discoveries...

MR. NEWTON, an American collector living in Pennsylvania, has written one of the most engaging books about books that we have read for years. Everyone who loves books will...

net.)—This is a very entertaining theatrical novel of the type more or less originated by Mr. Compton Mackenzie. There is a more elaborate attempt at character drawing than is...

MR. HERBERT ASQUITH'S NEW VERtE.t MR. HERBERT ASQUITH is the sort of poet to whom we look for renewed confirmation of our original opinion—i.e., that he is e • Verona in the...

a woman who has lost in the war all that makes life precious. The book describes how she takes two strangers into her tiny home in the Alps and the romantic result of their...

VERENA IN THE MIDST.* VERENA, a slightly nebulous spinster with a tendency to a halo, fell down on some ice and injured her spine. Mr. E. V. Lucas has imagined—very...

[Notice U. tats column does not necessarily preclude ramsgenl review.] Canon Temple is editing a new quarterly " review of Christian politics and religion " entitled The Pilgrim...

net.)—Mr. Hammer's interesting address, delivered at Magdalen College, Oxford, last year, emphasized the fact that Holberg, the Norwegian contemporary of Swift and Pope, was a...

his well-known book in 1816. Some unnamed editor, apparently an American, has prepared this " centennial edition," containing many additional terms and cross references. While...

F. Richards. (J. Lane. 16s. net.)—These familiar letters to his friends the Ashursts—especially to Emily Ashurst, Signora Venturi, who devoted her life to the cause of " Young...

for Promoting Christian Knowledge has just published two little books of Select Extracts Illustrating Florentine Life, from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century (Is. net...

Mrs. P. S. M. Arbuthnot. (G. Allen and Unwin. 63s. net.)—This substantial volume of family history has been compiled with care, and an exceptionally good index makes the...

the British Academy. Is. 6d. net.)—Professor Scott's memoir of the late Archdeacon Cunningham is a worthy tribute to that very able man, who did so much for the study of British...

Milford. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. T. W. ItoHeaton has printed for the first time, from a manuscript in his possession, an unfinished political pamphlet written by Shelley in 1820. The...

(Macmillan. 12s. 6d. net.)—Mrs. Hadfield, the wife of a min. sionary stationed at Lifua, has spent thirty years in the Loyalty Group of islands, and in this well-written book,...