p UBLICITY, as we have tried to explain elsewhere, is for immediate purposes much the best weapon in dealing with Poland. We are delighted, therefore, to read in the Daily...

mission of inquiry into events in Ireland, and they show their own impartiality by omitting from beginning to end of the document all reference to the murders of policemen and...

during the war the Sinn Feiners were actively co-operating with the Germans the Government must have had ample proofs that Sum Fein was guilty of the greatest of crimes. Yet no...

every effort to obtain from the Vatican an exact definition of the attitude of the Roman Church towards murder. Now that France has also decided to appoint a diplomatic...

value in keeping track of documents bearing on the Irish rebellion and in making them public, has added to its list of services by calling attention, on Monday, to the Irish...

in Dublin on the previous Sunday were accorded a military funeral in London on Friday, November 26th. The long procession on its way from Euston to Westminster Abbey and...

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

day, November 25th, to confer with the Prime Minister and left on Monday. It was agreed that the plebiscite in Upper Silesia should be open to natives as well as to residents,...

approved of the Government Bill to re-establish the French Embassy at the Vatican. The debate had lasted a fortnight. M. Leygaes, in a persuasive speech, argued that the Bill...

on Sunday night at Kilmichael, near Macroom, County Cork. Eighteen auxiliary police, all of whom had held commissions during the war, were patrolling in two motor- lorries when...

have decided that the Union Parliament shall le dissolved on December 31st ; and that the General Election shall take place on February 8th. The Cape Town correspondent of the...

the acting president of the Sinn Fein organization, as well as Mr. John McNeil and other notorious Sinn Feiners. The Chief Secretary informed the House on Tuesday that the...

outrage and murder to England. On Saturday evening small gangs of desperate men broke into a number of ware- houses and timber-yards alongside the Liverpool and Bootle docks,...

entered the office of the Irish Times and threatened the staff. The advertisement office of the Freeman's Journal, a few doors away, was afterwards found to be on fire and...

A policeman detected a man acting auspiciously outside a large timber yard in Finsbury. When he tried to arrest the man, he was assaulted by a gang. The men then ran away, but...

the League of Nations to act as a mediator, with Spain and Brazil, between Armenia and the Turkish insurgents headed by Mustapha Kemal. America, he said, was specially...

Britain which was published last Friday, announced that the United States, having taken part in the war, must be consulted in regard to the mandates, and especially in regard to...

of 1914 would come automatically into operation on the day when the Turkish Peace Treaty was ratified, unless it was super- seded by the new Bill. He reminded the House that no...

there had been a "record" increase in the output of coal. The latest weekly returns are as follows :— Tons. November 13 .. .. 4,775,600 20 5,210,700 The second figure is far...

associations affiliated to the Federation of British Industries passed strong resolutions to the effect that direct taxation on production was endangering the stability of the...

Government of Ireland Bill a second time. Lord Dunraven's amendment for its rejection was defeated by 164 votes to 75. Lord Midleton's proposal to adjourn the Bill for a...

Irish Bill on Wednesday. Lord Midleton was defeated by 111 votes to 53 on an amendment designed to prevent North-East Ulster from having a separate Parliament. Lord Oranmore and...

Club on Tuesday, dealt entirely with the Irish question and made great and justifiable play with the irreconcilability of the views expressed by Lord Grey of Fallocl on and Mr....

Rabotehi Golos reports violent dissension among the Bolsheviks owing to the influence exercised over Lenin by a girl named Olga Gorokhoff. She is known as the "Red Ras- putin,"...

George's attitude reminded him of a story he had heard in New York. A man who was badly bit financially decided that he must economize on his household expenditure. He therefore...

Tuesday night, pleaded for a reduction of Public and private expenditure. The depression in trade - he said, was the result of the war. Europe was too poor tel buy our goods,...

Apr. IS, 1920; 6 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 84; Thursday week, b2/ ; a year ago, Hi.

CONSPIRACIES AND COMMON SENSE. HENAULT : " During this execution, Durand, you Must in the mid's: keep your battalia fast ; And, Theodore, to sure to plant the canon That may...

W HAT is the right way for sane and sensible people to deal with conspiracies ? We have no hesitation whatever as to the answer. First, of course, comes firm- Peas and that true...

L AST week we said that it did not very much matter on what terms America came into the League of Nations so long as she came in. The more we reflect the more we feel convinced...

T IlE easy descent of the extreme revolutionary from .1 pious and fraternal maxims to the necessity, and even the justice as he sees it, of bloody massacre is so familiar in...

W E mentioned last week that a debate was to be held on Thursday, November 25th, between Mr. Cl. K. Chester- ton and Mr. Hugh Walpole on the resolution that "The Modern Novel is...

TT is, we suppose, some far-off derivative of the herd instinaf which makes it so painful to fall out of things." We hate to feel that our particular group can do without us,...

CONDITIONS ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE. [To THE EEHTOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Since writing my last letter the Stock Exchange has experienced a continuation of its tribulations...

ITo THE EDITOR OE THE " SPECTATOR...3 Sta.—In your ib8U0 of November 27th you say that ten of the murdered officers are being given a public funeral with full military honours...

[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.J THE LATE LORD GLENCONNEE....

Sox,—The last issue of the Spectator affords another illustration of the manner in which the pen of the slanderer is used in the campaign against the Irish people, for surely...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...I Sne,—A short time ago the Daily News, in giving a descriptive report of the lecture of a distinguished modern biologist, told its readers...

Ito 77IE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."3 SIR,—May I send you a few words on your valued contributor, Mr. James Drummond Anderson, my oldest and truest friend? We were born in...

[To Inc EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."J 8, F, -- -There is one point with regard to this Bill on which all will agree: the discussion as to its merits is being carried on (Mite as...

[TO THE EDITOR OF rue " SPECTATOR."' SIR ,—Once again we ask the hospitality of your columns on behalf of the Fellowship of St. Michael and All Angels, which continues its...

Or THE " SrECTATOR."I S/11,—It has been decided to commemorate the life and work of the late Mrs. lIumphry Ward by raising a Memorial Fund to be employed in the furtherance of...

Ito THE EDITOR OF THE " EPECTLTOIC1 Sza,—I was walking along a dark lane the other night when I suddenly heard the noise of what appeared to be the heavy breathing of a superman...

THE PHOENIX.—OTWAY'S "VENICE PRESERVE," IT was very strange to be moved by the story of people with names such as Belvidere and Aquilina—a story, moreover, in which, after...

LOVE, AN ESSAY IN RHYTHM. Lila a great twilight bird it came, Swooping upon us from some shadowy region of strange air And things half-understood, half-formed and nameless. In...

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or initials, or with a pseudonym, or am Marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to Lein agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

not to note in this column the exceedingly clever and original entertainment, although it is not strictly drama, which was given at the Aeolian Hall on November 25th by Miss...

JOHN DRYDEN.* OUR debt to America in the matter of criticism and true scholar- ship applied to English literature grows greater year by year. Remember such criticism is never...

author who has become thoroughly domesticated in England. He is the most companionable and the most quotable of poets, and he is himself so normal and natural a person that all...

Mn. G. D. H. COLE, the principal exponent of Guild Socialism, may well call his book a re-statement, for he has stated his principles several times with modifications and...

PROFESSOR POLLARD, like the late F. W. Maitland, is a learned historian with a vivacious style. His book on the history of Parliament is at once very important and extremely...

BACK TO LIFE.• " Deaceneue Averni facilia . . . tied resocare gradual, Hoc eat opus, lac labor." How easy was the entry into war—a war of self-defence in which every thinking...

THE POMI'S OF HISTORY.* SiNcE his visit to this country the British public is probably more familiar with the work of Mr. Vachel Lindsay than with that of any other American...

series of clever sketches which occasionally contain enough plot and are of sufficient length to be called short- stories. The writing is, as Mr. John Galsworthy says in his...

(New York : Alfred A. Knopf.) —Mrs. Tietjens has not in this book achieved the high standard she set herself in her first book, the remarkable Profiles from China, which we...

CHILDREN'S BOOKS.* This year there is a delightful light-heartedness about the story- books, and one feels that the clouds of the last six years have Vaned to let more rays of...

[Notice in this column sloes not necessarily prechnle subsequent missed TIES DECIMBER MONTHLIES.—The Nineteenth Century opens with a thoughtful article by Lord Ernie on "The...

the Journal of Industrial Welfare (9d. monthly), which is the organ of the Industrial Welfare Society, and shows, by practical examples, how much good can be done by taking...

: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.)— This remarkable book gives a summary account of the numerous institutions, great and small, which the late Mr. Carnegie founded,...

Review fur a charming article on "Mrs. Humphry Ward and Italy," by Mrs. Trevelyan, who recalls the writing of Eleanor in the Villa Barberini in the Alban Hills, and shows how...

St. Clair Reid, assisted by James Walker. (Edinburgh : Hodge. 15s. net.)—This instructive book contains a brief sketch of the Scottish licensing law, an elaborate commentary on...

indispensable to the serious student of politics, and we are glad te know that it is gaining new readers in the United States as well as in Great Britain and the Dominions. The...

65. net.)—Mr. Lansbury, in a preface, says that he and the author believe in "the law of love." Mr. Gould pro- fesses to desire "a peaceful revolution" in order to redistribute...

net.)—This is an interesting and attractive book about the wild and grand scenery to be found in the Western States of America. It is well illustrated with photographs which...

(Routledge. 6s. net.)—Father Hopkins, of the Seamen's and Firemen's Union, describes in this book the friendly relations between the union and the shipowners and the steps by...

(Hutchinson. ma. net.)—Mr. Everitt devotes about half of this book to an account of his adventures as a secret service agent in Scandinavia during the war. The other half is...

queathed to Corpus Christi, Cambridge, in 1574, may be gathered from a Guide to an Exhibition of Historical Authorities which the librarian, Sir Geoffrey Butler, has compiled...