feeling of physical nausea. The Ulstermen of the Six County Area arc faced with stern and terrible facts. Can any man blame them if they do not desire to be under the kind of...

on Wednesday in a very thin House. The absence of most of the Independent Liberals and the Labour Party coincided with, but may or may not have been duo to, the fact that it was...

to make a sacrifice, have already sacrificed themselves. In the first place they have consented, though with sad hearts, to give up their full place in the United Kingdom and in...

future of the Irish Post Office. The Bill provides that if, and when, the Northern and Southern Irish Parliaments agree to unite, the Post Office shall be transferred to the...

invective or by crying over the milk that has been so plentifully spilt in Downing Street, in Parliament, and in Dublin. We must, how- ever, register a strong and indignant...

W E have described elsewhere the seething pot of European diplomacy. The state of the world is like that de- scribed in Byron's Vision of Judgment. We see all Eastern Europe and...

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

America should accept a mandate for Armenia. Sixty-two. Senators voted against the proposal, and only twelve supported. it. This decisive expression of opinion extinguishes the...

High Commissioner for Palestine, under the mandate assigned to Great Britain. As an experienced- administrator, Mr. Samuel will - find plenty of - work to do in. Jerusalem....

Allies, was received at Downing Street on Monday by the Prime Minister, Mr. Boner Law and Lord Curzon.. M. Krassin's ostensible purpose in visiting England was to discuss. with...

H. Thomas and his executive have contrived to evade the very plain question raised by the" direct action " of the Irish members of the National Union of Railwaymen, The Irish...

week in the French Chamber's debate on the Allied financial policy towards Germany. He referred at length to the H3 the conversations, and made the important announcement that r...

that America was no longer at war with Germany. In the message announcing his decision, he said that this method of making peace " would place an ineffaceable stain upon the...

Sinn Feiners achieved " peaceful penetration " of the Registry of Deeds in Dublin, which was .supposed to be protected by an armed guard. The raiders held up the sentry with...

and transport workers, desires the special Congress to determine " the attitude of British Labour towards the production and handling of munitions of war for Ireland and...

shortly to be surrendered to Great Britain and flown over to this country by a mixed crew of British and Germans. The improvement made in Zeppelins during the- war is shown by...

was made by about 200 Sinn Feiners on the police barracks at Kilmallock, in County Limerick. The garrison of ten policemen held out from 2 to 7 a.m., until they were surrounded...

has been taken in the fact that Mr. Thomas Hardy on Wednestay celebrated -his eightieth birthday. It is rightly felt that, whilst old age in • itself. is venerable, it is...

hearing of the case for and against the railwaymen's new claims for more wages. The proceedings were conducted in a decorous manner, but the question involved is none the less...

on a caste principle is that it must promote incessant demands from all the other castes as soon as one has been favoured. For if the railway caste were to receive higher wages...

on Friday week, at the age of sixty-nine. He was appointed, a few years after leaving Oxford, to the vicarage of Wray on Lake Windermere, and he spent the rest of his life there...

country by the calamity which overtook the small Lincolnshire town of Louth last Saturday. A sudden downpour of rain in almost tropical violence--so violent indeed that men...

o1 twopence, which came into effect last Tuesday, seems to carry us back to quite a remote. age. It is a hundred years since Tom Moore published a collection of satirical poems...

Dr. Morrison, the well-known Chinese expert, sometime Pekin correspondent of the Times and later political adviser to the first President of the Chinese Republic. There is no...

per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 851; Thursday week, 86i; a year ago, 94k.

Prime Minister and his chief colleagues on Monday was not in itself either so astonishing or so reprehensible as the Government's enemies have sought to make out. But it was a...

RATION THE DEPARTMENTS. T ORD FISHER'S shrewd and characteristic letter, I published in Tuesday's Times, dealing with our spendthrift Empire reminds us of the saying of one of...

T HE question whether there exist on the Continent or even here Secret Societies with ultra-revo- lutionary aims inspired and controlled by Jews, and if so, what type of Jews...

W E publish above the first of two papers on certain aspects of the controversy over The Jewish Peril pamphlet—an article which can best be described as the Jews and Secret and...

I belongs to a particular form of imagination to take pleasure in concentrated worth. Even now when money is so scarce a great many people love to feel that they have a small...

T HE Romanes Lecture delivered at Oxford on Thursday week by the Dean of St. Paul's should cause as much heart-searching as the famous discourse in Evolution and Ethics which...

SIR,--At the moment of writing the decision of the Government in regard to the special taxation of wealth accumulated during the war has not been announced, although it is...

[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.] BOLSHEVISM. [To THE EDITOR...

[To THE EDITOR OF TILE " SPECTATOR.") Sia,—When so many conclusions, one more absurd than the other, are made about Russia it is no crime, I think, to recall a little page of...

[To THE EDITOR or " SPccrsTOa."l SIII.—Your note on the arrival in this country of the Rev. F. W. North, the Chaplain of the British Church in Moscow, tempts me, as the parent...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPZCTATOR.") Sta,—Among the forces leading toward Anglo-American friend- ship mentioned in your leader of May 1st, I was disappointed not to find...

SIR,—In the controversy about divorce I have not seen it observed that Christ's condemnation of it (quoted by the Arch- bishop of Canterbury in the House of Lords) was addressed...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Mr. Barker, quite rightly, writes with some experience when he advocates the extension of divorce jurisdiction to the County Courts....

Sia,—The issues of the Spectator for March 20th and 27th have just reached me containing articles on the subject of the Wild • Birds' Plumage Bills now pending. I do not know...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—By his letter in your last issue Mr. J. E. H. Baker has definitely and authoritatively established the facts, first that more than 75...

(To THE EDITOR OT THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —Mr. E. It. Blakeney's tribute to the late Bishop of Durham, in your issue of May 29th, quotes the beautiful word' of -the Bishop when...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I endeavour to enlist the sylispathies of your readers in a matter that is of paramount importance to the nation, the (raining of...

SIR,—In your article on " Thanks " in the Spectator of May 29th the writers says: " No animal stops to say Thank you." I have, however, known one animal who did. Our Angora cat,...

and spontaneous expression of grati- tude it has been my lot in life to hear in something over three score and ten years was from a little girl of eight or nine. As she tugged...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SfR,—Your article on " Thanks " reminds me of a story told to me by a worker who lived in one of the industrial towns of the north, a town...

" SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The reviewer, in your issue of May 29th of Mr. J. T. Buchanan's Account Rendered, refers to the time honoured yarn of the battle between the thresher and the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR "] Sta,—Your notes last week on the N.U.R.'s new demands were very true. There is an old Scotch story about a Probationer, who whilst...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Last year the Committee for the Reconstruction of Serbian Libraries (working under the Entente Committee of the Royal Society of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sis,—ln the last paragraph of " News of the Week " in last week's Spectator I read with astonishment that the Daily Herald actually gives...

" SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The European Association of India requests that you will kindly publish the fact that the Council of that Association has addressed the Secretary of State...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sta,—May I appeal to your readers on behalf of Bishop Creigh- ton House, Lillie Road, Fulham. It is a ladies' settlement, the only one in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THS " SPECTATOR."] . SIR,—None of your correspondents refers to Anthony Trollope's talent for nomenclature. He seems to be better known and loved in Amereia...

Ws have received the following telegram from Masulipatam with reference to the new franchise proposals :- Madras Zamindari Landholders' Association greatly regrets that the...

TO MY CAT. Wawa sprays of roses fall, Hiding the old moat wall, 'Neath the white lilies tall. Stretched out he lies. Purring in utter bliss, Who is so staunch as this Friend...

" MARY ROSE," BY SIR JAMES BARRIE, AT THE HAYMARK ET. Soso authors stoop without conquering, others conquer without stooping. Sir James Barrie both stoops and conquers. There...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—The following story has been recalled to my mind by the otter story published in the Spectator of May 15th, and may prove interesting....

writer's 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...

MR. ROOSEVELT.• IT will be long before the English-speaking peoples cease to regret Mr. Roosevelt. The very attractive biography just written by his old friend Mr. W. R. Thayer...

of the thought of the wonders that " modern science " would do for the men of the next generation. Now we think rather of what modern psycho- logy will make of them. To the man...

light is shed on that campaign by the private diary which Sir Ian Hamilton has given to the world. The character of the commander is a fundamental element in a campaign, and...

integral part of scholar- ship ; without it poetry could not be written and prose would be intolerable. But mere ingenuity is not enough ; what you • Forty-four MontAt in...

Da. HUDSON &rum, in the course of his clerical duties, has spent the greater part of the last thirteen years travelling about Alaska. He has already described his winter...

Ma. DAYAL'S book offers a convincing illustration of the inability of Germany not only to make friends but to keep those that accident had already made for her. Mr. Dayal did...

be a surprise to find Mr. Lovell recom- mending the results of his studies of plant life and bee-culture not only to the lover of Nature and the student but to the farmer. The...

WE have received a copy of the recent address in which the learned President of the Society of Antiquaries reviewed the position of archaeology after the war. He announced that...

THE UNDERWORLD.• Me. WELSH, the author of The Underworld, is a Lanarkshire coal miner who has worked at every phase of coal-getting since he was twelve years old until his...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review. THE Jerre MONTHLIES.—The Nineteenth Century has a notable article on " Foul Play for the Ex-Service Man...

NEW POEMS BY MR. MASEFIELD.• READERS of Mr. Arnold Bennett's Buried Alive will remember how the great artist, who is the hero of the book, makes his • The Underworld : the Story...

78. 6d. net.)—One of the author's usual delightful stories of London. The Enoch Arden theme, though it has, of course, become almost commonplace during the war, is cleverly...

Matthews. Is. fid. net.)—Attreetive little poems in praise of London.—The Kiltartan Poetry Book. By Lady Gregory. (Putnam and Co. 6s. net.)—Translaticn from the Irish. An...

perate articles on the Turkish Peace Treaty, Egypt, America, and the European problems before the Supreme Council. It also allows a Frenchman to state the French case for...

Aylmer Haldane. (Arnold. 10s. 6d. net.)—At the outset of the war General Haldane commanded the 10th Brigade, in the 4th Division, which arrived at Le Cateau on August 24th,...

(H. Frowde and Hodder and Stoughton. 58. net.).—This convenient reprint of the Peace Treaty is published for the Institute of International Affairs, under the editorship of Mr....

(Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press. 7 dollar*, 50 cents.)—Professor Willoughby, of the Johns Hopkins Uni- versity, served as legal adviser to the Chinese Republic during the war....

Spencer. (Stevens. 10s.)—This useful book contains the Small Holdings Act of 1908, the important amending Act of last year, and the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of...

Street, S.W., 5s. net) has again appeared. It will be at least as welcome to all concerned with building as have been any of its previous twenty-one editions. The old standard...

Handbooks prepared by the Historical Section of the Foreign Office for the edification of the British delegates in Paris. Nine of these relate to the Near East ; we may name, in...

Dr. Shadwell's exceedingly able and judicious articles on the reoent Report of the Court of Inquiry into the dockers' claims have been reprinted from the Times and deserve...

beginner who sees most of the game, and it is well if we have undergone a new experi- ence the nature of which we desire to impart to the world at large by means of the written...

Arthur Pearson. 3s. 6d. net.)—Colonel Grant has lived and practised in the East-End for a generation. His plain matter-of-fact notes on some of the queer or tragic cases with...

By G. E. Hubbard. (Cambridge University Press. 15s. net.)—Mr. Hubbard has made an interesting book on the " golden age " of Turkey by collecting and summarizing the narratives...