19 APRIL 1913, Page 3

We welcome the appearance of the New Statesman, a new

weekly journal, in the editing of which Mr. Bernard Shaw and Mr. Sidney Webb are to be associated. The combination promises well for the serious presentation of intellectual Socialism, tempered by paradoxical high kicks from the Nation's Jester. We do not often expect to find our- selves in agreement with the New Statesman; all the more reason therefore for commending the admirable article on "the muddle over the Irish grant," in which the conditions attached to the grant of 0,000 to the Irish Agricultural Organization Society are denounced with great vigour and good sense.