6 AUGUST 1921, Page 15

THE IRISH NEGOTIATIONS.

(To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."]

Srn,—The following quotation from Burke's speech on con- ciliation with America seems appropriate to the present negotiations between the Government and Sinn Fein, which have been severely animadverted upon in certain quarters: "Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together."—I am,