irre- parable blunder if they assume that the British people will allow the compact and strong minority of loyalists in the North to be sacrificed. The phrase " government by...

bound to answer Yes or No to the proposal of this " conference on one condition." It would be difficult to say on our present informa- tion whether the Cabinet has or has not in...

proposals in the draft of July 20th were based on the latter of the premises which we have quoted. Those proposals had therefore been rejected, and he adds : " Our rejection is...

official translation," was dated from the Dublin Mansion House on August 30th. Mr. De Valera admits that it is " essential that some definite and immediate progress should be...

A T last something more definite has happened in the Irish negotiations. Mr. De Valera has written another letter, full of his resounding phrases which may mean much or little,...

question of Ulster, and remarks that " the conditions sought to be imposed would divide Ireland into two artificial States each destructive of the other's influence in any...

Readers experiencing difficulty in obtaining the " Spectator " regularly and promptly through the aboli- tion of the Sunday post or other causes should become yearly...

very principle on which the British Empire has been built up and has pros- pered. Unfortunately, Mr. De Valera says nothing whatever about the consent of the loyalists in the...

Valera in which he-said that "plain common sense "—his own description of the unreal phrases wherewith the Shin Fein rulers have so far avoided the issue—was to-day sneered at...

anything about a particularly silly article on Ireland by Mr. Bernard Slew which was published in the Daily News of/Tuesday. But, unfortunately, we have, in makiing.the British...

liberty of the Press being a " bourgeois " idea—reveals the split caused by Lenin's open recognition of the necessity of capitalism. The orthodox Pravda complains of " the...

Cross Societies to Moscow, made an agreement with the Bolsheviks for the distribution of food sent by the Red Cross under the joint control of a Bolshevik commissary and a Red...

charitable people to help the famine-stricken Russians, but it is clear that the task will not be an easy one. Apart from the disorganization of transport under Bolshevik...

information, that the riots in Belfast had been con- trived by Sinn Feiners in order that the trouble might be used as an argument for bringing turbulent North-East Ireland...

which the Sinn Feiners are behaving towards Belfast, thanks-to a speech made by Mr. O'Duffy, the Shin Fein "liaison officer for Ulster." This speech was made last week and was...

members of the non-party Relief Commission, the formation of which they allowed a few weeks ago. Further- more, they have openly appealed, through the Daily Herald, to the...

of Dr. Addison's grandiose housing policy has already reduced the cost of building. At the New Year workmen's cottages were estimated to cost £1,200 apiece ; by the end of June...

we were told, the London coal merchants decided that there would be no reduction in the prices of coal this year. On Tues- day it was announced that the prices of coal in...

the Lord, ayor, himself a railwayman, who frankly warned the members that municipalities could not continue to find work for the unemployed if the men deliberately idled away...

the National Union of Clerks to set up a Whitley Council for the benefit of the clerks employed by trade unions. An innocent spectator might have supposed that the request would...

said that their movement was still hindered by sec- tional and caste differences. Drivers and firemen thought that they were better than the platelayers or labourers. This, of...

supersede the Parliamentary Committee of the Congress. It - would enable other unions to take " correlative action " if any union was involved in a trade dispute ; it would, he...

rate for the sums due to the County Council and the police, were arrested in batches last week and this week and committed to gaol for contempt of court. Some of them urged...

A detachment of the Dorseta had a sharp fight with the rebels at Tirurangadi and captured the ringleader, Ali Musaliar. A .body of insurgents is still at large in the hills and...

Austin Dobson at the age of eighty-one. He was a true man of letters, who within his limited sphere strove earnestly for perfection. His light verse and his prose essays on his...

July 21, 1921 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 88L Thursday week, 68f ; a year ago, 86.

THE CREATION OF INDUSTRIAL SERFDOM. T "public which is looking on at the e ff orts of a large number of the unemployed to throw themselves upon the Guardians and to extract...

the extremely I interesting letters by the late Mr. Walter Hines Page, who was the American Ambassador in London from 1913 to 1918, which are appearing in the World's Work. We...

T HE Moplah rebellion in Malabar, which has now been put down by the British troops after some stiff fighting, was a sharp reminder that dangerous forces are at work in India....

have watched the spectacle of the peoples of the earth being swept may from their old financial and industrial moorings. We have watched them swept into an uncharted sea. Out...

C ANADA, like other countries, is suffering from the after-effects of the war • perhaps even more than her neighbours. The voice of the unemployed is heard everywhere throughout...

A CAREFUL reader of Irish news might have seen a small notice in one corner of an Irish paper some time ago to the effect that " Mr. — was attacked by armed and masked men, who...

AT length, and none too soon, are our " sensibilities " beginning to assert themselves in remonstrances against those nightly " turns " performed by numerous four-footed friends...

" CHEAP " MONEY AS A MARKET FACTOR. [To THE EDITOR. or THE " SPECTATOIZ."] Sul,—Although business in the Stock Markets is quiet, the tone remains firm, especially for...

COAL COSTS AND COMPETITION : A LARGE PROBLEM YET TO SOLVE. SIR, — Reductions in our coal and coke prices are good, but they must he carried very much further if this country is...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs cre often more read,and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] TORU DUTT. [To THE EDITOR OF...

THE " SPECTATOR."] Sts, —A Highlander in exile has brought to my attention Mr. F. M. Shaw's letter alleging that " the Norsemen were the aboriginals of the Western borders of...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sits,—Some years ago it fell to my lot to conduct a mission for girls in a seaside town. During my stay I was entertained with the greatest...

that mental breakdown is nothing more than an ordinary breakdown or functional derangement, and should therefore be looked at in the same sympathetic manner. This is an...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sts,—Be the article in your issue of August 13th, a temporary illness has prevented me from submitting my reply until now. I hope you will...

THE " SPECTATOR.") Sui,—Your readers who are interested in the Temperance cause will recollect the agreement on various points of reform, including Local Option (covering...

article in the Spectator of August 27th referring to the "bee wine" which is becoming popular in England, I am sending you such information as I have gleaned from observation...

on " America and the Drink Question," which appeared in the issue of August 27th, the writer men- tions a concoction known as "bee wine," and inquires whether any of his readers...

(To THE EDITOR OF TEl " SPECTATOR.") Sut,—The country folks about my home in Maryland sometimes say that they make "bee wine." What it is I cannot say, but when I was a boy and,...

" SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Your plea (Spectator, August 27th) for overhauling the whole administrative machine is unanswerable. It applies mainly, if not wholly, to national services,...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—My knowledge of the book called The Jewish Peril is practically limited to the reading of a few reviews of it in Periodical...

[To THE EDITOR or rat " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The letter in your issue of August 27th as to the tameness of the common tern brings to my mind the even greater boldness of the...

[To sue EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —The Spectator, conducted in the public school spirit, will rejoice in the following. According to the Press, all ranks in the Army are...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—At the Sanitary Inspectors' Conference, held in Bath, there were some interesting and appalling figures shown as to the destruction...

the early romances of William Morris the device of a French refrain in an English poem is used three times:- (1) In " Sir Giles' War-song," e.g., "The clink of arms is good to...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The United States during the war made great efforts to increase her number of merchant ships, and helped the Allies in so doing. She is...

MUSIC AND DRAMA AT GLASTONBURY. IT appears that the labours of the Festival School at Glastonbury are now to be brought to an end, and the performances which have just taken...

(To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sm,—Mr. Geo. E. Low's letter " A Fearless Tern " in your issue of August 27th reminds me of an interesting incident which I witnessed when...

MUSIC'S ECHO. IN my ears it grew, Sounds of joyous laughter, Echo of plunging rivers Flying a rainbow after, And long-breathed notes Of wind through deep caves, With singing...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."4 SIR, —In a letter published in your issue of August 27th a correspondent expresses surprise at a statement in my recent article to the...

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

name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or ars marked "Communicated," the Editor must iwt necessarily be held to Le in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode...

RING EDWARD'S HORSE.* Coeorrne Lunar, Jsznea's History of King Edward's Horse contains an important lesson. This regiment is the kind of irregular body which has normally been...

TEEM first Assembly of the League of Nations, at Geneva last December, adopted a statute establishing a Permanent Court of International Justice and defining its powers, in...

MILITARY students have had to wait a long time for the com- pletion of the valuable Official History of the Russo-Japanese • Official History (Naval and Military) of the...

is given on the lines laid down in this admirable book, the diocese is greatly to be con- gratulated. What Lancashire thinks to-day, England (it has been said) thinks...

memory of the late Brigadier. General Maxwell, who was killed in Flanders in 1917 while commanding the 27th Brigade in the 9th (Scottish) Division, • Frank Maxwell,...

has become an exact science in which psychology plays a part, books like The Natural History of Selborne, which consist of observations made during country walks, cannot be...

BREAKING COVER.t Mn. Mies announces on his title-page that he means to write• a happy, cheerful book for once. Cheerful the book certainly is, but towards the middle and end we...

the task of noticing a Report which contains 823 foolscap pages of closely printed matter. Yet the activities of the Joint Societies of the Rod Cross and St. John refuse to bo...

kiss WOLFF, who is probably known to many of our readers as the author of several little books of French dialogue—lively, colloquial dialogue from which French, as it is spoken,...

SOMP, OBSERVATIONS ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF MODERN POETRY.—V.—A POSTSCRIPT. A CORRESPONDENT has favoured us with some comments on the attempt that has been made in this column...

of the investigation of a mysterious crime, told with the author's invariable skill and dexterity in handling the complex machinery of his plot.—The Storm Man. By John 13....

Captain L. V. S. Blacker, of the Guides, describing the adventures of a small British detachment in Chinese Turkistan in 1918, where it pursued a gang of Bolshevik Turks and...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review] Edinburgh's Place in Scientific Progress. (Chambers. 6s. not.) t For the benefit of the members of the...

League, 74 Grosvenor Street. 4d.)—Mrs. Re-Bartlett's address on the Treaty of Rapallo was well worth printing and deserves to be read, especially by those who wrongly suppose...

Old Children. By A. P. Herbert. Illustrated by George Morrow. (Methuen. 3s. 6d. net.)—Many of Mr. Herbert's rhymes are most amusing, though, like many writers of verse...

Translated by L H. Jeayes. With introduction by W. Gurney Benham. (Colchester Town Council. £2 2s. net.)—The Colchester Corporation, which has already printed its charters and...

Vol. IL (Hakluyt Society : issued to members.)— Barbosa was a Portuguese traveller who visited India in the early years of the sixteenth century, probably before 1518, and also...

Arthur Irwin Dasent. (Murray. Is. 6d. net.)—Mr. Dasent, in this instructive little essay, traces the history of the site of the London Museum from the days when the Abbot of...

8s. 134:1. net.)—Mr. Lethbridge set out to give " a cold Impartial statement of fact," but his impressions of a recent tour in Germany are by no means so dispassionate or so...

de Commerce.)—BL Breanier, the Director-General of the Marseilles Chamber of Commerce, has reprinted in this pamphlet some of the letters which he wrote to English journals to...

pamphlet, in a useful series entitled The World of To-Day, gives a dispassionate account of the problem which faces the country. Until production is increased, by energy and...

net.)—Dr. Fotheringham, who was well known as an historian before he devoted himself to astronomy, made a happy use of his special knowledge in his Halley Lecture at Oxford last...

By George Sampson. (Cambridge University Press. Ss. net.)— This is a spirited and thoughtful plea for the better teaching of English in the elementary schools. Mr. Sampson...

net.)—Fifty of this whimsical draughtsman's pages of satirical sketches are reproduced in a pamphlet. The pictorial narrative in successive scenes, which " Caren d'Ache "...

net), is a collection of clever caricatures of his colleagues and opponents by the great Australian bowler. It will serve as a pleasant memento of a season that English and...