Should our readers experience any di ff iculty obtaining the Srecra.von durin g the summer holidays from Newsa g ents or Roilway Bookstalls, will they please communicate at once...

clear, in a speech at Belfast on Wednesday, that the Govern- ment would proceed with the Home Rule Bill, which will be the first business before the House when it meets next...

stake, and that was not a subject for party warfare. Although he was entirely in sympathy with the workers' demands for better conditions, the rights of the community could not...

last Saturday, anddealt withlreland. Policemen and soldiers, Mr. Lloyd George most reasonably and forcibly pointed out, "don't go burning houses and shooting men wantonly.' How,...

this speech was instantly hailed by Sinn Fein as a fresh "provocation" to Ireland. Mr. Asquith also issued a reply to Mr. Lloyd George through the Preto Association. "Mr. Lloyd...

granted to Ireland, Mr. Lloyd George protested against the doctrine that we must give more to Ireland than had seemed right to Mr. Gladstone, not because Ireland needed more,...

Liberal Council at Llandudno on Friday week. The Irish question was excluded from the speech, which dealt chiefly with the virtues of the Coalition. After an historical defence...

i F we are not mistaken in detecting a marked strengthening in the determination of the Government to prove their recognition of the fact that they can exist only by governing,...

Owing to the Government having taken over our dot premises, Ire tare removed to new offices, 13 York Street, Covent Garden, W.C. 2 , where all communications s ho uld be addressed.

letters submitted to AiDS, but when. stamped and addressed envelopes are rent he will do his bast to return contributions in ease o f re j ection.

as its weapon still flourishes. Probably if the move- ment were traced to its source it would be found that Irish. Americansby direct action or indirect instigation were...

the attacks on the mails continue—with the evident connivance of the Nationalist population—the postal services will be curtailed or stopped in the districts which are affected....

dissents from the idea that the management of Ireland by Great Britain is any longer a trust. "The trust," says Lord Grey, "is a failure." He therefore wants it to be under-...

Ireland, as well as on the police. On Thursday week six police- men going to the post office at Fealde, County Clare, were fired at by men concealed in the building, and two of...

"The first and great commandment is, that all you disloyal rebellious people shall not circulate one dollar of capital in al this land. Not a dollar, no debt or bill of exchange...

Lord Grey of Fallodon to criticisms of his Irish scheme. Lord Grey says that it is not pleasant to differ from Mr. Asquith, but that their private friendship will not be...

bar to peace in Ireland was the campaign of murder and intimidation organized by the Sinn Feinens. No Government could tolerate that, and the Government were determined to put...

which Lord Curzon had addressed to the Bolsheviks and their evasive reply. It is to Sc observed that the Bolshevik organ in London had published Lord Curzon's first note and the...

on Tuesday in London, with Lord Montagu of Beaulieu as chairman. Sir Frederick Sykes, in discussing the development of commercial air services, declared that they must receive...

for Or against the coal-owners' offer of higher wages increasing in Proportion to the total output above 240,000,000 tons a year. Sraillie advised them to accept the offer as a...

not content with their gift of Chequers Court to the nation as a country house for the Primo Minister, "subject to their joint and several life interests," have determined to...

by-election with great ease, polling 2,520 votes more than his Labour and Independent Liberal opponents combined. The figures were : Mr. Wise, 15,612; Mr. King, Labour, i,577 ;...

of Prime Ministers limited to men of wealth. It is also essential that the Prime Minister should have a dignified, butt not too large, country house in which he can get rest and...

said that the Government's policy in the Middle East was not to absorb territory but to give security, "to make peaceful spaces in the chaos, landing places in the storm." He...

been erected on the Embankment near Charing Cross by the Belgians who found refuge in England during the war. IL Delacroix, the Belgian Premier, expressed the gratitude of his...

his long and most successful voyage. He drove from Victoria by a circuitous route to Buckingham Palace, and was everywhere received with a mixture of enthusiasm and informal...

that, while 181,428 miners had voted for the accept- ance of the coal-owners' offer, 635,098 miners had voted against it. The executive of the Miners' Federation recommended...

" administration signed an armistice and a preliminary peace treaty at Riga on Tuesday evening. The main feature of the treaty is the definition of the Polish eastern frontier,...

Apr. 15, 1920; 5 per cont. War Loan was on Thursday, 841; Thursday week, 84i ; a year ago, 95.

• MR. LLOYD GEORGE AND HIS SPEECH. I F we were as "unjustly prejudiced" against Mr. Lloyd George as some of his friends assert, might make several matters in his great speech...

'THE civilized world is suffering from a malady of 1 the spirit as great as, nay greater than, the physical ills of short food, insufficient houses, high prices and low...

T HE unhesitating decision of the miners all over the country to reject the datum line is a great disappointment, but an examination of the facts will relieve the observer of...

rr HE terms of Peace arranged between Russia and Poland are, whatever else may be said about them, an undoubted sign of weakness and war-weariness in Bolshevik Russia. We have...

P HILANTHROPY, in the technical sense of the term, is out of date. Yet never was so much energy ready to be outpoured in voluntary social service. The war has dispelled the old...

E VERYONE with two sound feet now seems to think be (or she) can climb mountains, but the yearly toll of the Alps plainly proves what a delusion this is. Week-end clinching in...

THE BRUSSELS CONFERENCE. [To Tire EnrrOB or Tar " BrIlarATOR."] SIR, — In my letter to the Spectator of September 11th I drew attention to the importance of the forthcoming...

[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.] JEWS. AND REVOLUTION. [To...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I only ask space to deny strongly Dr. Oscar Levy's thesis (as reported by you) that Hebrews object to Gentile criticsm of Hebrews. The...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Stn,--The recent seizure of Italian factories by the workers is well known to your readers, but another form of forcible occupation, which...

[To vas Eurroa or THE " SPECTATOR."1 Els,—The endless innuendos and insinuations of the Spectator against Jewish patriotism might perhaps more wisely he he is a Jew first and, a...

Sts,—Your article in the last number under the heading "Bureaucracy and Salaries," based, as you admit, on a state- ment lacking in authenticity, is calculated to create a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR..1 SIR,—When will the Government realize that it is incumbent upon them to take measures against Sinn Fein propaganda on the Continent? For...

(To THE Erases or no " Sens-mm."1 Sim—The statement in your article last week entitled " Bureaucracy and Salaries" that "Every time that the Ministry of Labour announces an...

week's Spectator dealing with the salaries of Civil Servants gives such an erroneous view of tile matter that I am constrained to send you the actual facts. That there are huge...

of the 9th inst. on Civil Service salaries you refer to the Index Figure, which, it is understood, has increased since 1914 by over 160 per cent. It thus seems obvious that...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") St,—As you remark, the French are not very gracious in their criticisms of us, but our opinion of their newspaper articles may be modified...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—This institution was founded in 1888 for the accommoda- tion of women of the poorer classes who require rest and recuperation by the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] think the following letter which appeared in the New York Times of September 20th last will interest your readers :— " The old Greeks...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEorwroa."1 SIR—Why do we still harp upon the old question of "When will prices come down?" Prices are up because currency is up. Great as may be the...

tTo THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR.") Sre,—I should be sorry to go on record as saying that "all taxation is "Predatory "—that is your printer's error. I wrote of the present...

IT° THE EDITOR Of THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—May I claim the hospitality of your columns to bring to the notice of your readers a matter of great importance? Many of them are...

FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY. (In the metre of the originals.) LOVE LOST. (Meleager.) Om! Eros is lost, the wild boy! 'Twos but this morning Early he slipped out of bed, flew...

" SPECTATOR."1 812,— In your article "The Reason for the Terror," in the Spectator of October 9th, you attribute to an Oxford don the Phrase( "I implore you to think it possible...

fTe TRH EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.”1 SIR,—In your review of The Education Department and Alter, in your issue of the 9th inst., it is stated that, as a Liberal Politician, I have...

name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or am marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode...

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"THE RIGHT TO STRIKE," BY ERNEST HUTCHINSON, AT THE GARRICK. The Right to Strike is a topical play and deals with the great political issues with which we are at the moment...

11,th. ARMY QUARTERLY. WE heartily welcome the new military review, called the Army Quarterly, and we can honestly say that if the subsequent num- bers are as good as the...

AMBASSA0008.—The White-Headed Bay . . 13.30-11ffs [Irish comedy of the Abbey Theatre school. Exception- ally good.] APOLI.0.—Frends Leave .. . • 8.30-2.30 [Amusing comedy.]...

Russian Foreign Office f mm 19013 to 1910 and was afterwards Russian Ambassador in Paris, has left some interesting though fragmentary memoirs, which have been translated from...

SIB ALGERNON WEST has written a pleasant book, illustrated with many portraits, on the many distinguished civil servants who were his contemporaries. He recalls their merits...

WE have drawn attention in our leading columns to the Morning Poet's diagnosis of the disease of social and political unrest from which the world is now unquestionably...

man of knowledge in things African and a keen controversialist, but also a man who, we are sure, has the interests of the British Empire, as well as of the natives residing...

Ormos is very much divided as to the genuineness of The Diary of Opal Whiteley, to which Lord Grey of Fallodon contri- butes a preface. Some critics hail it as "the most...

THE TRAGIC. BRIDE.* Ma. Banxr-Youxers new novel is a more ambitious work than was his Crescent Moon, The Crescent 310018.3988 what Stevenson called a "machine," a type of...

Cambridge. 6s.)—Unequal, but shows knowledge and appreciation of Cornish scenery.— Poem and Verses. By Robert Lutyens. (Baltic Review Offices, Chelsea.)--Good, but derivative....

and Stoughton. 8. 6d. net.)—A Chinese story of which the beginning — where the scene is China —is much more interesting than when the characters are translated to England. There...

net.)—Mrs. Penny in her new book gives a most interesting account of India in the late seventeenth century. The scene is laid in Fort St. George—the governor, Elihu Yale, being,...

pamphlet, issued on behalf of the Joint Conimittee of Russian Co-operative Organiza- tions in London, gives a full account of the way in which the Bolsheviks have treated the...

(1 Elm Court, Temple 68.) has an important article by Mr. Jethro Brown on "Industrial Courts in Australia. " Mr. Brown, who is the President of the Arbitration Court in South...

[Notice in this column does not neeessarily preclude subsequent review.] The Modern Churchman in its current number (Oxford : Blackwell, 3a. net) gives a full report of the...

NEIGHBOURS.* MR. GresoN's readers may possibly be puzzled for a moment by some of the titles at the beginning of his new book of poems, "Philip and Phoebe Ware," "Robert and...

Stoughton. 12s. (3d. not.)—M. Got has published in this book the documents relating to the court-martial on Miss Cavell, with a pungent commentary. The papers, he says, were...

in its October number a good article by Mr. Geoffrey Callender on "The Evolution of Sea. powerunder the firet two Tudors," showing how Henry VIII. built up a large royal fleet...

F. Muirhead. (Macmillan. 15s, net.)—This is the third volume of the "Blue Guides," and like the London and the England, it is excellent. Its main purpose is to serve the...

the British Museum, contributes an instructive and reassuring article on "The Division of Rare English Books between England and the United States" to the September Transactions...

2a. (3ci. net.)—As the Bishop of London says in a preface to this admirable little book, many parents who would like to pray for their sons at public schools are "not quite...

volume in " - The Story of the English Towns" gives a clear outline of the history of a town which from its position and its easily defensible hills has always been of...

Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, a Report of a Conference on the leper problem in India, held at Calcutta in February last. The problem is a serious one, as in 1911 there were...

Chief Rabbi. (H. Milford. 4e. 6d. net)—Dr. Hertz has enlarged the anthology whith he made during the war for the use of Jewish sailors and soldiers. The new edition is well...

Leighton. (Murray. 21s. net..)—George frenville's daughter married Sir Watkin Williams Wynn and was left a widow with six children in 1788. Hex correspondence with her children...