of Belfast, asked the Home Secretary "whether, in view of the insults repeatedly offered by Sum Feiners in the South and West of Ireland to the American flag and the American...

Making Pro, ress." Among therub-headings we read : " News comes from Paris that Lloyd George at the instigation of Colonel House will discuss the question of Ireland's...

IllHE state of Ireland has become worse rather than better, _L and there is no prospect of improvement no long as the Government are divided in counsel. On one side we see the...

of Commons en Wednesday, as it led nowhere. Mr. Hartshorn and his supporters had no proposal of the slightest value to make. Lord Henry Bentinck declared that he had become...

on Thursday week, the Manchester Guardian has the following sentence : "You cannot with impunity violate national self- consciousness or place people of a higher civilization...

have taken from the beginning. It was never right, ar: Z never could be Fight, to parley with visitors who, as was well known all the time, came over to help sedition. A...

now changed his mind about receiving the American citizens because he was unwilling to receive those who " not only took part in politics in Ireland, but took part in a...

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

from the Finns in the lake region north of Petrograd. The Bolsheviks had threatened to invade Finland, and the Finnish advance seems to be a counterstroke. British ships are at...

chorus of indignation by the German Press and the German politicians. The German Premier, Herr Scheidemann, de- nounced the draft Treaty as " marderous " in a -speech to the...

that they - rendered illusory the promise of a "Peace of right." Some of the demands "no nation could endure " ; many of them "could net possibly be carried out." The Allies...

badly by invading British territory. Last week Afghan troops crossed the ft ontier west of the Khyber Peas and occupied some bills near Landi Kotal. They were driven from these...

the fact that, according to various messages from Paris, Mr. Lloyd George has " cancelled " his arrangement to meet the Irish-American delegates on their return to Paris. Since...

view of the reports which have reached Paris of the activities of the delegates in Ireland, has decided not to act as an intermediary between them and Mr. Lloyd George. That is...

that their economic demands would pass "the death sentence" on "many millions" of Germans, and that the restoration of the Polish and Danish provinces and the Belgian districts,...

Irish- American delegates and the Shut Fein Republic is that supplied by the New York World :— " Americans-are privileged persons. If an English organization were to send...

be that they considered themselves and proclaimed themselves during the war the allies of Germany. But the Americana were then fighting against Germany. Therefore at the moment...

greeted the Irish-American delegates encountered in one of their processions in Dublin a Union flag flown by an Irish lady. The flag was stoned and the windows of the house from...

on Wednesday in a destroyer, for interment in Norwich Cathedral after a military funeral service in Westminster Abbey. We are profoundly glad that her countrymen have been...

design of the War Medal to be issued in commemoration of the war has been awarded to Mr. Macmillan, of 14 Cheyne Row, Chelsea. The design represents a St. George on horseback...

the last twenty years, and particularly during the war, towards the building of that bridge. He has been the Ambassador of understanding between America and Britain. His work...

between the Central and Provincial Governments, and between the British and native Departments in the provinces. The Excise and education, for example, are to be managed by the...

have offered to lease the National Shipyards on the Wye to the Federation of Engineering and Shipbuilding Trades. A vast amount of public money has been spent on these yards,...

the Idontagn-Chelmsford Report, after inquiry in India, have published their conclusions. Lord Southborough's Committee recommends for the Provincial Councils a property...

the Allied losses of tonnage during the war. They are as follows :— reat Britain .. 7,638,020 France .. 696,845 Itaiy 74.2,365 Japan , . 120,176 United States 341,512 Thus the...

correspondent of the Chicago Daily News, was enter. Mined on his departure for a visit to his home in the United States. In a very eloquent speech Mr. Bell drew a picture of the...

"—without its cynical addition, "and may they never meet "—would be drunk all the more heartily in ships last week by men who had just learned that their womeakind had now been...

THE PEACE AND THE LEAGUE.—ROCKS AHEAD. W E hold that the dangers and difficulties involved in forming and working a League of Nations are clearly tremendous, and wish that a...

MILE Coal Commission has developed into something of a scandal—perhaps an amusing scandal, but still a scandal. This country has a fine political record in the solution of...

TF men's minds had not been so deeply occupied with the Peace Treaty last week, there would have been a great outburst of excitement at the proposed Treaty by which Great...

W E have often had occasion during the war to wonder . at the average German's inability to take any point of view except his own. The enemy could and did break all the rules of...

W HEN a man so many-sided as the late Provost of Trinity passes away after eighty years of strenuous life with some thirty books to his credit, with a long record of service to...

Y EARS ago we maintained in the Spectator that the spare room was an English institution whose importance in the formation of national character could hardly be over- estimated....

SPAIN'S OPPORTUNITY. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] STH,—It may seem to some observers that the new Spanish Government organized by Don Antonio Maura is but one Ministry...

[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.) -- THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS....

[To THE Dines OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—/ am directed by my Council to let you know that, in view of the present unsatisfactory condition of the building trade, the Royal...

[To run EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—It is sometimes amusing to prophesy in regard to political events. Will you allow me to indulge my whim? If by tide time next year my...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIE,—The Times of May 10th reproduced part of an article from the Dutch Ifandefsblad to the effect that Holland could not possibly assent to...

[To THE EDITOR or TIM " SPECTATOR.") SIE,—The Coal Commission is frankly a political manceuv re. The economic theories, dialectics, and other fireworks which have been let off...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECT/TOR-'1 Sun,—There seems still to be a great deal of uncertainty as to the best way of rejoicing on the conclusion of Peace. The various proposals...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] tra,—In your interesting article on this subject you emphasize the need for co-operation between the forces making for order and patriotism, a...

many of your readers have much appre- ciated your article in last Saturday's number, "How to Fight Bolshevism," and would be glad to join either the National Unity Movement or...

(TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sta,—Perhaps you will kindly allow me to offer a few remarks regarding the letters that appeared recently in your interesting weekly. The...

" SPECTATOR."1 Sim—The Bishop of Oxford presented to the House of Bishops a petition signed by fourteen" representative elerygmen " who Kay "It is not permissible to admit...

(To Tan EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."7 SIR,—It Seems to me that your correspondent "Presbyter Seotus . St Ignotus (Spectator, May 3rd) gives away his ease by admitting as he does...

(To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."7 Sun,—One cannot blow hot and Mow cold." If the Yugo- Slays deny the right of the Italians to annex towns which have a considerable Italian...

" SPECTATOR.”7 Sue—Stay I be allowed to protest against the statement in your review of Colonel Repington's Vestigia that the Duke of Wellington was a callous man? I thought...

the least of the Many anomalies in the premnt methods of collecting the Income Tax is that by which an Englishman resident and employed in India or other of our Colonies is,...

[To sue Fames Ow ins " Besereroa."] Sia,—This subject has been much brought before the public of late, and many new schemes for promoting it are started. Why is it that existing...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTIM014.") Sin,—The preparation of a Memoir of the late Very Rev. H. Montagu Butler, D.D., formerly Head-Master of Harrow School, Dean of Gloucester,...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTITOlt."1 Ste,—My letter to the Press in November has brought me much correspondence and some criticisms. It is a somewhat curious coincidence that...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR."1 Sra,—Yon kindly allowed me to address a letter to you on the above subjeot some weeks ago, and I would again ask your indulgence. I have just...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " 13PEOTATOE."] Sue—The article on "Impersonal Possessions" in the Spectator of May 3rd was most interesting, especially to one just emerging from the...

[To nu EDITOR or ma " Srecrarea.") Sut,—In reference to the Spectator's letters on kindness to animals, I recollect, when riding a donkey on Italian hills, remonstrating with...

THE INTERNATIONAL AT THE GROSVENOR GALLERY. A merest. of the International Society would certainly be an interesting thing, but the justification of the Society must be the real...

CHANT INTIME. Asap the flowering oaks to-day, From.some small breast I could not see, A little mezzo-voce lay— An airy, murmuring melody— Came whisperingly. My bird-friends I...

(To TEM Eorrea or rut " Sezerssmi.'1 Sm.—Perhaps I might as well give the remainder of my reoord, copied from the tombstone in High Email Churchyard. First come the verses that...

THEODORE ROOSEVELT.* MR. HAGEDOSN'S spirited volume is in the main an attempt, and in our opinion a highly successful attempt, to show that Mr. Roosevelt acted up to his maxim...

We suggest that there can be no better Present in Peace or War than an Annual Subscription to the Spectator. He or she who gives the Spectator as a present will give a weekly...

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 expreesed or with the mode of...

THERE are rich veins of romantic history lying unworked in the records of the old East India Company, in Whitehall. Mr. Arnold Wright prospected them some time ago, and, as the...

THE standpoints of the lecturers whose addressee, delivered at King's College, London, last autumn, have been brought together in this book—the Bishops of Hereford and...

A 0131110II9 barrier separates Mr. Yeats's prose from his verse. It- is not merely that the style is deliberately artificial, for, as we understand him, style ought in his...

"WREN reading Memoirs," says Mrs. Peel, "I have often reviled the author's discretion. . . . But now that I essay to write a book of Recollections I, too, alas I find myself...

IT was a happy thought to republish the two most popular collections of poems by the most famous of Bengali authors with illustrations by four leaders of the new school of...

Sin Flux= Patoaave, whose collected works are being re- edited with loving care by his last surviving son, was a pioneer to whom the students of mediaeval history in England are...

6s. net.)—An account of a canteen run at a railway junction in the front line in France by the "CEuvre du Quart de Jus," and presided over by the two " vagabonds " of the title,...

(Notice in this cohenn does not necessarity preclude tubsequerd ream.] The New Physiology, and other Addresses. By J. S. Haldane, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S. (Charles Griffin. 8s. fkl....

net.)—The 'Southampton,' in which the author served till after Jutland, was present at all four of the principal navel actions of the war. The light cruisers attached to the...

modern artists this book will be a help. Without being a profound study of the art of the etcher, it offers sensible advice, and is illustrated by a number of photogravures. Mr....

THE GRAFTONS.t READERS who enjoyed Abington Abbey will welcome the appear- ance of the sequel, in which the further experiences of George Grafton and his daughters are unfolded...

Firth. (H. Milford for the British Academy. 2s. net.)—" I venerate that villainous adventurer," said Lord Acton in writing of Ralegh, "for his views on universal history."...

6(1, net.)—This invaluable guide to current literature, which goes back to the year 1801, deserves a word of praise. It appears in the familiar form. Last year the number of...

Murray. 10s. 6d. net.)—The late Miss Macnaughtan, we think, drew upon her Belgian diary to some extent for her earlier book, A Woman's Diary of the IVar, but there is plenty of...