a number of questions about matters omitted from the Speech. Mr. Thomas, on behalf of the Labour Party, expressed a desire for - economy, not by saving " the few hundreds of...

Address regretting that the Government had not promised a Bill " recognizing the right of the genuine unemployed to work or adequate maintenance. " He said that the Govern. ment...

the Sinn Fein rebels had had good results. The rebels no longer dared to murder policemen in orowded streets. The Sinn Fein courts were no longer held. The police were not...

or 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...

Owing to the Government having taken over our old premises, we have removed to new offices, 13 York Street, Covent Garden, W.C. 2, where all communications should be addressed.

T HE Kin opened Parliament on Tuesday with the old State ceremonial that had not been seen since the war began. The King ' s Speech expressed the hope that the Peace Treaties...

of the inquiry into the Cork fires would not be published. The Govern- ment concluded that there had been " acts of indiscipline on the part of some of the auxiliary force, "...

Paris Conference had not proposed a revision of the Peace Treaty. All that it had done was to fix the total sum to be paid in reparation and to propose " an annuity which...

of legislation would be comparatively light. The most pressing problem was that of unemployment ; it was proposed to extend the provision made for persons out of work, though...

Should our readers experience any difficulty in obtaining the SPECTATOR during their absence from home at Newsagents or Railway Bookstalls, will they plotted communicate at once...

with a re-print of a letter written by Cardinal Manning in 1867. We welcome Cardinal Bourne's letter as one of the most explicit admonitions on the subject of violence in...

friendship with America at a dinner which the English- Speaking Union gave to Lord Reading last Saturday. He referred to the invaluable assistance which America had given In the...

in America —entirely unpremeditated by the recipient of the honours— which is being enjoyed by Sir Lewis Bayly. Trust American and British sailors to perform international acts...

found in the application to the Irish situation of what Cardinal Manning said in 1867. The murderers in Ireland were then called Fenians, but the essentials of the situation are...

had become fast friends with Sir Lewis Bayly, who is known. to them as " Uncle Lewis." According to all accounts Admiral Bayly is not a man who is easily pleased, but when he is...

on Sunday, declared once more that the Allies' terms in regard to reparation were not discussable, but he added that Germany would present counter-proposals at the coming...

Lord Milner and Mr. Long resigned office ; Mr. Long was unhappily compelled to do so by illness, which has deprived the Unionist Party of a wise and honest counsellor. Mr....

Lord Milner's entryinto the Order of the Garter. If we have not always been able to see eye to eye with Lord Milner in public policy, we have never doubted the width and the...

the mail steamer. When Admiral Bayly was informed by the captain of the steamer early one morning that the destroyers were surrounding the ship, he hurried up from his berth and...

Post—he was received with a full admiral's salute. The writer of the account says: "A retired British Admiral, travelling as a private citizen, to receive full honours from a...

the Exhibition of Textiles which is now being held at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Actually this exhibition is the most magnificent collection of tapestry that has been...

Apr. 15, 1920; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 85i; Thursday week, 85i; a year ago, 90.

that he is the first person who has ever extracted from the Government a statement of the amounts spent on Public Assistance, sent another valuable letter to the Times on...

known as Scheme " B " for the conversion of Girton and Newnham Colleges into a separate University. Under this scheme the new Women's University would be allied with and...

cheater, Rochdale, and neighbouring towns last Saturday night. In two Manchester works the night watchmen were overpowered by armed ruffians, who then proceeded to set the...

attacks an railway trains in County Cork. On Friday, February 11th, the driver of a train was compelled by two rebels to stop in a cutting near Mallow. Heavy fire was directed...

Jeremiah MacVeagh in a letter to the Times on Tuesday. " I want to be told by Cardinal Bourne," he wrote, " whether trust in the Coalition Government is a Catholic doctrine, and...

report on Saturday last. It found that there was " a lamentable leek of precision " in the agreements made by the Government before and after they assumed control of the...

POLICY AND IMPOLICY IN IRELAND. A DARK shadow was cast over the opening hours of Parliament by the condition of Ireland. By far the more important part of the debate of Tuesday...

THE Labour Party is a disappointment. We say this without any cynical intent whatever, for although we fwd. ourselves in frequent opposition to the Labour Party, we arc among...

W will HAT of the newspaper of the future ? What wi be its form, its moral and intellectual intent, what the nature of its public and of its methods of appeal ? Those are...

W E have described the nature of the old newspaper and Mr. Harmsworth's discoveries which superseded it. Now we must ask again, What is to be the nature of the paper destined to...

O NE way in which the Subconscious works, a way with which we are probably all quite familiar, is in making the main personality forget something which the primitive dislikes or...

W E were all taught as children that a certain solem- nity of demeanour befitted us in church. Our elders ceased to laugh and talk as they went in at the door, and we imitated...

SOME FUNDAMENTAL FACTORS. [To rim EDITOR or TEE " SPEOTATOR."] Six,—Amidst the many controversies as to minor oauses of trade and financial depression, it is of importance to...

[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.] PROBLEMS OF ZIONISM. [To THE...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR-"1 Sus, —Your Australian correspondent's letter on the Irish lack of humour recalls some passages in G. W. Russell's Imaginations and Reveries....

OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, Mr. Harold Cox contends " that the end to be aimed at [the restoration of law and order in Ireland as a part of the Empire] is not worth the means by...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR21 Sia,—In your interesting article of January 29th on Mr. Harold Cox's paper in the Edinburgh your statement that most Englishmen would welcome...

OF THE " SPECTATOR."] have just read Colonel Haggard's letter in your issue of January 22nd. I think had he lived in Ireland recently he would alter his opinion. I lived through...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sut,—May I venture to suggest that the time has come for an amalgamation of a great number of excellent non-party associa- Cons and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] B1R,—It always pleases me to see Mr. Downham's name at the foot of a plumage letter, for he it was who first enlightened me as to the...

is very sensitive to criticism. But would it not be putting their attitude towards Sinn Fein into a nutshell to say that it is deprecatory when it ought to be

Sut,—Thoughtful people have lately been thinking about the unthinkable—the -bare possibility" that misunderstandings between Britain and America might accumulate until they...

I lizpe will receive, the most generous sympathy with his appeals on behalf of the Plumage Bill. That such an effort as he is called upon to make should be necessary affords at...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR.—It is possible that the attention of Parliament will shortly be drawn to the grievance of retired members of Indian Civil Services...

SPECTATOR.") SIR.—Indian politics remind one of a very dangerous kind of child's play. It is as if a number of naughty children had obtained access to a munitions factory and...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sts,—Frederick William Pennefather, LL.D., who passed away on Sunday, February 6th, will be widely mourned all over the world by those who...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Elm—With reference to the letter of Mr. Marsh in the Spec- tator of January 22nd may I point out that Zeller, the greatest authority on...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOB."] have noted some correspondence in your paper relative to the "Lambeth Conference," and especially that reference to the criticism of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Although I cannot, from my own experience, quote an instance of devotion to a literary ideal equal to that which your correspondent has...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR. 1 1 am a flour miller under Government in a district growing English wheat. During the whole time of control there have been no restrictions...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—An ounce of practice is worth a ton of precept. A few months ago the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, in the interests of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] gm —Before the war I remember reading of a scheme—advo- cated in the Spectator—for setting up a factory, or factories, in this country...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Referring to your review of An Encyclopaedia of Occult- ism, the following may be of interest to you :- " In Hone's Works, Vol. IV....

[To THE EDITOR OT THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR; —This is regarded by the fishermen here as a sure sign of bad weather. The phenomenon is fully explained in .R. A. Proctor's work, The...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As I am engaged in a special study of Edmund Gibson, successively Bishop of Lincoln (1716-23) and London (1723-48), I should be...

After the silence 'The twilight deepens, After the twilight The silence 'deepens. And darkness and silence Over desert and mountain Distill on all creatures Thick dew, softest...

THREE PRODUCTIONS OF SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, acted lay the Ben Greet Players at the Hackney Baths ; Antony and Cleopatra, by the O.U.D.S. at the New Theatre, Oxford ; The...

name 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 expressed or with the...

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A MASTER OF METRE.* THAT Frederic Myers was a master of metre is incontestable. It is true he did not ostentatiously proclaim or invent new metres, but nevertheless he was one...

EVERYMAN THEATRE, HAMPSTEAD.—Bernard Shaw Season—Candida, You Never Can Tell, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, Major Barbara, &e. .. 8.15-2.30 [Candida was very...

Tars collection of the letters of William James is presumably to take the place of a regular Life, and so far as informing us • The Letters of William Jame*. Edited by his Son....

MR. ARTHUR PONSONBY is to bo congratulated not only on producing a fascinating book, but on having made a real, if small, contribution to English history. . He has taken his...

MErz Navy Records Society has added to its fine series of publica- tions a memoir of Sir Henry Mainwaring, one of the beet seamen in the Navy of Charles the First. The memoir,...

Wilhelm Bousset published, under the title Kyrios Christos, a history of the development of Christological belief from the ministry of Jesus to the time of Irenaeus (120-202),...

the last seven or eight years taken a turn for the better. It has become less adulatory and at the same time more trustful in Shakespeare's knowing what he was about. Sir A....

the war Mr. Kipling published in the Morning Post a series of articles which took the form of letters written by officers and men in our Indian Armies fighting in France. The...

war not the least interesting are those of which the theme is an escape from a German prison. Many of these high-spirited enterprises still lack their sacred bird, but in Mr....

in the war. The two men, who are of different social standing, fall in love with each other's sisters, and the author works out the resulting situation with much quiet....

THE SWALLOW DIVE.* MR. ANTHONY TROLLOPE in one 'of his novels once made a praise- worthy endeavour to put what he described as " the cart before the horse," that is, to plunge,...

has written us some more nonsense novels. They are very like the former ones and still very funny. Mr. Leacock appears to have two separate ways of amusing.. First, to take some...

F. (Belfast : M'Caw, Stevenson, and Orr. 2s.. 6d.)— "W. H. F.'s" book contains two quite good descriptions of distant mountains. —Shoots in the Stubble. By Max Plowman. (C. W....

Carter Brown Library at Providence, Rhode Island, with a full cata- logue of the early printed books recently purchased, shows us where some of the rarest volumes in the Huth...

MR. SQUIRE'S PARODIES.* Ma. SQUIRE . has collected all his various parodies into one volume with delightful effect. Here are, besides the recently re-published Tricks of the...

Unwin. 5s. net.) — When a small boy pulls his watch to pima; and then cannot make it go, he gets angry and then invites sympathy. Mr. Ransome asks readers to feel sorry for the...

2s. 6d. net.)—This interesting little book describes the traditional observances connected with the Fourth Sunday of Lent or Mothering Sunday, called " Laetare " from the...

iNblice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review) Hamlet and the Scottish Succession. By Lilian Winstanley. (Cambridge University Press. 10s. net.)—Miss...

India, has recently issued his Annual Report for 1914-15 (Calcutta : Superintendent of Government Printing, 19 rupees), which was delayed by the war. It contains a long account...

6d. net each.)—This remarkably compact little encyclo- paedia is now complete. The last two volumes run from Riga to Tankpa, and from Tanks to Zymotie. The short article on...

6s. net.)—The learned editor of the Selden Society's publications gives in these instructive and entertaining lectures a lucid account of the Year Books which report the...

VI. Collected by A. C. Bradley. (Clarendon Press. Cs. 6d. net.)—This little book opens with a study of Mr. Henry Bradley of the Genesis attributed to Caedmon, and often sup-...

6d.)— Is it a New World ? is a reprint of a correspondence which was started in the Daily Telegraph with an article by the Dean of St. Paul's. As is usual in this sort of...

1921, edited by A. G. M. Hesihige (Dean and Son, 17s. 6d. net), appears in its fifty-fifth edition in time for the new session. It is commendably accurate, except that the...

spondence started in its columns last December under the title of Future of Navies : Great Ships or —? with the articles suggested by the long controversy. Admirals Sir Percy...

in 1915 at the instance of the Ministry of Munitions, decided to continue its work after the war for_ the benefit of colonists and intending settlers. Its report for 1921, which...

excellent London Atlas Map of Europe (4s. net), showing the new political divisions as defined in January, 1921. It is boldly coloured and shows clearly the new States of...