striking article on the Ulster crisis by " A Unionist Leader." The Yorkshire Post stated that though it could not publish the writer's name it was able to say that he had " the...

that Mr. Bonar Law has exerted- and is exerting an influence which does the greatest credit to both his head and heart. He is going to maintain his plighted word. Here are the...

T HE chief event of the week has been the attempt on the part of the Prime Minister to coerce Ulster. By threats in the leading columns of the " kept " portion of the Unionist...

in the Dominion of Ireland it would have no more political con- nexion with Westminster than the province of Quebec has to-day." • lie concludes with the, following warning...

Ulster rebels by the very fact of resistance. He next points out that Unionist pledges to Ulster are very pritise, for Unionists have promised never to compel Ulster to form...

if sometimes inclined to trust to others rather that to himself. At the supreme trial he has, however, shown himsel: a man. " Among the faithless, faithful only he ; Among...

the pro-Ulster Unionists were not strong enough to form a Government, the King would send again for Mr. Lloyd George, who, like Sir Robert Peel in the case of Roman Catholic...

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

industry for credits on a large scale with which to meet the payments to the Allies. The capitalists, headed by Herr Stinnes, demanded that the State should sell all its under-...

Conference his definite proposal for reducing naval armaments all round. We give the details elsewhere. The main features of the scheme are : (1) a " naval holiday" for ten...

which have heen published in, the Press. about the policy of the Government towards Ulster. .Mr. McNeill stated that he could not possibly follow the Government if their policy...

Wednesday evening. At each meeting a telegram from Sir James Craig, who is in London. was read. " May I ask you," ho said, a simple though momentous question ? Will you support...

the burial of America's Unknown Warrior in Arlington Cemetery, welcomed on the following day the Allied representatives at the Conference on armaments and Far Eastern questions....

and accepted it in principle. Japan was ready to make sweeping reductions in her Navy, though she would suggest a few modifications in detail with regard to tonnage as a measure...

revered in future as one of the most important in the history of mankind. The American proposal, which was presented by Mr. Hughes and which combined . vision with a firm hold...

proposing a great reduction of armaments and leaving policy to look. after itself. We are firmly convinced that this was the right method. Nothing else could have succeeded, and...

communications are the conduit-pipes by which our food arrives. If they are broken, we starve. But America is a vast world in herself, and whatever happened at sea she could...

accepted the American 'proposal with hearty good will. Mr. - Hughes's speech, he said, had been a great ,historic event. Mr. Balfour reminded his audience _ahat, unlike...

his promised visit to the Borstal. Institute 'at Portland, where several attempts at escape or suicide have taken place lately among the boys. Three more attempts to escape were...

Nov. 3, 1921; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 88 ; Thursday week, 871 ; a year ago, 83/.

at some length the course of affairs and declared that good progress had been made towards the solution of the most critical problems. Expenditure must be still further...

said that he was willing to co-operate with Lord Grey of Fallodon because he agreed with him. Their union would not be a coalition but rather a new arrangement of parties. Lord...

and occupied a large area of Albanian territory is so far confirmed that the British Government have summoned the Council of the. League of Nations to meat and consider the...

improved by new devices which ho explains, and that the " coalite " is quite equal to anthracite and can bo produced at a profit. As 833 tons of slack have been carbonized...

New York last week, said that the general opinion in America was opposed to the cancelling of the Allied war loans. No proposal to cancel the British loan had been made....

to the best advantage, we may draw attention to a report br Sir Percy Girouard, in the current issue of the /roe and Coat Trades Reriew, on the working of Messrs. Close...

Ednam, standing as a Consefvative, was returned by a majority of 2,016 over Mr. Burgin, the Independent Liberal. Lord Ednam polled 15,959 votee, and Mr. Burgin 13,943. About...

Major- General Sir Borlase Childs has been appointed to succeed Sir Basil Thomson as head of the Special Branch at Scotland Yard. Sir Borlase Childs did good work in the War,...

the Board of Trade index figure which takes an average of the retail prices of food, clothes, etc. At the beginning of the month the figure was 110. On November 1st it had...

held at the Central Hall, Westminster. Block-printed and hand- woven materials, " decorative trifles," candlesticks, raffia ornaments, embroidery and, above all,' toys were...

THE DOUBLE BETRAYAL. Mr. Lloyd George has given a pledge to the Unionist Party and the people of North-East Ulster in the following words " I can support no settlement which...

Americans are at once the most idealistic and the most practical people in the world. They vibrate between Emerson and Edison. That this should be so is neither strange nor...

T O judge by the conversations one hears in these fines of political upheaval and by the comments one reads in the newspapers, one might think that one of the most urgent...

L ENIN, the author and head of the organization , which administers Communism by, means of the Soviets, has admitted the economic collapse of his system. That a very important...

W E wonder that the recent assertions of Professor Pickering, of Harvard, with regard to the moon have not created more stir than they have done. A - short time since the...

THE WASHINGTONCONFERENCE. THE CITY AND NAVAL EXPENDITURE—HOPES ANn FEARS—THE IRISH CRISIS—THE OUTLOOK FOR SECURITIES—BANKING AND INSURANCE SHARES FIRM—BETTER TRADE...

[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.] FREE TRADE AS THE...

[To ME EDITOR or THE " SPEOUTOR."3 SIR, —When considering the existing system it is right that the difficulties under which it is working should be realized. The numbers now...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—I read With great pleasure your well-informed article, " Work for the Unemployed," in your issue of November 5th, and I have now seen...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Mr. A. F. Buxton in your issue of October 29th sny3: " Statesmanship must be constructive." I agree with and I should also like to...

THE " SPECTATOR." ] SIR,—One cannot but agree with the desirability of a longer training for midwives. One would also urge that practicing midwives, and especially those who...

of November 12th a correspondent asks you the authority you have for suggesting the possibility of finding " work for unemployed " by adopting the new methods of carbonizing...

" SPECTATOR."] Sin,—If one may judge from the letters to the Press contri- buted by well-known financiers, all are agreed that if trade is to revive some means must be found...

OF THE " SPECTATOR."" SIR, Z1 ' ill you kindly draw the attention of the readers of your valuable paper to the claims of the St. Gifes Homes for British Lepers on their charity?...

[To 71IE EDITOR OF THE " &ECM ."1 Smz, — Iu a recent article of your issuing I noticed a lack of knowledge of S. F. B. Morse, crediting him only with the dis- covery of the...

" SPECTATOR."' SIR, In a letter which I wrote during the summer I men- tioned that tho Selborno Society was interesting itself in cinematography. The time has evidently come...

[To ME EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' Sia,—Mr. C. D. Howard begins a letter in the Spectator of October 29th by casting doubt on the " intimate knowledge " of your leader...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR, — Tho problem of unemployment presents itself in various aspects and threatens to intensify. with the oncoming winter.. The thrift of...

GODIVA. FROM the doorway when she crept, Head abased and hand that kept The shining shaking cloak around her, The golden cloak that light enwound her Neck to knees, Lone she...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Preci€elyoone hundred years ago the poet Southey wrote these lines:— "How long, 0 Ireland, from thy guilty ground • Shall...

lettere submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelop' are eent he wilt do his best to return contributions in case of reltct'Cr } Poems should be addressed to the...

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

‘' THE MAID'S TRAGEDY." BY BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. THE PHOENIX SOCIETY. THE Phoenix Society have added another success to their long list, and have once more earned the thanks...

MUSIC IN A FOG. Mn. Goossess's Orchestral Concert on November 0th wai given under anything but pleasant conditions. The fog from the streets outside had found its way into the...

YORK'S—K. K. ARDASCHIR. IT is a pity that Mr. Ardaschir's play is so had, for it possesses good qualities—it is straightforward, honest and sincere. Mr. Ardasehir is...

ALIIAMBP.A.—The Sleeping Princess .. .. 815 2.30 [M. Serge Diaghileff's ballet in a setting by M. Leon Bakst. The matt elaborate ballet that the Ituselans have yet given us.]...

SCHOLARSHIP AND SERVICE.* THE university plays a much greater part in the life of America than it does as yet in the life of England: Happily, however, this disgrace, for it is...

in one of our first page notes an allusion to facts which are brought out in the recently published Report of the Commissioners of Prisons and Directors of Convict Prisons upon...

SIR Lin HAMILTON is probably the most gifted writer in the British Army. He has a natural love of writing ; his command of words and ideas, the easy play of his fancy, his...

Da. DILLON, who has been known for many years as a well- informed student of European politics, has now turned his attention to America, and has written a powerful statement of...

MRS. Scarier., a grand-daughter of Ford Mados Brown and a niece of Dante and William Rossetti, has written an engaging book about her childish memories. It is difficult,...

Mn. R. G. Haw - TREY, a Treasury official, has contributed to the useful series entitled The World of To-day an instructive little treatise on The Exchequer and the Control of...

the present moment enter into a discussion of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, or of the revolutionary activities of a section of the Jewish population of Europe, we must...

exposition of a belief which has been curiously neglected since the best days of the now too little known scholastics. M. Mangenot's unfinished Dictionnaire de Thdologie...

Ma. ALEXANDER MACKINTOSa, well known as the London correspondent of the Aberdeen Free Press and as the biographer of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, has written a kindly volume of...

TIM Society for Pure English, which has its seat at Oxford .and is guided by some of -the makers of the great Oxford Dictionary, has issued several instructive pamphlets during...

The Young Enchanted. By Hugh Walpole. (Macmillan. ild. net.)—It is difficult to discover the exact reason why Mr. Walpole divides the works of fiction which he publishes into...

lid. net.)—It is pleasant to be able to say of a young author that his work improves with every novel he publishes, and this is certainly the case with Mr. Denis Maekail, but,...

Stoughton. (7s. 6d. net.)The problem which -here confronts the reader is a very old one. It is the problem of •social. conven- tions, of how to reconcile their utter...

TWO PLAYS' BY MR. GORDON BOTTOMLEY.• THE first of the two plays in' this- new book of Mr. Gordon I3ottomle is, like his King Lear's- Wi e, an attempt to reconstruct Ohm* and...

to such whimsicalities as the following quotation from "A Fish Story," intended as a warning to a young collegian on the downward path :- " A whale of high porosity, And low...

there is a good deal of charm in the first story of this collection, " The Enchanted House," Miss Harraden can do much better work than she gives us in. some of the other...

net.)—A first novel, chiefly memorable for its record of the author's detailed observation of animal life in field and- wood and of natural phenomena in generrit—Nightshade....

ILLUSTRATED BOOKS AND REPRINTS. LADY WOLSELEY, " citizen and gardener of London," as she styles herself on her title-page, has compiled a delightful volume, The Countryman's...

WE have come to look for a new book by Sir Henry Newbolt at this season every year. In The Book of the Grenrilles (Long- mans, 7s. Gd. net) he relates with ease and precision...

and H. Latimer Jackson. (Cambridge University Press. 6s. net.) —This is an admirable introduction to a language which should be better known in England for the sake of the...

Press. 7s. 6d. net.)—On behalf of the Oxford Institute for Research into Agricultural Economics, Miss Woods made last year a thorough inquiry into the small rural industries...

for " - he China Inland Mission. 3s. 6d. net.)—This is a good and concise account of the Moslems of Arab, Turk and Mongol extraction in the province of Kansu, where the author...

Windus. 7s. Od. net.)—Perle, the fourteenth-century elegy, receives a most appropriate setting in the Mediaeval Library indeed, it could have no better form than as a small "...

(Notice in this column doss not necessarily preclude subsequent maw.] Professor J. Arthur Thomson is editing a new serial publica- tion entitled The Outline of Science, the...

To-Day, by A. R. Hope Moncrieff (Gresham Publishing Cd., 15s. net each), are devoted respectively to North and Central America, and to South America. The photographic...

and Hodder & Stoughton. 168. net.)—This is the second yearly issue of a publication which affords international lawyers the opportunity of discussing current problems. It is...

Europe, printed in colours, which shows the new.political boundaries with railways and a large number of place-names. An inset-map gives the old boundaries. The price is only a...

Peters, Ph.D., and Phyllis Blanchard, Ph.D. (Kegan Paul. 10s. 6d.)—Taboo and Genetics, though it does not pretend to a conclusive treatment of the subject, will prove a...

J. C. G. Kunhardt. (Rickinson and Son. 2s. 6d. net.)--In this thoughtful pamphlet Major Kunhardt discusses the position of the rubber industry during the past month in the light...

Friends, has passed through two editions at a high price, and now reappears in a cheap, unabridged edition (Murray. 6s. net). It is a fascinating book about a remarkable man and...

reasonable number of smiles. Mr. Milne tells, among other things, of a patriotic pianola with which he achieved some dis- tinction before the War by playing " The Charge of the...

of Works by William De Morgan, which are in the Department of Ceramics (Stationery Office : ls. net, post free ls. lid.), with a short account of De Morgan's career and a...