had any imagination, any sense of the dramatic, any sense of what makes nations understand each other, would be to show a little warm-heartedness. They would of their own accord...

/THE Press has not gone in the least beyond the truth when it speaks of the Royal visit to Belfast as the King's triumph. It is that without flattery or exaggeration. There was...

of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, and put what we believe to be the unanswerable case against renewal. Here we must record the fact that though during the past week the subject...

is another futility. Unionists will one and all support the Govern- ment in the sternest warfare on murder and sedition in Ireland. Even those who, like ourselves, think that if...

Wednesday to open the first Parliament of Northern Ireland. He had a most enthusiastic reception at the hands of the loyal Ulster people. The King's Speech was admirably attuned...

intrigue in regard to tho Parliamentary position of the Government. The rumours will, however, not be resolved in time for our comment, since we go to press on Thursday too...

Readers experiencing difficulty in obtaining the " Spectator " regularly and promptly should become yearly subscribers. The yearly subscription, including Postage to any address...

terms yielded an unwelcome surprise for the country and, it would seem, for the Miners' Federation Executive. Every district showed a majority for rejecting the terms. In all,...

which bad helped to preserve peace and fair play in the Far East. We desired to preserve the well-tried friendship of Japan, and to apply it to the solution of all questions in...

speech made by Mr. Hodges at the Labour Party's Conference at Brighton—the passages in which he resigns Labour's claim to rule us by Direct Action, and in effect lays it down...

Dominions and India who had come to attend the Imperial Conference. The war, he said, had exhausted the belligerents, but at home there was no such distress as Great Britain...

problem of the moment—that is,.the -return of the miners to work--.was -touched on with genuine feeling and also with dis- cretion. It ran as follows There they stand, a...

of the result of the ballot, and said-that the strike was to continue. Apparently he expected the Prime Minister to make some new proposal. Mr. Lloyd George on Saturday last...

the executive, in their refusa l to admit the Coinmunist -Party. Mr. Herbert Smith, the miners' leader, said that the Milers' Federation " aa a- body" did not believe in...

the greatest possible sympathy with the men, for they have seen blunder after blunder committed by those who under- took to lead them to victory. Who can wonder if they feel...

resumption of work, but only in the Cannock Chase district of Staffordshire did miners return in large numbers. It was apparent in the Midlands and in East Lothian and elsewhere...

concerted attack on various signal-boxes on the railways outside London. They used motor-cars—in one case stealing- a taxi-cab from the unwary cabman, who was.assaulted and...

shown in the East Hertfordshire by-election on Thursday, June 18th. Mr. Pemberton Billing,the Independent member, had resigned. In his place the electors returned Admiral...

pointed the-moral of the East Hertfordshire election and earlier contests of a similar character. Sir Hildred Carlile was beaten because he supported the Coalition, which no...

death, following upon an operation, of Mr. Claude Levitt Fraser, author of the scenery and costumes for. As You Like h, The Beggar's Opera, and Lord Dunsany's If. If Mr. Lovat...

Imperial Conference on Friday, June 17th. Sir John Davidson said that with the Dominions, who put into the field a million troops of unsurpassed quality, we could do anything if...

large audience at the Institut Francais. Mr. A. B. Walkley was in the chair and Mr. Bernard Shaw proposed a vote of thanks. M. Brieux, among other points, made a spirited...

a league of nations, meeting in conference on terms of equality, autonomous and-yet united. The initiative in proposing changes should come - from the Dominions. The Government...

attaeks .oa.the troops - and police in Dublin, without doing much harm except to unfortunate passers-by. Near Ifillstreet, County CO*, last-week, a police patrol was ambushed,...

23, 1921 . ; 6 ppeer cent. War. Loan was on Thursday, .574; ursday week, 871; a year ago, 84k.

THE JAPANESE ALLIANCE. I T is time that the Home Government and the Prime Ministers of the sister nations of the Empire, now in conference, should judge of the advisability of...

O N Tuesd a y Mr. Frank Hodges made a speech which without exaggeration texaggeration can be described as a great speech, and what is much better than a great speech, a...

r 11.E Lord Chancellor made it plain in his speech in the House of Lords on Tuesday that the Govern- ment ,would persevere with the policy which they have adopted in Ireland....

f` Who has blonderedlheee thynges onithio faryon ?"--Palsgrave (circa 1530) [quoted2in Weekley's Etymological' Dictionary of 11140,erntlinglislo]. rrtil ERE used to. be. one...

I T is one of the paradoxes or rather curiosities of litera- ture that the decadent or Byzantine epochs show many of the characteristics of the Golden Age. Perhaps, hewever, it...

if we may be allowed the phrase—nearly all connect themselves with a shortage of money. They afflict the comparatively poor—those, we mean, who, while they have never felt the...

GLEAMS OF LIGHT. [To . ma EDITOR OP TEE "SPECTATOR."] Slit, —At the moment of 'writing the Stock Exchange is so thoroughly gloomy, and is so inclined to throw over all its...

[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 ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE....

" SPECTATOR."' SIR,—A few notes on the four-day session of the International Conference of Associations for the League of Nations may be of interest. The most prominent...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' Sin,—I have read with much interest the leading article in your issue of June 11th. Perhaps you would allow me to enumerate our objects as...

(To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In the Spectator of June 18th, p. 766, you mention : " We have heard of no protests from the Romish Church." You evidently had not seen...

THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—As Colonel Melville truly observes, there are two dis- tinct types of mankind still inhabiting the northern parts of Scotland. The . smaller type, there...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sus,—I read the article on " Centres for Medical Treatment" in your issue of June 18th with great interest, and also your footnote saying...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Snt,—Having had during my fifty years of medical practice, including hospital and dispensary work, abundant opportuni- ties of seeing the...

the hospitality of your columns to suggest tho desirability of some branch of the Middle Classes Union or some rich member of such body to undertake the reprint of your leading...

Sta,—Is not the answer to Colonel Melville's question this? The small, swarthy men met with in the Highlands and in parts of Ireland and. Wales are not of Celtic origin at all,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sni,—Some of your readers may care to read a small personal reminiscence df Wards Fowler, student, scholar, historian, and lover of birds,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,--SOTII0 of your readers might possibly be interested to know that a Passion Play, beautiful as to acting and staging, is being...

[To-me Eames or ens ," Seacerroa."] believe your readers might be interested in.the following little story of a corncrake. Our gardener and his wife have a cat to whioh they...

SIR,—Your correspondent Mr. J. Challenor Smith is quite right as to the scarcity of the swallows this summer. We,. how- ever, cannot blame the Italians for the cause this...

[To Tee Ferree or Tax " Sexceeron.”1 Sale—The great destruction of swallows takes place not:in Italy but in France. Before the war I heard that strong currents are sent along...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—Mr. F. Jobling asks what I was aiming at in my letter in your issue of May 28th, I am happy to tell him, although the answer seems...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—By request of several of your readers we ask your kind help to make widely known the following points : (1) The Bill before Parliament...

ITo THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sni,—I hope one of your readers may be able to identify two birds I saw here yesterday (June 12th). They were about the size of a thrush,...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are »narked " Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with .the mode...

THE DIAGTEILFiFF BALLET AT PRINCES THEATRE. Tee Russian Ballet is the one entertainment to which it is justifiable to apply the term "brilliant" -in the particular sense that...

SOME DIFERENCES FROM THE EiNSTEM THEORY OF RELATIVITY.* LORD HALDANE has written a book which deals with a very much wider range of subject than are involved in those purely...

RAIN IN SPRING. Cloud films that hardly stain The sky's blue hall Gather, dissolve, .and fall In ,sudden visitations of bright rain. Then the soft voice of seas Is heard in...

but when stamped and addressed.envelopes aresent he will do his. best to return contributions intease of rejection. Poesns 'should be addressed to the Peetry.Editor.

for Central Edin- burgh, has produced a sane and helpful book on the wages question. Most Labour politicians who write on this subject are either ignorant of economics or...

say that this is a very disappointing book. Every student of English literature who remembers the appearance of the poems of Torn Dutt—the volume intrc- duencl by Mr. Gosse—in...

MR. CHESTER'S new biography of M. Venizelos is very well worth reading. It describes clearly the career of a remarkable man, and, it throws much light on recent events in...

Is IS commonly supposed that the National Asseinbly abolished feudalism in France on August 4th, 1789. The Assembly said that •it had done so •on that memorable night when, in...

book Captain Francis McCullagh describes his experiences among the Bolsheviks from January to April of 1920. He was a member of the British Military Mission at Omsk, and his...

SISTERS-IN-LAWat OF the brilliant group or " bunch " of Californian beauties who figure prominently in Mrs. Atherton's latest novel, we are told that Alexina Groome was the most...

MR. SQUIRE'S ANTHOLOGY.* THE fact that will probably strike the reader most on looking through Mr. Squire's Selections from Modern Poets is the remarkable gap that the omission...

8s. 6d. net.)—Cynthia Moon and Clarence March, two lonely girls in London, decide to adopt each other's names, for reasons which the reader must discover for himself. The real...

net.)—An exposition of the working of the American divorce laws in Bohemian New York. The title of the book and the optimistic note which prevails throughout lead the reader to...

and Hall. 30e. net.)—Mr. Hall published the first edition of his useful book just -before the war. This new edition has thus had to be in great part rewritten. It is a...

throlim.in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.) Edward Prince of Wales. By G. Ivy Sanders. (Nisbet. 2s. 6d. net.)—This pleasant and unpretentious...

University Press. 24s. net.)---Dr. Nicholson has described in this work the life and teaching of three famouaSufis or mystics, the Persians Alm Said (967-1049) and Al-Jill...

Bddier's Romanee Lecture, delivered on June 4th, was a brilliant analysis of the Chanson de Boland, the first of the spies of chivalry and one of the products of the great...

University Press. 40s. net.)—Professor Lindsay has performed a very difficult task -in editing " F.ngland's oldest dictionary," an eighth-century glossary in the library of...

translation first appeared in 1134. Sir Edward Denison Ross, in a preface to this comely reprint, says that Sale's version has not been superseded, and that his " prelimi- nary...

New York : Association Unity of Russia.)—This pamphlet gives lists of the members of the various Bolshevik committees which rule Russia. It indicates the nationality of each...

Harrison Martindale, Ph.D., F.C.S., and W. Wynn Westcott, M.B. Lond., D.P.H. (H. K. Lewis. 7a- 6c1. net.)—Testate that The Extra Pharmacopoeia has become indispensable to every...

a preface by Lord Burnham. (Hodder : nd Stoughton. 25s, net.)—Dr. Donald has written aiull and intemstingaccouut. illustrated with many portraits and other photographs, 'of the...

By H. E. Salter. With a Map and a Preface by Robert: Bridges. (Clarendon Press. 3s. 6d. net.)—The author of this interesting contribution to the history of Oxford quotes on the...

interesting but somewhat disconnected book. His object is to interest British readers in the development of China's natural resources.

Great War. By Comyns Berkeley and Victor Bonney.—This clever and amusing book is sold for the benefit of the Middlesex Hospital, but by a strange oversight neither the name of...

a quarterly edited by Professor H. L. Stewart, of Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia : Review Publishing Com- pany, 2 dollars a year). " What we have in mind," says the...

Star. (G. Allen and Unwin. 2s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Arnold Bennett explains in a preface that some remarks of his on the merit of Mr. David Low's cartoons for the-Bulletin caused Mr....