T HE laying waste of Ireland has continued without a check during the week. The official Free State reports speak of the successful scattering and final rounding up of the Irre-...

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

felicity of phrase, appears owing to its pessimism to be in contradiction to the ferocious " optimism" of the no prisoners and cemetery passage. " ` What matter if for Ireland...

who was undoubtedly the idol of his supporters. He was, more- over, a man well suited to become a legendary figure. He was brave, and when he was conducting the campaign against...

since Mr. Barton has joined the Republicans and another Minister has resigned, there is only one signatory left who can be held to be personally committed to the Treaty. Mr....

girlies, published here in Tuesday's papers, reads strangely and uncannily in view of the murder of Mr. Collins. It adds a poignant touch to Mr. Shaw's lament over the futility...

and Bandon. He was engaged in a tour of inspection with his staff and was driving in a motor-car. The Irregulars had pre- pared an ambush for him near the village of Crookstown....

Times of last Saturday is important, sinr-e it-expresses so clearly the American attitude toward the Balf our Note and in general helps to clear the, opaque atmosphere...

makes one wonder whether. after all Cromwell, William . and Grattan's Parliament and the Irish Government in putting dawn the rebellion of '98 had not a good- deal more ground...

new cruiser 'Raleigh,' obtained from some of the 546 officers and men who arrived at Liverpool last Saturday. When the ship struck the- rocks off the coast of Labrador there-...

convey a solemn warning to those who wanted to wreck the reforms and secondly to-res.ssurer En_lisktmen who wrongly thought that the British element in the Indian Civil...

Indians, who protested against Mr. Lloyd George's speech in the House of Commons on August 2nd. It will be remembered that 'Kr. Lloyd George then said that the British connexion...

fact, all Europe, has constantly clung to the idea that America would cancel her debts, and has proceeded on that assumption. "Conceivably," he continues, "the response in this...

the Red Cross Society, has written a preface to that body's second annual report which is of very: deepinterest and- signifi- cance. Last year Sir Napier Burnett put before the,...

Shaw's attitude, we shall only note that his vigorous picture of the condition of Ireland inclines one to wonder whether, after all, the accepted and conventional view of the...

He said that France "coveted no extension of country and demanded no hegemony." She simply wanted the execution of the Treaties and the payment of the money due. She could not...

President Harding to send .a message to Congress. He 'suggests a; Commission of Inquiry and adds that a State corporation might be established f arbuying and distributing-...

Loch Masse, in Ross-shire. No fewer than eight persons, members of a fishing party, died as the result of eating potted meat. Other members of the party who did not eat the...

South America, and he seemed always to wear about him the air of those vast quiet spaces which he loved. This was always very apparent when on rare occasions one found him in a...

allowed In the parks. Cricket was, as ever in England, the king game. The Times tells us that throe distinct kinds of matches were to be detected—those of no flannels or pads,...

progressive paralysis, with diffioulty in.speaking and swallowing, all without any rise of temperature—correspond exactly, says Dr. Ledingham, to the symptoms of botulism as It...

champion, retained his title and also contributed daily bulletins of how he was doing it to the Times. The coldly scientific nature of his and of the other masters' play aroused...

recreation as cricket, with its charm, its grace, the beauty of the great green lawns it is played on, and the almost mystic fascination of its mighty tradition? August is the...

as Lady Macbeth in Manchester in 1873. In 1893 Sir Henry Irving engaged her and she was recognized as one of our greatest actresses. She had an astonishing success on the...

85. Her life was one of exceptional romance. She was born in the United States, but from her early girlhood she spent most of her time in Europe. Her training for the operatic...

essential part they play in our national life. And yet the profound if well- intentioned folly of those who would deny them to 90 per cent. of our population by forbidding their...

many respects a unique figure. Asa, naturalist he was unsurpassed in his own field. His abnormal memory for the details of Nature and his unusually accurate power of observation...

July 13, 1922; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 100i; Thursday week, 100*; a year ago, 88.

T ' problem of Prohibition in America seems, super- ficially, to be no business of ours—something which had much better not be discussed in an English newspaper. Yet, as a...

MR. COLLINS'S DEATH AND THE STATE OF IRELAND. T HE killing of Mr. Michael Collins by the Irregulars in an am bush at Bandon is an event which cannot but have an evil effect...

T HERE is no harm in saying that M..Poincare's speech at is was severe, because he evidently meant it to be severe. It had an undertone which was ironic, rather fierce, and...

T uft' performances in gliding, or perhaps one should rather say in soaring, which have just been accom- plished in Germany would have seemed quite incredible a few years ago. A...

T N the articles on "Household Prestige," which appeared in the Spectator last January, it was pointed out that a return to the old conditions of domestic service is extremely...

I T would be difficult to overrate the good work which the Czecho-Slovaks have done since the Armistice. -If one glances at the map, their position seems impossible. It is said...

called The Lone Trail, published by Whom-you-will, price 7s. 6d. net. I am not reviewing it, nor can I have that book in mind, because I have never heard of it. I am reviewing...

SPECULA.11Vh ACTIVITIES. MINING SHARES BETTER—WHY INVESTMENT STOCKS ARE QUIETER—EFFECT OF FLOATING DEBT REDUCTION—DEPRECIATED CURRENCIES—THE FALL IN THE MARK—RUMANIAN DEBT CON-...

THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sta,—Mr. Ernest Brown's attack on the British Roman Catholic priesthood in Britain should not be allowed to pass unchallenged. As to the Irish priests in...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the apace.] IRISH ROMAN CATHOLICS AND...

or I should like to begin by expatiating at length on the Spectator's broad-minded fairness to all sides, and particularly on its attitude to America, where I spend half my time...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The excellent and judicial article in your last issue upon the late Lord Northcliffe concludes with the following pregnant words :—...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Mr. Barnes-Austin does not mention the crowning in- justice with which landlords are threatened. In 1920 an Act was passed permitting...

(To THE FanTon OF THE "SPECTATOR.") STM, — There seems to be a resemblance between the Military Censorship in Dublin and the one from whose activities we ourselves suffered...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—We 'shall be glad if you will allow us to announce through your columns a most important acquisition on the part . of the National...

OF THE UNITED STATES." [To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In your issue of July 29th you ask for the author of the words "The common law of England is part of the law...

[To MB EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—The accounts in the daily Press of the horrible motor- coach accident at Brookland on Saturday night raise once more the vexed question...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPEGTATOR."] Ssa,—In your article on the breakdown of the Conference you say that the policy favoured by you "is based on the sound principle that we...

SPECTATOR."3 Sre,—The Report of the Universities' Commission has now been before the public for some months. It has been the object of much appreciation and some mild criticism...

[To sus Eprron OP TEE "SPECTATOR."1 Sre,—With what assurance does the Premier, speaking of the late War at a luncheon given in his honour, ask the represen- tatives of the Free...

[To ma EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, — Two or three years ago our servants' quarters became infested with bugs, which the application of various remedies failed to...

[To THE EDITOR Of THE "SPECTATOR."] Sm,—In his notice of Mies Frances Pitt's Woodland Creatures in the Spectator of August 5th your reviewer draws special attention to the...

[To rim EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.", BIR,—I have seen lately in more than one paper, as in your issue of August 19th, a letter reciting the story of the clean- ness of hands of...

[To ma EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Srn, — The Rev. Mr. Harlow's suggestion that, since family worship is a thing of the past, a short time each morning should be devoted to a...

[To THE Eamon or TEE " SPECTATOR.") Sra,—Your article on "Modern Sermons" is interesting, but I do not agree that sermons are generally unpopular and con- gregations...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SLE,—Will you allow us to make a very urgent appeal for fundj to send working girls and women away for a short holidayf Many of those who...

BLUE- TILES. AMONG the hardware merchant's window slum With brackets made of brass, knockers ornate, Bronze-name plates and a handle for a gate, "Acacia Villa," and, of...

[To ISE EDITOR Or THE BrOGTATOR."3 Sia,—The rustic's reply in youi• story of Compton. Dando, upholding his native place in comparison with the heavenly city, reminds me of a...

" PHI-PHI " AT THE LONDON PAVILION. I DARESAY a good many of the patrons of Phi-Phi were attracted by the postered words "Scenery and costumes designed by M. Edmund Muse." The...

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

WYNDHAM'S.—.Dear Brutus . . . . . [Gerald Da Rainier in Sir Tames Barrie's play on the theme of a second chance in life Slight, well acted and agreeable.] GARRicK.—The Man in...

and Wilson are in place again.] BRITISH MUSEUM (EDWARD VII. GALLERY). [Recent acquisitions in prints and drawings are always on view—a delight, ful standby for the off-season.]...

letters submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do his best to return contributions in case Of ?ejection. Poems should be addressed • to the...

8.30-2.45 Sunday 7.45 [A film version of IC Vincente Blasco Ibafiez's highly- coloured novel of the War and South America. Notice later.]

FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS.* Dn. Banzi must be considered as one of the foremost pioneers in Psychoanalysis, for it was he who, as long as fourteen years ago,...

WE have often called attention to the admirable work that is being done by American historians of the new school. Professor Baldwin's researches into the history of the King's...

fading dreams by day ; Chimborazo, Cotopaxi, They had stolen my heart away I" W. J. TURNER. PROBABLY the ordinary reader, when he sits down to a fat book of travels,...

rare in religious publications ; it strikes a religious note. As a rule, the literature of religion is funda- mentally irreligious ; the subject has a singular power of calling...

established than the process of decay sets in. Immediately the chain-mail of Huxley's oratory was removed from the body of the theory of evolution, the critical barbs of time...

A YEAR ago the late Lord Bryce delivered a series of eight lectures to the American Institute of Politics on International Relations, which have now been published (Macmillan,...

of a Rochefoucauld or a Halifax. It is not a shrewd and desiccated intellectuality that they display, but rather a profound com- prehension of the human heart. Of course, there...

Ma. Dawn N. MACKAY has described in a singularly interesting book, Clan Warfare in the Scottish Highlands (Paisley : Alexander Gardner, 7s. 6d. net), a dozen of the numerous...

reader is not likely to be much inspired by an Anglo- Saxon attempt at codification, there are things which will move him as they have moved the present writer. Some of the...

A METRICAL FEAT4 IT has been said that it is very convenient to have won a Victoria Cross. After that. you need no longer scruple to acknow- ledge your fear of a bathe in a...

Reynolds. (John Lane. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mrs. Reynolds's new novel opens with an excellent description of the girlhood of Mara, the plain heroine. Her revolt at the dull conditions...

of an event to the jaded reviewer, for it is compact of the freshness and charm of youth. Yet a delightful sense of humour in its author never allows this youthful gusto to...

filAURICE GUEST.* THERE is no severer handicap to a good book than a prefatory puff by a writer of note : and even Mr. Hugh Walpole's admirably lucid, appreciative, and...

: De Generations et Corruptions. (Clarendon Press. 10s. net.)—Mr. J. L. Stocks has translated and annotated "On the Heavenly Bodies" and Professor Joachim " On Coming-to-be and...

Chadwick. (Cambridge University Press. 10s. 6d. net.)—Miss Chadwick has made an interesting book by selecting and arranging from the three versions of Piers Plowman the details...

Stoughton. 6s. net.)—Mr. Paterson, in this readable book reviews the past history of the Arlie. He shows how violent methods, such as Brooke Herford bravely denounced at...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Camping. By J. Scott Moore. (George Newnes. 9d.)— Mr. Scott Moore's little book is thoroughly...

Press. 2s. net.)—Professor Morison of Harvard is the first occupant of the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth chair of American History at Oxford. His inaugural lecture, delivered on June...

International Law ( H. Frowde and Hodder and Stou g hton, 16s. net ) contains a number of valuable papers. Lord Finlay contributes a memoir of the late Sir H. Erie Richards,...

( Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons. 7s. 6d. net. ) —Mr. Clarke was an official of the old Local Government Board, and is now a lecturer on local g overnment at Liverpool. His book...