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T HIS has been a week of great events. In the first place, the coal strike has come to an end, and come to an end in a fashion far happier than we had ventured to hope for. The...

the terrible blow that has been dealt at the nation's credit and the breakingof the foreign habit of buying coal and other products here. Trade is a curiously tough thing, and...

must not be put under a Dublin Parliament, but that its absolute equality and independence must be recognized. Those were the terms made by the North when they reluctantly...

appeared to make it a condition that there must be no partition in Ireland. Partition is apparently to be reserved for the United Kingdom only! This suggestion that Sinn Fein...

the Prime Minister had given Mr. De Valera, the Irish Sinn Fein leader, an unconditional invitation to come to London and discuss the possibilities of peace. That, considering...

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be got over. If it is got over, then the hopes of a real settlement will have a real foundation. If the difficulty is not got over, the English people must not let themselves be...

a delegation from the State of Virginia, who have come here to present statues of George Washington to St. Paul's Cathedral and to Sulgrave Manor, to luncheon on Tuesday. Mr....

vote of sympathy with the miners and elected Mr. Hodges as a member of the party executive, from which it significantly excluded Mr. Robert Williams, the avowed Communist, whom...

by Dr. Murray Butler. He began , with delightful humour, but passed to an urgent plea for "consultation," and again "consultation," in Anglo-American relationships. An ounce of...

on Wednesday, June 22nd, took the form, two days later, of a mine explosion on the railway north of Dundalk, by which a troop-train, carrying some of the King's escort, was...

calm the troubled waters in Italy. He appealed to the country in the spring, hoping that the moderate parties woula be strengthened so that he might have a stable majority in...

able and eminent statesmen of the Empire who are now discussing the matter at the Imperial Conference if we ask them to remember that to whittle away the Treaty to nothing is...

and most important of all, though the general public here only see it through a glass darkly. It is the discussion which is proceeding in the Imperial Conference with regard to...

the Allies had invited Greece to accept their mediation in the war with the Turkish Nationalists. If Greece accepted, the Allies would state the terms on which they were...

promising experiment. If it were worked in the right spirit, it would restore the industry, inasmuch as every man would have a direct interest in increasing the output and the...

House of Commons on Tuesday afternoon. The miner's mini- mum wages are to be 20 per cent, more than the pre-war standard or minimum wages. In each district the new standard...

June 23rd, made an elaborate defence of his appointment of Dr. Addison as Minister without Portfolio. Ministers, he said, worked far harder than they did in the old days, and it...

23rd, pointed the moral of the miners' strike. Such disputes .affected and impoverished everybody. But the very suffering caused by these strikes made them a valuable political...

ballot last week on the employers' proposals to reduce wages. Only a third of the men voted ; 257,532 were against the offer, and 125,014 in favour of it. The union leaders,...

informed that the Government would renew the offer of 00,000,000 to the industry. They then completed their agree- ment, and the miners' leaders issued an appeal to their...

amicably on Friday, June 24th. It was agreed that wages should be reduced at once by 3s. 10d. in the pound, and after six months by a further sevenpence in the pound. The...

hold the conference of other unions which they had summoned for Saturday, the truth being that the unions declined to attend. Realizing that they could not continue the strike...

death on Wednesday of Lady Randolph Churchill, the wife of one promin- ent statesman and the mother of another. There is universal public sympathy with Mr. Winston Churchill,...

June 23, i921; 9 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 884; Thursday week, h71; a year ago, SQ.

T HERE will be such widespread and profound relief at the cessation of the miners' strike that no one will be disposed to examine the terms of settlement with an unduly critical...

THE INVITATION TO MR. DE VALERA. T is our duty, as it is the duty of the whole of the British people, to throw no obstacle whatever in the way of the attempt which is being...

M RS. WEBSTER, whose book on the World Revolu- tion we review elsewhere, has added to the debt of gratitude already due to her. Her book on the French • Revolution was not only...

"Greatly his opera strains intend, But in music you know how fashions end."—Browning. F ASHIONS change, but there is one fashion that never changes—the fashion of railing...

Pau is one of the most beautiful and interesting of all those which penetrate into the Pyrenees. Commencing at the mag- nificent mountain amphitheatre of Gavarnie and ter-...

S TATE apartments have a fascination for the public. When we read that the State apartments at a Royal palace are open again to the inspection of holiday- makers we know that we...

AN ECONOMIC DILEMMA.—I. WAGES AND THE COST OF LIVING. (To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The further reduction in the Bank Rate to 6 per cent., which I anticipated last...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read,und therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] THE IRISH PARLIAMENTS. (To me...

(To THE EDITOR Or TEl " SPECTATOR."1 Sia,—The news of the death of the late Dean of Leighlin, the Very Rev. John Finlay, who is officially reported to have been murdered by...

THE " SPECTATOR.") Sza,—Your review of Life and Letters of Toru Dutt is of great interest, but perhaps I c-an clear what you say "is a dis- appointing book" as it does not...

(To nu Eorroa or nts '• Spec-rAros.".1 Silt,—Nolling could be more timely than your article, "Plain Words on the Industrial Crisis." You say—and I believe that this lies at the...

SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In the Spectator for Saturday, June 18th, an article on Centres for Medical Treatment suggests that the Orthopaedic Clinics opened by the Pensions Committees...

Sza,—I wonder if there are many people who take, like myself, a great pleasure in the verses of Rudyard Kipling, and who ) feel anxious because they may be missing his later...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—In a review of my book The Direction of War, which was published in your issue of June 18th, it is stated that "it is difficult to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "J Sie,—The time has come to consider the claims of women from the Overseas Dominions to share in the life and work of the Universities at...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTAYOR.") • Sue,—We wonder whether we mayhring to'youir mitice alactate to be given by kind' permission of Lady Lyttelton at the Royal Hospital,...

. /To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sao,—Yon published a very charming paragraph last week about the Prince of Wales spending his birthday amongst a thousand of the humblest...

Sua,—I have just read Mr. Eyres's letter in your issue for June 25th. -lie appears to be a glutton for facts and figures; he must have wonderful faith in them. I hope he will...

Sre,—At a joint conference of the above committees of the National Children Adoption Association, of 19 Sloane Street, NATIONAL CHILDREN ADOPTION ASSOCIATION. [To THE EDITOR OP...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."3 SIR,—In connexion with the interesting article "Poetical Salads," in your issue of June 25th, I should like to remark how strange it is no...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sts,—Countess Evelyn Martinengo Cesaresco says that she has good grounds for believing that vast numbers of our summer visitants are killed...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, —Since, especially at this time of year, the Spectator cir- culates freely among the Swedish and Dutch nobility, I venture to express a...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 Snt,—In your issue of June 25th there is a letter addressed "Surrey Hills" and signed "C. C. Hope," in which the writer says that on June...

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...

I have seen Oxford's name in the letters on the absence of the swallows. Here at St. Edward's two of our large roofs are the favourite sunning-places of a largo number of...

REQUIEM. A STRANGER told me you were dead, And I, unmoved, replied, Asking in even tones, the place And hour you died. But as, half reverently, he told The things I asked of...

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 mode of...

Lyme, HAMMERSMITH.—The Beggar's Opera •• 8.30-2.30 [The first and best musical comedy.] COMEDY.—A Family Man •• ••■ 8.20-2.30 [Mr. Galsworthy'a moderately effective...

BEN JONSON'S "BARTHOLOMEW FAIR "—THE PHOENIX SOCIETY. WHEN we have said that Bartholomew Fair is not quite so dull to witness as it is to read, we have almost said all that is...

WORLD REVOLUTION.* WE have written elsewhere on the question of secret societies and Mrs. Webster's handling of this perplexed and perplexing matter in her new book. Here we...

A DETAILED modern account of Marlborough's campaigns in Flanders and Germany during the War of the Spanish Succession has long been needed. We are glad to find that it has been...

To deal with the facts first, Back to Methuselah is a collection of five one-act plays, each with a thread connecting it loosely to the next. In the last words of the preface...

the Russian Embassy in London after the death of Count Benckendorf in January, 1917, and retained that post until September, 1919, has written a most instructive account of the...

THE Head-master of Eton, in a brilliant little book, discusses the politics of the important and difficult period of twenty years following Waterloo. Historical analogies need...

Intrusion. By Beatrice Kean Seymour. (Chapman and Hall. 8s. 6d. net.)—Mrs. Seymour has obtained a fuller mastery of her material since writing Inpisible Tides, and the plan of...

are excellent. Their only fault is their brevity, and that is a fault of which few travellers can be accused. He made a hurried trip round the world last year, staying seven...

is an Army Chaplain who goes to the Front with the highest ideals and intentions. He perceives that, owing to hie cloth, his companions entirely hide their real wishes and...

Unwin. Os. net.)—An acute psychological study of the kind which leaves the student with a sense that he has been looking on at a painful operation performed without the aid of...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] TRE JULY MAGAZINES.—The Nineteenth Century gives pro- minence to an article by Sir Charles Macara on...

net.)—The author of The Great Illusion now cries "I told you so!" He maintains that the outcome of the war has justified his original contention that war, from an economic...

and C. Black. 10s. 6d. net.)—This is the first volume of a series of histories of English industries, which promises to be highly interesting and useful. Mr. Lipson, the general...

H. F. Westlake. (Philip Allan. 5s. net.)--The great merit of Mr. Westlake's writings about the Abbey, of which he is the Custodian, lies in the fact that he works from the Abbey...

3s.)—The International Labour Office, at the request of the Hungarian Government, sent a mission, composed of three members, to inquire whether "the right of association for all...

Kirkaldy, of St. Andrews, told to.Clyde Foster. (T. Fisher Unwin. 12s. 6d. net.)—Golfers will find this an entertaining book. The well. known St. Andrews professional tells...

Ediciones de Don Quijote. Por Romero Seris. (Urbana : University of Illinois. 1 dollar 50 cents.)—Dr. Seris has com- piled, in Spanish, an elaborate descriptive catalogue of the...

Ellis's opinions on marriage, love, and eugenics, her post- humous volume, The New Horizon in Love and Life (A. and C. Black, 10s. 6d.), is an interesting book, the second part...

Valentine relating the history of The Dundee Social Union and Grey Lodge Settlement, which deserves the attention of readers in those towns where no such admirable institution...

and G. Milligan. Part IV. (Hodder and Stoughton. 10s. 6d. net.)—Professor Milligan is continuing single-handed the invalu- able work that he and the late Professor J. H. Moulton...