General Gouraud, - the High Commissioner, sent an ultimatum to the Emir Feisul, who accepted it. French troops on the march to Damascus were, however, attacked last Saturday....

T HE issue whether it will be possible to make peace with Russia and to save Poland, who in spite of her extravagances and misjudgments is one of the hinges of the whole peace...

their shifts and evasions were exhausted, decided last week to sign the Peace Treaty. Meanwhile the Greek Army had diSposed of the boastful Governor of Adrianople, Jafer Tayar...

that he was opposed to an Irish Republic because it would break up the Empire and would not be tolerated by the English people, pleaded for " Dominion Home Rule." He asserted...

of Ireland. Sir Edward Carson said that utter anarchy prevailed in the South and West, and he asked the Government how and when they proposed to deal seriously with the...

to call attention to the Belfast riots which he attributed to Protestant hatred of the Roman Catholic minority. He com- plained in particular of the destruction of a working...

Should our readers experience any difficulty in obtaining the SPECTATOR durivg the summer holidays from Newsagents or Railway Bookstalls, will they please communicate at once...

letters submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do his best to return contributions in case of rejection.

communications from one of its Irish correspondents which, though they did not of course excuse the murder, approached that kind of condonation which is contained in the...

railway fares would be raised on the morning of Friday next, August 6th, in accordance with the report of the Rates Advisory Committee. The increase in the so-called " workmen's...

distinguished )fficer by many of the newspapers which had given currency to the falsehoods. Surely acknowledgment of error, however unwitting, and reparation, even though it...

were repressed by Saturday. Large bodies of troops, with armoured care and maehine-guns, were employed to assist the police in keeping the rival factions apart, and were...

clear. Nor do we understand why two months ago be raised the price of " domestic " coal to avert an expected deficit in the working of the collieries while he now seem s to look...

Sunday at Bandon. Police Sergeant Mulhern had entered the Roman Catholic church to attend Mass, and was dipping his fingers in the holy water font when he was shot dead by two...

Federation on Monday that the Government had rejected its demand for a further increase of the miners' wages by 2s. a shift and for the reduction of the price of " domestic "...

the full horror of the circumstances in which Colonel Smyth was done to death at Cork. As we pointed out last week, lying reports about a speech which he was supposed to have...

the reconstruction epoch after the Napoleonic Wars, traced the relations of the collector and the citizen. He described how the citizen began in a taxed cradle and ended in a...

could not ignore the two principles of the Reformation. " One -was the supremacy of Holy Scripture ; the other the validity of the witness of Christian History. If this...

Temple Church last Sunday, dealt in plain language and in the broadest way with the question of reunion. In the course of his sermon he said :- " The Bishops at Lambeth were...

majority of Anglican laymen throughout the world, and also by the greater number of the Bishops and scholarly priests and ministers of the Church. No threats of schism mist...

Dr. Hensley Henson intend it to mean, that bodies of Christians with a great historic tradition like the Church of England should be disbanded, disallowed, or in any way...

The King on Friday week that a soldier had no right to sue the Crown on a petition of right, for pay promised to him but afterwards withheld. This is doubtless good law, but it...

' Shamrock IV.' and Resolute ' for the America Cup came to an end, when 'Resoluta ' rather easily won for the third time in the set of five completed races. By winning two races...

it should be noted that this Association of undertakers is presumably not .a Trade Union in the onlinary sense, but rather an association of small employers. It follows, no...

tyranny : " This means the depriving the public of the use of the public biers, and the forcing them to use the very expensive hearse with their thoroughbred black horses. No...

presented by America to Great Britain, was unveiled at West- minster on Wednesday by the Duke of Connaught. Mr. Root, whom Lord Bryce described as " the greatest Secretary of...

Apr. 15, 1920 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 841; Thursday week, 851 ; a year. ago, 94.

THE MESOPOTAMIAN IMBROGLIO. U NLESS we can find some better way of dealing with Mesopotamia than our present way, the land of the Two Rivers will be our ruin. That is the long...

peace settlement between Russia, the Border States, the Allies, and Poland have become rather dim when we write on Thursday, but we admit that the whole situation may have...

Il i NGLISIIMEN have been reading a good deal in their U newspapers about the movements of Archbishop Meninx, who was till lately Archbishop of Melbourne and head of the Roman...

J USTIN MoCARTHY is not the only historian of his own times, nor is his the only way of writing history. A hundred years , ago the scrap-book was no less a fashion than a...

T HINGS are moving so rapidly in Ireland that it seems hardly worth while to devote any great amount of space and attention to the official report of the Conference held on...

S YRIA and Palestine, to superficial view, are full of die. appointment. Nothing surprises common expectation more than the absence of forest on Lebanon. Where are the cedars,...

August Bank holiday recurs without bringing with it a vivid remembrance of six years ago, when that holiday coincided with the greatest political crisis in Europe ever known,...

[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.] ITALIAN TROOPS OF...

" SPECTATOR."] enclose a cutting from the Pioneer Mail for July 2nd giving a letter from the Raja of Mankapur. I think it is a great mistake it is not more known that loyal...

letter in the Spectator of July 244.1; is so horrible that I cannot refrain from these few comments. Mr. Anderson makes great claims for his teaching and his ideal which he...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Snt,—For some months, on behalf of the National Party, 1 have been endeavouring in Parliament to bring out the facts of the unbusinesslike...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR. — Your readers could afford to ignore the outburst of your correspondent Mr. Tom Anderson were he not actually voicing the point of...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") the English people ever realize the state of things at present existing in Ireland? I write from a small town —for obvious reasons I cannot...

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, — The main impression which I have derived from a recent visit to England after more than five continuous years in Ireland is that the...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sia,—The attitude of the Catholic clergy and people of Ireland towards murder is a source of perplexity and distress to mans who are not...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, — We have to thank you for your two admirable articles of July 17th pointing out why Mr. Montagu should be removed from the Cabinet....

[To THY EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — You will allow me a few words of comment upon thathio but steady stream of correspondence induced by a statement in my Evolution of...

1To THE EDITOR OF THE-" SPECTATOR"] Sza,—In confirmation of what Mr. Bassett so forcibly demon- strates, perhaps you will allow me to give a personaLrecollec- tion. I happened...

" SPECTATOR."] Sra,—In your issue of July 24th among: the. notes of the week there is a reference to the antagonistic attitude of the trade unions with regard to the employment...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Twenty years ago, when a convinced motorist (then the Me noire of his- friends) dared•. to state his belief that the motor would drive...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sig,—In the otherwise friendly notice of my Free Will and Destiny, the Spectator of July 24th makes a statement which is distinctly, and I...

ear and memory have failed him in his quotation of the wine-bibber's apology. I have never, to my knowledge, seen the lines in print, but as they reached me by rote ran like...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 believe the severest precisions of literary etiquette hold that an author should never take any notice (in the way of reply) of reviews,...

.[To THE Emma or sae ".Eirsomoa."] Sut,—The editing of a paper would be an impossible task if it were open 4- o correspondents to canvass the opinions of reviewers....

[To THE .EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sns,—I think it may interest you to learn that I have built a barn, SOft. by 15ft..by 12ft. high, in Pise-de Terre, with which I am in...

tTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SrE,—I was at Harrow last Speech Day. For -so long as I can remember (over-sixty years) the school prizes are then handed to the winners....

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your issue of July 24th I find the Hon. Secretary of the Plumage Group contributes an amusing perplexity of " per cents" and dates...

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sta,—Your readers may be interested to know something about the duties of an Under-Treasurer and Steward to the Society of Lincoln's Inn,...

(To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] Sts, — Re Mr. Robert Gray's letter in your issue of July 17th, we have in our employ a man named James Capps, who was on the S.S. ' Dacia,' a...

THE SINGING VAGABOND. A MAD fellow went wandering The fair roads of the world along, And ever as he went would sing A foolish, happy snatch of song- Ri tol de rol l A...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") DEAR SIR,—Our attention has been called to the following passage occurring in page 105 of the issue of the Spectator of the 24th instant :-...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—There are thousands of acres of bracken in our island doing nothing but mischief, and rapidly encroaching on and ruining pasture land....

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—I have read with interest in your last issue Miss Blanche Winder's reply to my letter which appeared in the Spectator Of the 17th...

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THE CRISIS OF THE NAVAL WAR.* LORD JELLICOE has written an instructive account of the anti-submarine campaign of 1917, when he was First Sea Lord, as a supplement to his...

writer's name 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...

Lvnic, HemmEnsarrrn.—The Beggar's Opera ... . 8.15-2.30 [The best thing in London.] LYCEUM. —My Old Dutch . . . . .. 7.45 - 2.30 [Albert Chevalier in an East End Milesiones,...

CARDINAL MBROIER'S story of his relations with the German Administration in Brussels is one of the-mostremarkable records thrown up by any war. Belgians during -their test of...

IT is a great pleasure to see 'Mr. Dooley at work again and to find that the tempest which has just passed over his head and our s has left us almost as ready to laugh, and he...

ONE of the many subsidiary results of the war. has been to arouse fresh interest in Egyptian. antiquities. Egypt has become known to tens of thousands of intelligent British...

THE iron hand of machinery long ago touched that most delicate of crafts, lace-making, and with extraordinary success. But to your true lace-lover not the most attractive of...

" INDUSTRIAL unrest is a psychological reaction to unfavourable environment ; just as diminishing output is a sign of lack of physical energy," says Professor Collis in his...

ANTON TCHEROV is a Russian writer whose works, excluding perhaps the plays, have generally seemed less strange, a little less upside down to English readers than those of many...

Knee EDWARD VII. and the Royal Navy are _the two central subjects of interest in the amusing volume of Sir Seymour Fortescue's recollections. Both have a special appeal and...

of 'William Sydney - Porter (known to -the .reading public An " 0: Henry ") was quite worth 'sweeping. Admirers of his maturemorkwill further find-the-critical and bieiraphioal...

A COLLECTED EDITION OF MR. GORDON BOTTOMLEY'S PLAYS.* THERE are a great- many poems which do not yield. up their savour without repeated re-readings. at longish intervals. Of...

Allen and Unwin. 7s. 6d. net.)—The story of a country girl who becomes a Post Office Civil Servant and does not give satisfaction. The rich uncle who returns from Australia is...

OPEN THE DOOR ! * No one will be surprised. to • learn that Mks. Carswell's novel secured the £250 • prize in the - competition initiated by Mr. Melrose. Her work has many...

the New Era, contains a particularly interesting little article on Psycho-Analysis, in which, for the enlightenment of the beginner, a very clear outline is given of the...

(Murray. 5s. net.)— Musical and conservative.—In the Shadows. By David Gray. (Melrose. Is. net.)—Promising sonnets by a young poet who died of consumption.

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent recie.m] Miss Julia Stimson was what in the American Army is called " Chief Nurse," and what we should call "...

Technical College will welcome the excellent life of its first Principal, which has been compiled by his wife and daughter. Thompson accepted that post in 1885 and occupied it...

plants grown in England ; and it is the intention of the author that it should serve as an introduction to the larger authoritative works on the subject, such as Elwes and...

(S.P.C.K. 15s. net.)—The " White Book " of Worcester con- tains the correspondence of the cathedral monastery from 1301 to 1446. It has never been printed as a whole, but the...

Pariah, John Lane, 6s. 6d.) there are an extraordinarily large number of really delightful stories ; but the book on the whole suffers, as do most books of good stories, in...

News. 9d.)—Mr. Gully's little pamphlet gives a lucid aeommt of the effect of the " proposed new rules and regulations"' for Income Tax for 1920-21 "as forecast in the 1920...