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General in the hands of these political brigands, but what on earth are the Law Officers of the Crown doing in allowing sub- ordinate officers at Fermoy to communicate with the...

Coalition Ministry last Friday week, despite the uncertain attitude of the Majority Socialists. He lost his Defence Minister, Herr Gessler, the same day, for Herr Gessler...

repress the defiant Turkish Nationalists, opened its campaign on Wednesday week. Two columns, advancing to the east and to the north of Smyrna, caught Mustapha Kemal's forces in...

Bonar Law stated in the House on Wednesday that the French Government at the recent Boulogne Conference proposed that the Allies should be represented by Ambassadors at Berlin...

the German Commission on the reparation to be made to France. As it is the first tentative German offer of a fixed sum, we may note that the German Commission estimates the...

T situation in Ireland grows worse daily. The violent riots provoked by Sinn Fein in Londonderry came to an end last Saturday, after seventeen persons had been killed and about...

week, however, was the kidnapping of Brigadier-General Lucas and his staff officers, Colonel Danford and Colonel Tyrrell. These officers, of the Clonmel military area, ignoring...

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

the House of Commons on Wednesday by 217 votes to 91. The miners Members denounced it hotly on the ground that the establish- ment of area boards for fixing wages within each...

balance-sheet for a " normal year "—that is, a year in which there will be no superfluous departments like the Ministry of Shipping, no wasteful subsidies or unemployment...

was wrong to create a new department like the Ministry of Transport and fill it with men of business at salaries far higher than those of experienced civil servants at the head...

of cutting down expenditure. One of the best and most suitable ways of reducing expenditure is to reduce the vast number of Government employees. It is impossible to believe...

the Enabling Act, met for the first time at Westminster on Wednesday. It consisted of 38 bishops, 251 clergy and 357 lay members, including 40 women. A congratulatory message...

was well received by the Chamber last Thursday week when he expounded a programme of radical reform at home and of moderation abroad. In regard to Albania, where the natives...

week defended the new Ministry of Transport against the critics who complained that it was unnecessary and extravagant. He had accidentally discovered and cancelled an agreement...

House of Lords last Friday week, inreply to Lord Islington, who regretted the delay in setting up an Arab Government and withdrawing the Indian troops. Lord Curzon said that the...

how the rights of the " immense non-Jewish majority " in Palestine were to be safeguarded if the country was to be a " national home " for the Jews. Lord Lamington joined with...

of Civil Aviation), on the other hand, in their general remarks, emphasize the urgency of th e need for a subsidy. In spite of anything that can be done, the aircraft...

in sharp contrast to those of Parliament. In Parliament a great many wise things are said and innumerable stupid ones are done. In Labour Party Congresses the exact opposite is...

commercial enterprise is bound to steady the tone of organized Labour immensely. Again, papers like the Herald are extremely useful for reference purposes. One can always find...

report to the Air Ministry. It recommends that direct assistance be given to civil flying on " approved routes" up to a maximum of £250,000. Payment is to be made on the return...

of most experience will agree, one of the most important of the functions which civil flying will fulfil. The all- round best routes—routes which are free from fog and so forth—...

in the Labour Party. Congress when the question of the representation of British Labour at the Third International was debated. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald explained the view of the...

the people who were running the Third International had declared that each country must wade through blood to accomplish the revolution. He had put the point to Lenin : " Are we...

Nelson and Colnein the by-election occasioned by the resignation of the old Labour.member, Captain A. Smith. It is noteworthy, :however, that he received.less than half the...

Houses visited the National Gallery by invitation of the directors in order to see the four new rooms, containing Dutch and Spanish pictures, which have just been reopened to...

5 per cent. War Lean was on Wednesday, 84f ; Thursday week, 84i; a year ago, 93i,

" THE ERROR OF THEIR WAYS." "THE Sikh Government have asked for war, and by God they shall have it." That was Lord Dalhousie's answer to the insults offered to the Indian...

" Vous avez pour principe d'achninistration, que l'argent n'eet rien, tandie qu'au contraire, dan,8 lee circonetancee o& nowt FOMMC8, l'argent eat tout."*—(ntrotEort to the...

tell us that, though we may criticize Lord French, it is positively wicked to try and make Mr. Lloyd George and the Cabinet responsible for what is going on in Ireland. They...

I T must have come as a shock to Englishmen, on opening their newspapers on Tuesday, to find a deeply-moving appeal from the Dean of Westminster on behalf of the Abbey. To be...

T HE Secretary of State rose with a yawn from his study table, leaving on it the proof of a half-corrected despatch. He took down from a shelf a volume of a history of his own...

[COMMUNICATED.] T HE life of Archbishop Tillotson covers one of those great turning-points in our national history when power was Passing from a feudal aristocracy to the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Having written so frequently concerning the necessity for reducing Government expenditure, you will not, I think, suspect me of any...

[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.; SOME ASPECTS OF ZIONISM....

" SPECTATOR."J SIR,—If the hack-word " amazing " had really been put out at grass, as your poet suggests, I should have had to hale it back to characterize your attitude on the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " BPECTATOR."1 Srs,—Public opinion on General Dyer's action at Amritsar has been greatly prejudiced by the difficulty that we here have of realizing...

ITO THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR.") Sea,—May I be permitted to point out to your correspondent, Sir James Wilson, that he mixes up " Martial Law " with "Duties in Aid of the...

reminds me of a meeting I once attended in South Africa, where Irish propagandists told a horrible tale of .British rule in Ireland. The Boers were im- pressed, but before they...

• [To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") read with interest_ a few weeks ago Dr. Macphail's letter on the French-Canadians of Quebec, and the ensuing correspondence, and am...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sia,—Professor Henry quotes one man, Lord Campbell (not a very good authority), to the effect that in 1833 the English hated the Irish. It...

[To THE Boma or THE "SPECTATOR.") fins,—For a considerable time some of us—I do not refer to the Council of the Life and Liberty Movement, whose views on the subject I have no...

[To TIla EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."3 Sia,—Would you allow me to try and clear the issue raised by the defeat of the Bishops on the Divorce Bill and to attempt to furnish an...

[To THE EDITOR OF VIE "SPECTATOR."1 Sia,—Without entering into theological or ecclesiastical ques- tions, there is one point on which all professing Christians are probably...

[To TEE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR."3 Srn,—I notice an article—or, rather, a letter—which appeared in your paper on June 19th last referring to the action of this Union with...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Will you kindly allow me a little space in your interesting columns to reply to a letter on the above subject in your issue of June...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sm.,—Might I again venture to appeal urgently to your readers for , assistance with regard to the publication of the third Totems (1918-19)...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, Why does the public continually grumble at the large amount of National Expenditure P It can be divided under three heads :—(1) the...

have read with interest not unmingled with amusement the irrefutable arguments by which certain of your corre- spondents have proved that "Egret Farms " do not and cannot exist...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Referring to the letter under this title in a recent issue, it may interest your readers to know that a similar method of teaching was...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, I have read the correspondence in your recent issues on this subject with great interest. With regard to the dropped plumes, I cannot...

Basil Wilberforce's statement about the cuckoo's eggs in Mr. Hart's museum at Christchurch is quite correct. Mr. Hart has often shown me the "clutches " men- tioned, and the...

on the above in your issue of June 5th recalls to my memory that when serving in H.M.S. ` Zebra' off the coast of Angola in '62 or '63, I witnessed an attack of a thresher and....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, I have read with great interest in your issue of May 15th the article on the buzzard, in which reference is made to our laws for bird...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The experiences of the keeper mentioned by Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones in his letter published in your issue of June 19th are...

Frank T. Millen, who had apparently some intimacy with 'whales, writes in his book, Creatures of the Sea : " I have seen the thresher shark attacking the whale (Mysti- cetus) at...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—All lovers of nature must have read the correspondence in your columns relative to the Plumage Bill with interest; but if there be...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—May I be permitted to add to your answer to the inquiry in your last number about the power of the cuckoo to alter the coloration of...

MADAME SAND: A BIOGRAPHICAL COMEDY.* Do not hitch your wagon to a star if that vehicle has only three wheels., Mr. Philip Moeller has certainly a facility for dialogue. He can...

LORD COURTNEY.t LORD COURTNEY once said of himself that he was " incurably addicted to the Protestant right of private judgment." This very accurate statement is illustrated at...

WATCHERS OF THE COAST. Mho Welsh fishers believe that every reef and shoal is guarded by the souls of the last crew drowned thereon, who warn their com- rades of the danger...

name 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 made...

Under this heading I shall each week remind readers of the name and nature of four or five plays which are worth seeing. Carraamer. — Lord Richard in the Pantry [A sound...

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to us by the advent of this massive tome to congratulate Sir George Grierson, the • Linguistic Survey of India. Vol. VIII.. part I.: Indo-Aryan Family, North- Western Group....

Library " are boys, though many of them are of the grey-haired variety. The new volume on cricket has been written for the learning of the young, and the editor has proved to be...

THE picturesque little town of Burford in Oxfordshire with its great church has attracted a good many writers and artists, and not least William Morris, and its history has been...

ability barking furiously not so much up the wrong tree as up a medium sized bush we are apt to forget his possibly important discovery of the bush in the vehemence of our...

To the historical student who pursues his subject far there soon comes a strong sense of the similarity of all epochs. It is so fatally easy to put a finger through those subtle...

directly resulting from the recent. world-wide cataclysm is already prodigious, and the flood still rises. Many of them have but an ephemeral interest, while many others are...

AT Eton there is an ancient and honourable tradition of verse- writing. At Eton as nowhere else verse has formed the centre of the Classical man's training, and there the...

MR. NICHOLS' " AITRELIA." t Mn. ROBERT Nicaoas' virtues are many. Oftener than his reader has a right to expect—for every poet has a fixed allow- ance of failures per...

9d. net.)—A very striking story of a mystery connected with the succession to a peerage. Unlike most plots of this kind, the character-drawing in the book is as interesting as...

THE FOOLISH LOVERS.* Mn. ST. Joel ERVECE has chosen an old theme—the story of the young man from the country who comes to London, in spite of the advice of his family, to make...

Philip Allan & Co. 3s. 6d. net.— The Pilgrimage of a Thousand Years- By Owen F. Grazebook. (Cornish Bros. 4s. 6d. net.)—A rather prosaic but none the less. readable and...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent revive. THE JULY MoarrnrAas.—The Nineteenth Century opens with a plain-spoken article on " An Oranicompetent...

has taken over a privately owned periodical dealing with its special subject. The Library, founded and con- ducted for thirty years by Sir J. Y. W. MacAlister, will hence- forth...

York : Oxford University Press ; and H. Milford.)—This volume of the " Preliminary Economic Studies of the War " issued by the_ Carnegie Endowment for International Peace deals...

Council, has issued the Draft Scheme of the Local Education Authority under the new Education Act. This elaborate work, well written and well indexed, outlines the history of...

the Carnegie Institution two of the new editions of classics of international law, edited by Mr. J. B. Scott, to which the Institution has devoted special attention for some...

Review for June have reprinted Mr. McKenna's important address on " The Taxable Capacity of the Nation," which he put at not more than £1,000,000,000 a year, though the Govern-...

is a noteworthy sign of the times. We are glad to record the appearance of a new periodical, Theology, a " monthly journal of historic Christianity," edited by E. G. Selwyn...

Talbot House. 3s. 6d. net.)—This little book, written by ex-service men, is a practical guide to the battlefields in the Salient and to the sadly numerous cemeteries, with maps...

Maxwell. (A. & C. Black. 25s. net.)—Both author and artist served as lieutenants in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during the war. Mr. Gordon Maxwell describes in brief...

more than usual interest in its ninety-third issue as it reveals the progress made towards the restoration of normal diplomatic relations and shows how the work of the Foreign...