by saying that Mr. Do Valera, in refusing much more than had ever been demanded by his predecessors, was " playing with phrases." As for " geographical propinquity," he...

26th, said that the Government were " profoundly disappointed " with Mr. De Valera's letter. Mr. Do Valera had written of the conditions of a meeting as though no meeting had...

that on the same principle Holland and Denmark could be made subservient to Germany, Belgium to Germany or to France, Portugal to Spain. He then proceeded logically to the...

and Great Britain—Ireland's best customer—should be kept as free as possible. The States of the American Union enjoyed no such rights. The Government considered that these facts...

onlookers, particularly onlookers across the seas. But like other people they make mistakes, and they certainly are making a mistake now if they think that Americans, for...

House on August 24th, and was described, with the customary affectation, as the " official translation," though nobody, we suppose, pretends that the authors of the letter...

T HERE is a halt in the Irish negotiations. It was expected that by Thursday, when we write, a further com- munication would have been received from Dublin. But now there are...

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

at the instance of .Marshal von Hindenburg, was murdered by two youths in the Black Forest on Frislay,'August 26th. A 'fellow-deputy with whom he was walking was shot at and...

mined resistance in the Sakaria valley, where Mustapha Kemal's forces were strongly entrenched. Probably the Greeks found it difficult to transport their food and munitions to...

was formally transferred . to Austria last Saturday in accordance with the Treaty of the .Trianon. 'A few Magyar officers, commanding a force of irregulars, sought at the last...

poorer quarters of Belfast, where Orangemen and Sinn Feiners live side by side. It is probable' that Sinn •Fein " gunmen " were imported in 'order to promote the disturbances....

"unbridled agitation " of " certairsunsernpuloter groups "—Monarchists and Communists—against the Republic. "These groups," they said, " openly advocate the murder of political...

devise means of assisting the famine-stricken Russians. American food supplies, amounting to •8,000 tons, had already reached Petrograd, through the efforts of Mr. Hoover's...

policy, to which the Indian Government are com- pelled 'to conform, of ignoring seditious agitation until there is a violent outbreak with loss of life and property. Mr. Gandhi...

in Berlin on Thursday, August -25th. Germany agreed to accord to America all the sights and advantages stipulated under the Treaty of Versailles, despite the fact that the...

by abandoning the criminal proceedings taken against two merchants, Kernani and Banerjee, on a charge of defrauding the Munitions Board. The prosecuting counsel stated that the...

fanatical Moslem race of Arab origin living in Malabar, broke out into revolt on August 20th, when the police attempted to arrest some Caliphate agitators at Tirurangadi, south...

received another blow, On Wednesday, August 24th, the Senate refused to consider further the Campbell-Willis Prohibition Enforcement Bill and voted a thirty days' recess. The...

Of the total population of 4,882,288, it was found that 1,034,069 were living in the city of Glasgow, and 1,539,307 in the county of Lanark Edinburgh had a population of 420,281...

from Sir Herbert Samuel on his administration in Palestine. Funds, it appears, are not available for a rapid expansion of the Zionist movement. It is a relief to know this,...

the excellent settlements of the Jews in Palestine with their pleasant villages and their skilful cultivation and when he -contrasts these amenities with the primitive...

written by its founder, the late Mr. Walter Hines Page, when he was Ambassador in London before the war. Many American diplomatists, like John Hay and John and Henry Adams,...

issued on Monday, provides that the organic law or constitution is to be submitted for approval to the Council of the League of Nations. The Arab Government are to be entrusted...

which will live long in cricket history. After it had seemed that Surrey were well on the way to beat Middlesex in the final for the County Championship, Middlesex unexpectedly...

only one proof of the seriousness of the situation as we have described it. This delegation has received a telegram from Jerusalem from the Executive Committee of the Palestine...

" Anti-Waste " programme, won the by-election in the Abbey Division of Westminster on Thursday, August 25th. He polled 6,204 votes, defeating Colonel _ Applin, of the Anti-Waste...

21, 1821 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 88i ; Thursday week, 88i ; a year ago, 841.

THE IRISH IMPASSE AND A WAY OUT. T HE latest letters between Mr. De Valera and the Prime Minister have almost confined the Irish issue to the single question whether the Irish...

the Black Forest last week, and the almost open exultation of the Monarchists at his death, have reminded the world that Germany is far from having regained her political...

A BOUT thirty members of the Poplar Borough Council, headed by Mr. Lansbury, have decided to go to prison rather than obey the " precepts " of the London County Council. They...

[ComaimmaTED.1 DEPEATEDLY, consistently, and untiringly, as your readers are aware, you have advocated in these columns the cause of Economy. You advocated. it before the term "...

There isn't a chap in the country like my man Cox," Farmer John will tell his cronies in between a game of nap, " when you can get him." That is the trouble with - Cox. In his...

THE TASK OF THE INVESTOR. (To THE EDITOR op THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—There have been few occasions when the investor has had greater justification for perplexity as to the...

from the windows of a fast-moving railway carriage does not at first sound likely to be prolific of interest. That in practice, however, the contrary is the case the experience...

[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.] STAGE DESIGN AT THE VICTORIA...

Sia,--The well reasoned and thoroughly unbiased views expressed in the article on the above subject will be generally appreciated, although many will differ from the writer as...

" Tarn " suggests in his article, I am quite sure there are many people who would be only too glad to help to make the little exhibition of stage design at the Victoria and...

(To rat Enrroa or z " Srzersroa."1 Sm,—This is not connected with bees or honey. Pieces of ginger are suspended in solution of sugar and set in a warm place. Fermentation takes...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your article on the above question in last week's Spectator you draw attention to what are commonly called " Palestine bees" and "...

(To THE EDITOR or rae " SPECTATOR.") Sia,—The Moplah rising is extraordinarily instructive, but 1 have little hope that its lessons will be taken to heart. Every- one who knows...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sts,—What a perfect answer Mr. C. Poyntz Sanderson gave in his letter in your issue of August Gth to the Indian agitators who claim that...

" SPECTATOR.") Sia,—We are told that, politically, there is a slight rift in the lute of the Entente, and that all its notes are not quite in tune. If so, it is all the more...

pleasure to read your correspondent's sane comments, under this heading, in your issue of August 6th. It is a subject of which English readers are hearing far toe little just...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It may interest your correspondent the Rev. J. Edward Harlow to know that the beautiful words he quotes re Lord Kitchener are not those...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It may be of interest to the readers of your review of Professor E. Browne's scholarly history of Arabian medicine, in the Spectator of...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") your issue of August 27th An Inspector of Midwives" remarks :—" More midwives would mean paore breast-fed infants." It is a pity that these...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sts,—Referring to the correspondence on this subject in youf issues of June 25th and July 23rd, without doubt the inhabi- tants of the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sus,—Perhaps modern life has brought about nothing more remarkable than the increase in mental troubles. This is accounted for by the high...

AENIGMA. How can I toll it 1 I saw a thing That I did not find strange In my visioning. A flawless tall mirror, Glass dim and green And a tall, dim figure There was between...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SprcrAvos."1 Sis,—May I be allowed to support "Layman's " letter in your issue of August 20th? The clergy are expected to be men of superior education...

[To ens Emelt OP TEl " Specrazoi.") SLE,—On the 23rd August a bird, rarely seen in this part of Scotland, a wryneck, was picked up dead, but still warm, near our house in...

[To THE EDITOR OP TEL "EnCTITOIL"l SIR,—In response to the numerous inquiries addressed to me by your readers on the subject of the 'steam pressure cooker, described in your...

SIZ,—Your delightful article of July 9th on the National Trust emboldens me to plead for 'the preservation to the public of the view-point on the heights of Parkstone known as...

REFLECTIONS OF A FINANCIER.* " Votes avez pour principe d'admini.stration que l'argent n'est rien, tand.s qu'au contraire dans lea circonstatices ole nous sommes l'argent est...

name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor must not neoessarily be held to be in agreement with the Mews therein expressed or with the mode...

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...

ONE would have to look far for a better narrative of adventurous travel than Mrs. Forbes gives us. She is ono of those people who positively enjoy getting into a tight place ;...

Ma. BURICITT'S new book on the Old Stone Age is precisely what has been needed by those who, without being experts in geology, anatomy or archaeology, are anxious to know more...

invaluable series of anthropological works a scholarly volume by Mr. J. H. Hutton on the Angami Nagas, one of the Naga tribes who live in the • The Angami Napes : With Some...

Wu described some time ago the Ter Meulen scheme for reconstituting the credit of the disorganized countries of Central Europe under the guidance of the League of Nations. It is...

MR. HARRISON HOWE'S book, The New Stone Age, has to do exclusively with our twentieth-century world, and not with the distant Neolithic conditions that his title might imply. To...

IT 17611 probably surprise most readers to learn that the names of the novels supplied to Isabella Thorpe " by a Miss Andrews, one of the sweetest creatures in the world," were...

RICH RELATIVES.* Mu. ComProir Mao/EN= reveals in his dedication that the theme of his story is in A Minor. One would have thought that any major key with the direction allegro...

spheres of knowledge often feels inclined to paraphrase Sir Robert Walpole's words : " There ought to be very few Prime Ministers. It is not good that many men should know how...

[Notice to this comas does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.) THE Snrrnmann MAGAZINES.—Dr. Addison has the place of honour in the Nineteenth Century for an article on...

and Stoughton. Ss. 6d. net.) A story of an impersonation in which the hero, for want of something to do, goes to Rangoon to take up a most disreputable post which a man of the...

net.)—A most admirable detective story in which the mystery of the first chapter is cleverly elucidated. The convolu- tions of the plot carry the reader with breathless interest...

Compara- tive Legislation (Elm Court, Temple) contains in its July issue a brief, but instructive, review by Sir Courtenay Ilbert of the now laws made in different parts of the...

the Empire (Empire Parliamentary Association, Westminster Hall ; 10s. net) is important for its admirable summaries of the debates in four of the Dominion Parliaments on the...

issued a sixth and much-improved edition of Tolley's Complete Income Tax Chart (published by the author, 2a. 6d. net), which, as we have said before, is a handy and useful...

Institute for the Blind, 224 Great Portland Street, W. 1, is once more a record of much admirable and self-denying work for blind people from childhood to old age. The output of...

Publicity Corporation, 2 rupees), a handsome monthly review " devoted to the development of India's resources and industries," is a sign of the times. Modem industries have been...

of Inverewe. (Arnold. 16s. net.)—This highly interesting book is based not merely on the reminiscences of Mr. Mackenzie, who is seventy-nine and has spent most of his life at...

S. Whitaker. (Bell. 30s. net.)—The siege of Motya by Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in 398 B.c., is a well-known episode in Greek history, partly because it led to the...

R. Matthews (Country Life, le. net); How to Catch Pike, by A. R. Matthews ; How to Know the Common British Butterflies and Moths, by W. H. Gurney ; How to Know the Birds, by W....

net.)—Charles Lamb somewhere compares the fantastic contents of one of his letters to monsters crammed into those empty spaces of old maps which were labelled Terra Incognita :...

Dr. W. H. D. Rouse and an Introduction by F. C. Happold. (Cam- bridge : Hafer. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Happold in his introduction on the direct method of teaching is most...

Press. 6s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Tomkinson has written an excellent little handbook which will give the reader in small compass an account of some modern methods of teaching children,...