I The returns of national revenue and expenditure for the first quarter of the financial year reflected only too clearly the disastrous effects of the miners' strike. The...

General Stenrer and Major Crusius, who were accused by I the French CGovernment of murdering French prisoners, were put on their trial at Leipzig last week. These were the...

The Greek troops in Anatolia evacuated Isni-d, on the Sea of Marmora, last weok, and took up positions further to the south-west. It is now feared that the Turkish Nationalists...

The Bolshevik agents in Constantinople who described themselves as a " trade delegation " were planning an insurrection, in concert with Mustapha Kemal. They intended to begin...

Mr. Frank Hodges, the miners' leader, has admitted in the Western Mail that the miners' strike was wholly unnecessary. He says that he and his saner colleagues wanted in March...

The Miners' Federation Executive last week secured the approval of nearly all the districts for the terms arranged with the coal-owners. The extremists made a desperate attempt...

As toe -write, a Conference, which began on Wednesday, is I being held in Downing Street under the immediate guidance of the Prime Minister. Lord Midleton and Sir James Craig...

It is probably wiser for us to say no more on the matter. I We will only express once more the hope that the Conference may bring, forth life even out of the ribs of death. If...

Wt e have dwelt elsewliere Mith Ireland and the hopes of peace I through negotiations w ith AMr. De Valera. On Thursday the omens seemed, on the whole, favourable. The matter...

SOME MORE TRANSLATIONS.* PROFESSOR GILBERT MURRAY has translated a play of Aeschylus. It has long seemed likely that this would happen, and now it has happened-and the play is...

MOLTKE.* - I LIEUT.-COLON1EL F. E. MV ETroN, whose luciferous study of the Marne Campaign placed him in the front rank of English military writers, now gives us a life of...

THINGS ETYMOLOGICAL.* ALL lovers of good literature and exact language will welcome Mr. Weekley's fascinating Etymological Dictionary of Modern English. If they are wise, they...

TIHE MURDER OF CANON FINE'LAY. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,-I have just seen your issue of June 18th, and I find in it some statements calculated to do widespread...

SPORT AND BARIBARISM. [TO THE EDITOR Or THE SPECTATOU."I SIR,--OnI a day when inany columns of the newspapers are filled with deescriptivo narratives of the grca t boxing...

TIHE GENTLE ART OF LEG-PULLING IN IRELAND. [To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTLTOR."] SIR,-Witll reference to the Spectator of June 4th, I should( like to make the following remarks:...

SINN FEIN: A CANADIAN VIEW. Uro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."I SiR,-At one time there was widespread sympathy for the Irish " cause " among all classes of Canadian people....

BISHOP OF LIN COLN'-S COSTS IN THE WAKEFORD APPEAL. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-As I see that there is a meeting of the National Church Assembly during the next...

THE THEEATRE. THE, ATRICAL DRAWINGS AND MODELS AT THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM. THAT the Victoria and Albert Museum should hold an exhibition of theatrical scenery and...

SWALLOWS. [To TH'E EDITOR OF THE "SPECTAToR."] SIR,-The description, in your issue of Juno 25th under this heading, of the cruel massacre of our sweet friends the swallows...

POETRY. A SIGN. How shall I know when the end of things is coming ? The dark swifts flitting, the drone-bees humming; The fly in the window-pane bedazedly strumming; Ice on...

TIHE WOMATN'S HOLIDAY FUND. [To THu EDITOR OF TMlE " SPECTATOR.'"' SIR,-I am hoping for a generous response this year to the appeal you so kindly permit me to make in the pages...

POETICAL SALADS. [To WnE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Surely it is rather hard to describe a p)oei in two lan- . guages as decadent. Would you really apply this to...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. CARDS ON THE TABLE. IT is said, though probably without a grain of truth, that when Mr. Lloyd George was asked why he did not put all his cards on the table...

On Thursdav, June 30th, the repliea of Houdon's famous bronze statueof George WAashington, presented to nsby Virginia, and well and becomingly placed in Trafalgar Square, which...

Mr. De Valera's Sinn Fein gunmen, if indeed they arc not I his masters rather than his servants, have shown that they have no wish to conciliate, as the credulous suppose. Near...

Sir Robert Home stated on Tuesday that the additional expenditure occasioned by the miners' strike was £S,S55,000. Most of this money was spent on the Defence Force and on the...

We are glad to note Sir Alfred Mond's speech on housing I to the Rural District Councils Conferenco on Tuesday. The Minister of Health said that the taxpayers were already...

[I The inscription on the base of the Washington statue describes it as the gift of "The Commonwealth of Virginia2. is this, we wonder, a correct description, or has sone...

This is merely lamentable. but the second instance of interior I e decoration as applied to mechanical transport is far more remark. a able. Tsau Tso-Lin, Governor-Cleneral of...

I It is with deep regret that we record the denth of Lxord Balfour of Burlkigh, which took place in Lonlon cii W'e(neIsay after a brief illness. Lord Balfowin, wvho was...

At present the decorative arts have great opportunities I The various new means of transport are now firmly established from a utilitarian, practical point of view. There is...

BOO KS. THE LATE LORD BRASSEY.* T.HE late Lord Brassey was one of those hard-working men W1O devote themselves to public causes without fee or reward, and * T.A.B.: A Memoir...

MAU S I C. AN EARLY OPERA OF MOZART. M. Ros-o's season of opfra inti7me at the Aeolian Hall ended on Saturday, July 2nd, with Pagliacci and Mozart's Bastien el Bastienne. The...

LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS. To the new Russian Ballet, with its Stravinsky music, its eerie back-cloth, and its stiff ugly dancing, every limb of each dancer seeming literally bound...

A Servant When He Reigeth. By John Travers. (Hodder and Stoughton. 8s. 6d. net.)-An account of the dangerous experiment made by an Indian official of taking a girl with whom...

FICTION. THROUGH JOHN'S EYES.t 3IR. HuOTLY ROBERTSON has written a confusing but agreeable book in Throug7h John's Eyes. The story, though not told in the first person, is...

ALFRED NEWTON.* tNR. WOLLASTON, one of his old pupils, has produced a most readable biography of the late Professor Newton, who held the chair of Comparative Anatomy at...

I READABLE NOVELS.-A Man May Not Marry Iis Grand- I mnther. By F. Morton Howard. (Holden and Hardinghanm. 7s. 6d. net.)-The art of the humorist has in it something akin to...

Here is a fact which they did not dei-n to notice, but I which was all the same well worth noticing. Our original article on the Japanese Alliance was cabled to America by the...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. T HE Mandarins, official and journalistic, who five weeks ago T assured us that we had found a mare's nest in the Japanese Alliance, and that all that was...

According to the Philadelphia Public Ledlqer, quoted in our newspapers of Thursday, our Government have made delinitc overtures to the United States for an...

It is not necessary for us to say how thoroughly we approve of the plan of first a Conference and then an Agreement as to all the points of possible friction between Japan,...

I Unfortunately, tho diagnosis of national opinion abroad is an art which appears to be entirely unnluown and unpractised by our Foreign Office. When such diagnosis is supplied...

Air. James Forbes is a well-known American plavwright, and The Famous Mrs. Fair, which gives its name to the present volume (Hoddor and Stoughton, London; Doran, New York, 8s....

WORKS OF REFERENCE.- -The Angler's Diary, edited by H. T. Sheringham (Field Press, 5s. net.), has reappeared after an interval of four years, and will be found very useful,...

The First Aeroplane Voyage frovi England to Australia. By I . ., . - I Sir Ross Smnith. (Sydney: Angus and Robertson; London: Australian Book Company. )-This attractive...

Holidays in Tents. By W. M. Childs. (Dent. 6s. net.)-| Mdr. Childs has much good advice for the holiday camper. He writes interestingly on the choice of a site, tents, beds,...

Political Economy Club, Vol. VI. (Macmillan. 21s. net.)-| Mr. Henry Higgs has prepared this volume to mark the centenary of the well-known club, which was founded in 1821 by...

The Cambridge University Press has begun to issue a series of English Plain Texts (Is. net each), which will be most welcome to those who can read while on a journey. The...

The Roman Catholic Church and the Bible. By G. G.Couiton. I (Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire: by the Author. Is. 6d.)-Dr. Coulton, a mediaevalist of high repute, has been moved...

An Empire View of the Empire Tangle. By Edward 0. i Mlousley. (P. S. King. 3s.)-The New Zealand Premier introI ( duces this little book, in which a New Zealand barrister,...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. [Letters of. the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read,and therefore more effective, than those Wuich fill treble the space.] W....

RESOLUTION AND INDEPENDENCE. lATE congratulate the Timtes most heartily unpon the VT great service it has done to the good cause, the cause of amity between the two branches of...

A CHINESE TEMPLE. THE temple at Cheung Chow, we had been told, was T worth seeing. Cheung Chow is a small island situated some eight miles to the south-west of Hong-Kong, and...

j We have received the June number of the Canadian Bookmann, a spirited quarterly edited by Mr. B. K. Sandwell in Montreal and published at Gardenvale, Quebec Province...

The Library, which is now devoted to the Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, in its June number (H. Milford, 5s. net) prints an account of Pepys's Spanish books by Mr....

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. l [Yotice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] I The London Mercury for July has some good verse, especially Mrs. Margaret...

POEM3S WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION.-Afloat and Ashore. By Mlichael Lewis. . *. I . .~~~~~ (George Allen and Unwin. 3s. Gd.)-Amusing| .. .... . . . . . -I! I little poems about...

POETS AND POETRY. AR. MARTIN ARMSTRONG.* OUR readers lately had an opportunity of judging some of Mr. Martin Armstrong's verse when we published his beautiful "Rain in Spring...

I The Army Quarterly for July (Clowes, 7s. 6d. net) contains a striking article by Sir Michael O'Dwyer on " India's Man-Power in the War." He pays a warm tribute to the...

[To TIIE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."? SIR,-In your issue of June 25th, in an article on "The PaleE, tine Blunder," the writer quotes the greater part of my letter in the Jewish...

THE ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE. [To THIE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.'] SIr,-I have read with much interest your correspondent's letter (appearing in your issue of the 25th ult.) on...

THE PALESTINE BLUNDER. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Fair, just, and impartial criticism is what every movement welcomes. But the criticism which you published...

THE NATIONAL TRUST. T HE Report of the National Trust for Places of Historic 1 Interest or Natural Beauty for 1921 is as fascinating as its predecessors. It shows considerable...

FINANCE-PUBLIC AND PRIVATE. AN ECONOMIC DILEhMMA AND THE WAY OUT.I. BRITAIN AFTER THE WAR. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] I SIR,-In dealing more fully, as I undertook to...

THE EPISCOPAL REGISTERS OF HEREFORD.* I1 THE Cantilupe Society is to be congratulated. It was founded in 1905 to do a definite piece of work-namely, to print the registers of...

THE REVERSAL OF THE LAND POLICY. THE Government have been compelled by the force of T circumstances to repeal the Corn Production Act, leaving the agricultural industry free...

FASHIONS IN DULLNESS. W HAT entertained our grandparents bores us. There W are, as it were, fashions even in dullness. In the days when men spent hours a day sitting at the...

THE FIRST DUKE OF GRAFTON\.* IT was a happy thought of Sir Almeric Fitzroy's to write a memoir of his ancestor the first Duke of Grafton. Henry Fitzroy was a man of spirit, who...