Ulster and guaranteed by Act of Parliament in 1920 were really regarded as legitimate matters for discussion. We trusted to the Prime Minister, and we have to admit sorrowfully...

had been commuted before the raids occurred. This may or may not have been known by the raiders. But what an extraordinary argument for Mr. Collins to adopt—that emotion at...

hours of Wednesday. Tyrone, Fermanagh and Derry were the areas mainly affected. The kidnapped Unionists were carried off by armed gunmen in motor-cars to unknown destinations....

• T HE situation in Ireland is once more extremely serious. The Sinn Fein gunmen have raided Ulster, and about a hundred Unionists, chiefly in Fermanagh and Tyrone, have been...

towards the end of last week. On Thursday, February 2nd, Sir James Craig met Mr. Collins in Dublin to discuss the rectification of these boundaries. The result of the discussion...

the mystery at once. They should say where they stand. They should inform the nation beyond possibility of further doubt whether they intended, as Mr. Collins avows, that there...

what Mr. Collins claimed was not a mere rectification by which a few Sinn Fein parishes here would go to the Free State and a few loyalist parishes there would be handed over to...

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office for seven months. His Coalition Ministry was rent by dissensions. The sympathy shown by the Clerical Ministers towards the Vatican, on the death of the late Pope,...

of the Geddes Committee would be laid before the House this week. The Government could not accept some of the proposals. In regard to Egypt,' which was not a sovereign state,...

put a question to the Secretary for Ireland about the raids into Ulster, but the Speaker said that he was inclined to think that as Parliament 'had transferred responsibility in...

Address on Wednesday, but we must call attention to Captain Craig's speech, in which lee:teetered that it would be a disgraceful thing to take away from the Northern parliament...

Clynes for his unwillingness to face the electors. The Government were committed to the reform of the House of Lords, like Mr. Asquith and Lord Crewe. The Washington Conference...

Prime Minister and said that if he was dishonoured all the members of the Cabinet were also dishonoured, because their action had been common. He declared that the rights and...

remark- able for the speech of Lord Grey of Fallodon. He supported Lord Londonderry's amendment to the Address framed in the interests of Ulster, although he did not actually...

in regard to the proposed Franco-British treaty of guarantee is continuing. It is said that France desires periodical consultations between the British and French General...

.Government would advance, out of unexpended credits, the sum of £2,000,000 to Austria, in order to help her in an acute financial crisis. France was doing the same. It was...

vague and cautious speech. The Labour Party, he admitted, were "not particularly anxious" to come into power at this moment —though Mr. Clynes knows as well as any one that...

with a reference to the good work done at Wash- ington and to the fact that our relations with America "enter upon a new and even closer phase of friendship." Agreements with...

evidence on which Lord Lee at Washington accused the French naval writer, Captain Caster, of adopting a doctrine of submarine warfare as abominable aa anything preached by the...

that on Sunday last the whole of Great Britain was declared to be affected. The movement of cattle, sheep and pigs was placed under severe restrictions. Masters of foxhounds...

departmental committee appointed to inquire into the charges which he made in his book, The Experiences of an Asylum Doctor. Re declares that the Minister of Health has...

the age of sixty-seven, will be remembered as the typical guerilla leader of the Boer War. He was so mobile and elusive that he seemed to be a Will o' the wisp. He appealed to...

in which Sir Sankaran Nair, one of the moderate Indian Nation- alist leaders, explained why he left the recent conference between the moderate men and Mr. Gandhi. The "Mahatma,"...

took up Mr. Gandhi's challenge. His demands, they said, were "such as no Government could discuss, much less accept " :— " The issua is no longer between this or that...

before beginning "civil disobedience" in the Bardoli district of Bombay. If the Viceroy will liberate all " political " prisoners and abandon his " repressive " policy, Mr....

- disorders in the United Provinces. Last Saturday at dhauri Omura, near Gorakhpur, a body of Gandhi " volunteers " attacked the police station, murdered the twenty-one...

Poplar were the victims of an outburst of those evil revolu- tionary passions which they have steadily encouraged. The Poplar Guardians announced recently that they would double...

Nov. 3, 1921; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 9314 Thursday week, .931; a year ago, t5f

• "ULTRA VIBES." A N attempt is being made to bluff the People and Parliament of Northern Ireland not only out of the rights and privileges, but even out of the area solemnly...

N O one is very enthusiastic about the reform of the House of Lords. To begin with, the House of Lords is not now unpopular with any class or party in the State. Indeed, it...

W HAT the Referendum, if adopted here, would mean in practice is this. If the House of Lords and the House of Commons could not agree upon the merits of a measure, which means...

I T has been a subject of universal remark that when the newly elected Pope, who has taken the title of Pius XI., blessed the people after his election he did so not, as had...

will end in that settlement which is long overdue. Let us say at once that in our opinion matters have been allowed to drift so far, owing to the hesitations and equivocations...

W HEN the tide is on the turn it is difficult to say if it has just begun to come In or is still going out. Fashions in unimportant matters box the compass so swiftly that an...

T HERE is one time in the childhood of us all which has nothing but displeasing associations, and that time is bedtime. To a child " bed " seems a guillotine. It applies the...

rilHOSE who, like the workers of the C.O.S., have spent their time, their energy and their money in helping others most deserve our help. They ought not to be obliged to ask for...

BANKERS ON THE SITUATION. INTEREST IN THE BANK MEETINGS—CAUSES OF THE INDUSTRIAL DEPRESSION—TICE NEED FOB NATIONAL ECONOMY—LABOUR AND 0 UTPUT — THE GENOA CONFERENCE....

[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.] THE CHARITY ORGANIZATION...

a letter, in your columns from "Another Correspondent" on the subject of teachers' salaries. The figures he gives are incorrect in every respect, as I will endeavour to show....

THE " SPECTATOR.") &a,—Lord Birkenhead's attack on the Labour Party would surely be more convincing if the Coalition Government had not been engaged for the last thiee years...

to think that the Charity Organization Society should have to appeal for support from the public, especially at a time like the present, for it seems to show that the invalu-...

" Specraroa."1 am surprised that so few letters appear to have reached you on the subject of the article you published a few weeks ago under the head, "The Falsest of False...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR.") Snx,—Now-that. Near Eastern questions are to be reooneidered in Paris, may I appeal to you to use your great influence among the educated...

"SPECTATOR."' SIR,—Mr. McKenna, while discussing German reparations in his otherwise valuable speech on January 27th, overlooked a fallacy which vitiates his whole argument....

[To THE EDITOR OP TRE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—There is no doubt that the question of dew-ponds is an attractive subject to many, but few, we are afraid, have -grasped some of the...

following your correspondence on dew-ponds may be interested to read an extract from an article on this subject by the Rev. Edgar Glanfield, entitled "The Dew-pond Makers of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' &a,—The following link with the past, recorded by a earre- spondent to the Times in July, 1910, seems even more remark- able than the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " Specrnoa.' , 1 Snt,—The element of great longevity is not always necessary to establish a direct and interesting association between our pre- sent and...

ITo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECIATOR.".1 Sra,—Professor J. Arthur Thomson has most kindly Offered to give a lecture in aid of the Port of London Day Nursery, 6 Pier Head, Wapping,...

THE " SPECIATOR."7 Sth,—For the last sixty years you and your predecessors have always done everything in your power to make the best of relations between the people of Great...

THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,--With reference to the statement in the Spectator, dated February 4th, regarding the present outbreak of foot-and- mouth disease in Great Britain, from...

"TILE WHEEL," A NEW PLAY BY J. B. FAGAX, AT Ttl.E APOLLO THEATRE. THIS is a play about Love and India in three acts. In Act I. we have the pleasure of beholding a punkah...

ON PRESERVING A POETICAL FORMULA. "THERE'S less and less cohesion In each collection Of my published poetries ?" You are taking me to task? And "'What were my last Royalties...

THE " SPECTATOR:"? RIII,—Iday I ask you to be so good as to allow the following notice to-appear in your paper? The family of the late General Sir Rodgers Buller have done me...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR1"3 SLR,--It may interest you to hear that on Sunday, January 29th, 1, found in. an elm tree in my garden here a robin's nest ,with three eggs....

(To THE Eprroa, or THE " SPECTA101."3 Sta,—Knowing the keen interest you take in nature notes I venture: to send you the following: This morning on a large lawn in front of...

(To net Eorroa or " SPECrITOS.") Sta,—You are a little at fault in your information about the late Pope. and his immediate predecessor. His late Holiness was elected Pope at...

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

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...

THE LEGACY OF GREECE.* This is a most attractive book. All concerned in its production deserve our heartiest thanks, and especially • The Leg ac y of Greece: Essays. By...

COURT.—JudiCe . . . . • • • • . 8.30-2.30 [Mr. Galsworthy's dramatic tract retains our interest in spite of the fact that what is probably its cause romans, a certain...

to contend against many disadvantages. His space is usually limited, and if he would give an at all adequate account of what is happening in the world of music he will seem on...

MR. GRBENBLg'S method in this book is interesting and deserves to succeed rather better than it does. He is an American traveller who during his wide voyages judges the world...

PROFESSOR Urtz has written a fascinating book on the Greek world in the seventh and sixth centuries before Christ, with the object of showing that its problems were in some...

Wz can warmly commend the first two volumes of the Cam- bridge Economic Handbooks, edited by Mr. J. M. Keynes (Nisbet and Cambridge University Press. 5s. net each). The object...

Ma. Lucas has filled two large volumes with the record of Abbey's life and work. The artist's life was one of extra- ordinary industry and productiveness, as may be seen by the...

moment. Some parents, who have adopted new and liberal methods in their children's education, are disappointed at the results. They see that some friend's child, who has been...

BY an odd coincidence, while the story of the Queen of Sheba has just been adapted for the film, the Ethiopic work giving the legend in full has been translated and edited by...

the son of the author of Two Years Before the Mast, has published the diary which he kept during a visit to England and Europe in 1875-6. After half a century this book,...

ISAAO F. Maneosson, the well-known, American journalist, has written, under the title of An African Adventure (Lane. 218. net),. an interesting book on a tour which he made...

NEW HAMPSHIRE before the Revolution was virtually ruled by a native dynasty of Wentworthe, descendants of a William Wentworth who had joined the earliest settlers in the colony...

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF HARRIETT FREAN.* THOUGH the material which Miss May Sinclair uses in her new book consists, of course, of the events in the life of a real human being, yet...

the first section of Part I. the catastrophe, which is to come at the end of the book, is described, though it breaks off abruptly half way in its accomplishment. Then follows...

(Mills and Boon. Os.) — This is a collection of stories of the Chinatown of Melbourne. The complete adapta- tion by the Chinese of the streets in which they live to a...

MUSIC.* THE quality of Mr. Freeman's verse is very uneven. Perhaps it is the fact that he generally sticks to one mood and one method that brings this home to the reader. When...

Gardner, Darton and Co. 2s. 6d. net.) The four plays in this little book can be recommended to Guiders who have to organize entertainments. They require little scenery and no...

net.) —In spite of the widely varying and very definite views on the dieting of school boys which have found expression in the correspondence* columns of the Times, the truth...

Contract. By C. S. Kenny. (Cambridge University Press. 20s. net.)—Professor Kenny has abridged the collection of cases made by the late Mr. G. B. Finch, and has added cases...

importance of the fungi is due in part to the fact that they cause so many destructive diseases in plants of economic or ornamental value and in part to their instrumentality in...

Stoughton. 6s. net.)—Mr. Radford's. little book is a plea for the nationalization of banks, of land and agriculture, of mines and transport, as a preliminary to the...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Princess Mary : A Biography. By M. C. Carey. (Nisbet. 3s. 6d. net.)—Princess Mary is very young to...

of Foreign Languages Transcribed into English, by Lord Edward Gleichen and Mr. J. H. Reynolds (7s. 6d. net), which will be of great value not only to geographers but to many...

Tutorial Press. 8s. 6d. net.)—This is a scholarly attempt to deal with the whole field of modern economics, and should prove a lucid introduction to the science for those who...

net), with accompaniments and revisions by Mr. G. H. Clutsam, is being published by Messra.Murdoch,Murdoch and Co. Sally in our Alley, Jock o' Hazekkan, Come Lassies and Lade,...

title of Hong Kong : Slavery or Adoption? an appeal to Members of Parliament to support the demand for an inquiry into the system of child-slavery prevalent in Hong Kong. It is...