T HE attempt to bring about peace in Ireland, which was made in the first instance by members of the divided I.R.A., and not by the politicians, has broken down. Apparently, the...

we learn from a message by the Special Correspondent of the Morning Post in Tuesday's paper, is waning. This correspondent. says that the leaders of the irregulars or rebels in...

moved the adjournment of the House in order to discuss the responsibility of the Government for the safety of the three British officers who were kidnapped in Ireland recently,...

a formula acceptable to the Bolsheviks caused the Belgian delegate to refuse to sign the joint memorandum. He declined to admit that the Bolsheviks had any right to confiscate...

effect asked the House to be patient. The real issue was whether we were going to stand by the Treaty and allow the Irish to manage their own affairs. We ought not to allow...

we have already referred, was formally admitted at the meeting of the Dail Eireann on Wednesday afternoon. If the rival factions of the I.R.A. really want peace, as they seem to...

in their order. On Thursday, May 4th, a truce was signed by represen- tatives of the two rival factions of the I.R.A. The truce was to last for four days in order to provide an...

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that France had done her utmost to collaborate loyally in the work of the Conference. Had she not desired it to succeed, she might have retired when the Germans and Bolsheviks "...

winter distributing relief at Kharput to Moslems and Christians alike, have been expelled by the Turks. They report that their expulsion is the prelude to fresh massacres of the...

terrible tangle, we need not rule out the possibility that unofficial or semi-official arrangements have been made which will turn out to be fruitful. We imagine that the...

the Bolshevik reply to the Allies' memorandum, which France and Belgium refused to eign. The Bolshevik delegates were per- suaded by the Italians to reconsider the wording of...

plained to him the views of the French Government. Their interview was apparently by no means satisfactory. The Daily Chronicle, the Prime Minister's own organ, announced on...

Lloyd George's character written by M. Philippe Millet, the well-known correspondent of the Petit- Parisien. M. Millet is such an old and well-proved friend of Britain" that we...

plans for reconstruction, Mr. Lloyd George is " -unwilling to listen to anyone." Yet, says M. Millet, every sensible Frenchman could have warned Mr. Lloyd George that the Genoa...

part at least of Mr. Steed's version of the Prime Minister's remarks. Nevertheless Mr. Chamberlain, on behalf of his leader, told the House of Commons on Monday that the Times...

Sudart, that he had assured the Sudanese chiefs of our intention to maintain British rule. Sir Sayed Ali Morghani and other leading chiefs had declared that the Sudan was...

had written to M. Barthou, asking him to contradict Mr. Steed's version of their conversation. He said :- " I request this because, as you know, I value Franco-British...

of Labour has decided to be responsible for the paper for the next six months. The price will again be raised to 2d. We are glad that the Council has come to this decision as it...

the net result Mr. Lloyd George may be doing what Sir Henry Wilson says, but his intentions in foreign policy seem to us to be good. It is his disastrous methods to which we...

in the House on Thursday, May 4th, took credit to himself for proposing to reduce the postal rates which he increased last year, to the grave injury of the public. These high...

who held a Court of Inquiry last week, tried in vain to arrange a compromise between the parties. In his report on the inquiry, which was published on Thursday, he said:— "In...

Peking joined battle on Wednesday, May 3rd, to the south of the city. Wu Pei-fu, of Chihli, attacked his adversary's western flank and after a day's fighting gained a complete...

did not know then, however, that Lord Ernle had promised the Canadians that their cattle should be admitted, nor had we then before us all the evidence that has since...

presided over a " Conservative rally." The Duke of North- umberland denied Sir Robert Home's expression of belief that there were " only insignificant and temporary differences...

strongly demanded the removal of the embargo on the importation of Canadian store cattle. He said that a slur had been placed upon Canada and that the Canadians felt it deeply....

and many men resumed work on Monday. The trade unions took a ballot on the employers' proposal to reduce the War bonus from 26s. 6d. to 10s. a week. Not one man in three...

Apr. 13, 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 99i; Thursday week, 99i ; a year agu, 871

a part has been played by the House of Commons in its corporate capacity as that played by the Times and by the Prime Minister. Surely it was the duty of some one in the House...

THE GENOA RECRIMINATIONS—A NATIONAL HUMILIATION. I T is difficult to express the sense of disgust and indignation which we feel in regard to what can best be described as the...

S IR ERIC GEDDES, by his speech at Sheffield on Tuesday, has put the nation again in his debt. Sir Eric Geddes may himself have been a heavy spender of the public money, but...

has been talked of so long is coming at last, and appears to be coming like an epidemic. The craze for it is a fever in America, and it has already spread to Canada. We read in...

W HAT is to be done with the great, unmanageable houses in the less fashionable quarters of London ? The problem is still with us, long as it has been discussed. Theoretically,...

[COMMUNICATED.] T HE first glare of modern criticism, falling on newer and dimmer periods in the history of art, on Cezanne and the Byzantines, for example, effectively thrust...

FINANCIAL AND POLITICAL FACTORS. ANOTHER ECONOMY COMMITTEE t—FUNDING LOAN RUMOURS—ECHOES FROM GENOA—THE PRO- POSED BANKING CONFERENCE—IS TRADE REVIVING ?—A BANKER'S VIEW. (To...

[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.] TILE TRUTH ABOUT IRELAND....

fTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTAT,OR."1 am afraid that the joint committee which Mr. Herman Cohen suggests could not lead to results of any value. People who, like Dean Inge, are...

once more laid the country under obligation by boldly tackling the Jewish question. A new publication has been attracting attention by the masterful unmasking of the wiles of...

Herman Cohen pulling your leg or are you pulling his? There is a lack of equipoise, which means a luck of humour, somewhere in his suggestion of a Commission of Eight (did he...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—" The Christian Church," you have said last week, " has . Preserved, so to speak, in its principle of comprehension a tiny atom of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Having lately spent much energy and very much time in making out a return of monies expended on the upkeep of an estate in Suffolk,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—lt seems surprising that so few critics of the Budget concentrate attention on the real blot—that is, the extravagant and burdensome...

[To THE EDITOR or TEL " SPECTATOR."] Sm,—Your praise of Mr. B. Shaw's dialectic strikes some of your readers as extraordinary. There is really nothing in his replies to the...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] 8114—While your article, " The Usual Unnecessary Crisis," damns the Prime Minister with faint praise rather than be- labours him with any...

those dear lovers all the year, And our exchanging light and shade As dark or bright reflection made, Blending through mirrored riso or fall And every windless interval. Might...

" IN LANDS MADE DESOLATE . . . IN lands made desolate by war, Little men hurry to rebuild their towns, Hasten in shame To cover up the signs of their silly quarrels, Lest a...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The most momentous event of the present time is the automatic, unconscious organization of all English-speaking peoples into a...

THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY. THE exhibition of the works of the International Society shown at the Grafton Galleries is somewhat of a disappointment : it might almost be...

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...

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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...

DECAMERON -NIGHTS " : A ROMANTIC PLAY IN THREE ACTS BY ROBERT McLAUGHLIN, ADAPTED (WITH LYRICS) BY BOYLE LAWRENCE, MUSIC COMPOSE]) BY HERMAN FINCK, AT THE THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY...

OPERA AT COVENT GARDEN. A FEW months ago the fate of English Opera was trembling in the balance, but now that balance has a alight bias on the right side, for we have opera...

May 13.—ROYAL ALBERT HALL. —The Vatican Choir .. [A programme drawn mainly from Palestrina and sung by the one choir in the world which can claim to give an authoritative...

EVERYMAN, HAMPSTEAD.—The Pigeon .. 8.15-2.30 [A notable incident in the Galsworthy boom.] COURT.—Windows . • • . • • • • 8.30-2.30 [Another.] COMEDY.—Other People's Worries...

OUR PRIME MINISTERS.* Ma. CLIVE BIGHAM has found a gap in our historical records and filled it with a very useful and entertaining book. Curiously enough, up till now there has...

In this book Mr. Ronald McNeill, himself an Ulsterman, has written a vigorous narrative of the campaign by which the Ulster PrOtestants and loyalists tried to save themselves...

THE liberation of Poland, after more than a century of partition and subjection, was one of the happiest results of the War. Yet for political reasons the Poles have received...

UNDER a title' , aptly borrowed from F. D. Maurice Mr. Major publishes his reply to the charge of heresy brought against him by a London clergyman. The charge was so absurd that...

good example of the straightforward historical play, and if it has neither the poetical intensity of Swinburno's nor the moral solemnity of Mr. Drinkwater's, it is likely to be...

realize that Christianity is more a Hellenic than a Hebraic religion. The- Founder's teaching is, of course, neither the one nor the other—it is His own ; but the Founder gave...

CAMBRIDGE recently celebrated the fourth centenary of its Press by publishing a short history, and now Oxford has done the same for its still older printers. Some Account of the...

MR. H. A. MeCNKSAEL, of the Sudan Political Service, who is well known to anthropologists by his elaborate account of the tribes of Kordofan, has produced another valuable book...

books on the graphic arts, has produced an elaborate work on Pen Drawing.' In this finely produced volume, crowded with illustrations, the author surveys European and American...

READERS of Mrs. Harter's preface, on being informed that the novel was written at the instance and with the advice of Mr. George Moore, will be fully prepared both for a story...

MORTAL COILS.* TrrEsE are some more short stories and a little play by Mr. Huxley. One reads them so much faster than other people's stories that it is rather difficult to make...

tions from Racine,' has perhaps taught us more about his art than has Mr. Hamilton in his agreeable monograph. 2 The first thing, perhaps, that we notice in comparing the text...

H. Friedlaender. (Collins. 7s. 6d. net.)—A long first novel in which the heroine after many vicissitudes comes to the con- clusion that, contrary to Bacon's opinion of...

British Periodicals. Is.)—Fair Padua, nursery of arts, cele- brates next week the seventh centenary of the foundation of the University by students seceding from Bologna. Sir...

(Macmillan. 21s. net.)—Benedetto Croce's Aesthetic in the original Italian consists of two parts, Theory of Aesthetic and History of Aesthetic. In the first edition of his...

of British Members of the Swiss Alpine Club, at 436 Strand. It contains much that will interest climbers. Professor F. F. Roget walked for nine hours to attend the Association's...

(Longmans, 30s. net.), appears in good time and contains a com- prehensive and on the whole impartial review of one of the most critical years in our recent history. The authors...

[Notice to this column does not necessarily preclude subserpumt resins.) The Geographical Journal for May contains the first part of an account by Mr. Douglas Carruthers of the...

S.E. 5, has issued a leaflet, Shall the Con- tinuation, School Continue ? which states very forcibly the case for the new schools set up by the L.C.C. Education Committee last...

By A. Corbett-Smith. (Same publisher and price.)—With a season of opera in full swing at Covent Garden there should be some demand for these little hand- books. The ordinary...

Grayson. 4s. 6d. net.)—The author, who has visited Eastern Europe, says that he is " a business man who wants to know why trade stands still and how we shall pay for to-...

no sufficient reason why the duty of preaching should be confined to the clergy ; and the results of such a ministry as that of Miss Boyden may lead us to desire to see the...