Graham to take a similar course against the Duke of Northum- berland. Remember the Duke's words were in no sense privileged and were not even new. He had said the same thing...

" Perhaps I shall be told that this is too sweeping an indict- ment, and that the Executive are not all Bolsheviks. No doubt there are many members of the Executive who are as...

but we sincerely trust it will be made an opportunity for drawing the attention of the House of Commons to the Duke of Northumberland's speech. That speech concerns the House in...

with the Sinn Feiners in Ireland. The murder campaign in Ireland which was initiated in January, 1919, was intended to coincide with the revolutionary strike. Later, however,...

A VERY important meeting of members of both Houses of Parliament, presided over by the Duke of Northumberland, was held in a Grand Committee Room of the House of Commons on...

denounced the executive of the Miners' Federation in a passage which we quote textually :- " The history of the Miners' Executive may be summed up in a few short sentences....

Readers experiencing difficulty in obtaining the " Spectator " regularly and promptly should become yearly subscribers. The yearly subscription, including Postage to any address...

Thursday, May 5th, the decisions of the Supreme Council of the Allies in regard to Germany. She still had large irregular forces, contrary to tho Treaty, so that France could...

railwaymen in some places refused to handle imported coal The object, which at once became apparent, was to retrieve the collapse of the Triple Alliance. The undertaking to...

Tuesday. His first speech on English soil was of excellent omen and showed that directness and fearlessness which we have described in another column as his special...

and was accorded a State reception in London on Monday, when the King met him at Victoria Station and drove with him to Buckingham Palace. It is of interest to note that he is...

be no nearer an end, and yet, as we have tried to show elsewhere, the end is probably not so far off as many people think. On Friday, May 6th, the owners issued an official...

that Germany must pay £50,000,000 in gold or bills within twenty- five days. She must also pay in kind—in coal, dyes, timber, and material for reconstruoting French towns ; she...

House of Commons that Germany had tendered " a complete acceptance of every demand " made by the Allies last week. He read the German reply agreeing to carry out " without...

to Germany, giving her a week in which to accept their proposals for carrying out the terms of the Peace . Treaty. The German Ministry, headed by Herr . Fehrenbach and Dr....

to send representatives to the Supreme Council, the Council of Ambassadors, and the Reparation Commission. The President on the following day gave a favourable reply, saying...

that the Allied Commission would not award them as much of the disputed territory as they desired, rose in insurrection last week under the lead of M. Korfanty. They overpowered...

Bill. The Committee stage was finished on Tuesday, and there is now every reason to hope that the Bill will become law as an agreed measure. The promoters and opponents of the...

of appreciating as we do how exacting is the occupation of a journalist and how little time he either has the strength to give or can afford to give to causes outside his...

of Lord Burghclere, President of the Board of Agriculture in Mr. Glad- stone's last Government. Lord Burghclere was a man of singular charm, and his loss will be felt not only...

that they proposed to make every member's salary of £400 a year free of Income Tax, and to allow members to travel first class, free of charge, to and from their constituencies,...

moved two resolutions, in the House of Commons on Monday, as the basis of a Bill for safeguarding British industries against foreign competition. The first resolution approved...

the Allies' Paris resolutions of 1916 were framed as a reply to the Central Powers, who threatened, at a moment when they were confident of victory, to paralyse the economic...

De Valera on Thursday, May 5th, at the Shin Fein leader's invitation. Sir James Craig made it clear that Ulster would work the Government of Ireland Act, and that she would be...

every day during the past week. A peculiarly atrocious case occurred at Rathmore, in Kerry, on Thursday, May 5th. A Sinn Fein gang killed Thomas Sullivan, a poor and harmless...

Saturday night. A number of soldiers, supported by roughs carrying a red flag, broke the windows of the principal shops and stole the contents. The police were assaulted and...

Apr. 28, 1921; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 871; Thursday week, 871; a year ago, 851.

A LEAGUE OF GOOD CITIZENS. THE clouds of revolution and of industrial chaos 1 which have been darkening the mind of the nation during the week bring to mind a very great...

I T is with particular pleasure that we welcome Colonel Harvey, the new American Ambassador to England. He is essentially a journalist, and a journalist of the kind necessarily...

I T was always certain that the miners' strike would fail in the sense that there would be less employment after the strike than there was before it. But we are now inclined to...

to tl e Allies' ultimatum is a tremendous relief. We shall not enquire too closely whether we ought to make our acknowledgments to the insight of our own Government, or to an...

S TRANGE as it may seem, Dickens, who had in him a real touch of eloquence and might have been a great orator as well as a great humorist, once came very near to a Desperate...

PAU. THE villa gardens and public parks at Pau abound with . birds of many species—magpies build near the big concert rooms, woodpeckers, blackbirds, chaffinches, sparrows, and...

LIFE INSURANCE BONUS PROSPECTS. [To THE EDITOR or THE " SELOTATOR."3 Sia,—In these days of public and private extravagance and apparent abandonment of the old virtue of thrift,...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read,and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the specs.] THE MINERS' BALLOT. (To IRE...

SPECTATOR.") his letter in your issue of May 7th Mr. Fawkes ex- presses the view that, while private prayer is "a natural outcome of religion," public prayer, though it need...

or letters submitted to hint, but when stamped and addressed envelopes aro-sent he will do his but to return contributions i n case of rejection. Poems should be addressed to...

our war memorial is " Death is swallowed up in victory."

the war I remember reading in one of the newspapers a correspondent's account of a visit he had paid to a soldier's burying-ground. Many of the fallen were French- men; the...

SIR,—For a wayside cross the most striking inscription I have seen was after the list of those who died for their King and country :- " Is this nothing to you all ye who pass...

following couplet for the inscription 011 war memorial:- " Stooping to Death, youth Pride of Life laid down. They rode to Deathless Honour and Renown." —I am, Sir, &c.,

SIR,—Note " all those ":— " To the praise of God the Giver of victory : and in grateful remembrance of all those who gave their lives for their King and country, and for the...

[To THE Enrroa or THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—I regret to say that " Englishman, " writing in the Spectator of May 7th,_ is quite wrong. There are, unfortu- nately, authorized...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."' Sut, — In face of the acute crisis which appears to threaten the country, I cannot help sending you the following summary of the...

the question of inscriptions for war memorials, those who are interested might find useful examples in a little book produced by the Victoria and Albert Museum, entitled...

[To THE Entree or ma " SPICCUzoU.") SIR, —I know nothing of the authorship of The Glass of Fashion, nor whether, pursuing, if I may, the closing sentences of the invigorating...

Sia.—In reply to the appeal of "Non Nobis " in your issae Of April 30th I subjoin two couplets, in case either of them should appear suitable for the war memorial to which he...

" SPECTATOR."] Sus, In reply to your correspondent's request for a suggestion as to a suitable inscription for a war memorial, either of the following appeals to me as being...

to the request of " Non Nobis" in your paper, may I suggest the following lines:— " Friends of the Dead, in fragrant memory keep Their names, the harvest of whose death ye...

(To TEE EDITOR or THE " SPwrnort."1 Sta,—In your note to my letter on this subject which appeared in your issue of April 30th you say: " The real question is whether such taxes...

SPECTATOR.".] Sot,—May I ask through the medium of your columns the following questions :- (1) Is this degree designed to encourage theological study and research? (2) Is a...

" SPECFATOR.") SIR.—The Minister of Agriculture has stated in the House of Commons, in reply to the demand for a .820 tax to end the trade in horses for slaughter abroad, that...

Snit,—In your interesting article on "Lancashire and the Indian Cotton Duties " of April 2nd you quote Lord Cromer as having stated that " if India and Egypt were going to...

(To ran EIDICOS or THE " Spzernoa."3 SIR,—In advocating State purchase as the solution of licensing reform, Mr. A. F. Harvey refers to the recent report of the Control Board of...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—On the second page of the Spectator of April 30th, in the paragraph beginning " The German Government," it is stated that...

CTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—From time to time you publish for our edification tales of animal intelligence. May I contribute two, both of which have come under my...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIE,—Mr. Meares maintains that the most peculiar feature of the present method of fixing Easter is its being determined by an imaginary or...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] 6u4, In your note on the recent election you say that " Labour is evidently making no impression on Hastings," a statement which does not...

ARCHITECTURE AT THE ACADEMY. [COMMUNICATED.] ARCHITECTURE, to judge from its form at this year's exhibition , has certainly taken a turn for the better. Them is less of mere...

HARLECH IN EARLY SPRING. NAP:ED tree shadows lay sharp on the road; Carmine bright were the brows of the hills ; With a steady flame the gorse bush glowed ; In a riot of...

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...

" PERICLES " AT THE OLD VIC. THE Old Vie management is always enterprising. On Monday night they produced the play of Pericles, which has not been acted in London for seventy...

IT is melancholy to see Miss Cathleen Nesbitt, whom I had last seen as Belvidere in the Phoenix's production of Venice Preserv'el, and who before that had played the part of the...

WITH THE BATTLE CRUISERS.* Ma. Frusow YOUNG'S book is not only a most entertaining and skilfully written narrative of adventure, but a statement of facts which those who are...

Cal:MT.—Othello • • • • .. 7.50-2.0 [A competent production.] EVERYMAN, HAMPSTEAD .. 8.15-2.30 [The reopening of the Shaw season. The usual excellent company.] ST. MARTIN' s.—A...

Far East. which he revisited last year, is both interesting and opportune. During the war we were too fully occupied in Europe to pay much attention to China, but with the...

on Democracy at work. Only a practised veteran could have planned so large a work and executed it in such comprehensive detail, main- taining all the while the attitude of an...

" OUT of the eater came forth meat, and out of the Army education." The Master of Balliol's remark seems as paradoxical as Samson's riddle, but Lord Goren shows in his...

Ways we view the wreckage of the Great War, it is a pleasing diversion to seek amidst the ruin evidence of human progress. The search is indeed an arduous one, for on the...

Ms. CONRAD calls his new book a process of tidying up, and says that he has collected these papers in the spirit in which one • (1) Things which are Seen. By A. Tryetan Edwards....

THERE is much entertainment to be derived from Mr. Edwards' book on Things which are Seen,° but perhaps not of the kind intended by the author. For instance, we are provided...

THE HEEL OF ACHILLES.* The lady who translated her real name into the pen-name of Dolafield has never quite so openly indulged her sense of irony as in the now book which she...

glamour of prospecting for diamonds lay in the discovery of them. Discovery and thereby Easy riches are the only rewards valued by the diamond digger. Mr. Cornell was no doubt...

and Unwin. 7s. 6d. net.)—One comes to the actual text of Mlle. Marx's book somewhat dazed and deafened by the clanging chorus of commendation which has been collected in front...

VOICE AND VERSE. Some time ago we discussed in these columns the relations between verse and music, but did not carry our consideration much beyond the unquestionable fact...

Serope. The Fly-Fisher's Entomology. By Alfred Remolds. Edited by H. T. Sheringham. (H. Jenkins. 16e. net each.).— Anglers will welcome these handsome reprints of two famous...

Press. 12a 6d. net.)—Professor Thomson, a learned naturalist who is also a most engaging writer, has prepared this book of " nature talks "—one for each week in the year—to...

are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mists, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go "- he was not merely...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] A Lady Doctor in Bakhtiariland. By Elizabeth N. MacBean Ross. (Leonard Parsons. 7s. 6d. net.)—The late...

Hetherington. (Kegan Paul. 10s. 6d. net.)—Collectors will be interested in this list of Chinese potteries arranged according to provinces and to dynasties,and still more in the...

short studies of great subjects by well-known writers (2s. each). Professor Spenser Wilkinson in British Aspects of War and Peace deals with the freedom of the seas, with the...

Press ; H. Milford. 10s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Bouton, who had represented the Associated Press in Britain before the war and with the German armies until America joined the Allies, was...

15s. net.)—Mr. Lytton's account of his war experiences from 1914 when he enlisted in a Sussex battalion to the Armistice and the occupation of Cologne is well written and highly...

Pembrokeshire Telegraph. 3s. 6d.)—Miss Thomas relates from old family papers the curious story of an American colony in South Wales. The Quaker whale-fishers of Nantucket...

F. R. A. Jarvis, and A. N. Pocock. (Evans Brothers. ls. net.) This pamphlet is issued by the London Schoolmasters' Associa- tion to state its case against the women teachers'...