on the essential need for suppressing crime and disorder in the North. We are glad to know that considerable progress has been mode within the last few days towards preventing...

looks as if the Republican idea is gaining ground. On Sunday the executive of the German People's Party, hitherto Monarchist in its views, formally declared that Germany could...

Army " are at Limerick. We are told that the whole First Southern Division " area has been cleared of Free State troops, and that it has been possible to detach men belonging to...

irregulars are being successfully rounded up in Leitrim, Sligo and Donegal. Nevertheless, the irregulars have been able to do a great deal of damage to property, including many...

satisfactory response to their appeal to all men of good will to rally to the side of the Free State. The Lord Chancellor in the House of Lords on Thursday, July 6th, made a...

asked for no ascendancy over the Roman Catholic minority, and that the liberty they demanded for themselves they were pre- pared to extend to others. The minority had every...

T HERE is another delay in the meeting of the Irish Provisional Parliament. It was to have met on Saturday, July 15th, but it has been put off for a fortnight on the ground, as...

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that in these exceptional times the Safeguarding of Industries Act was intended as a wall against a deluge of absurdly cheap goods which might come upon us through the collapse...

read a second time in the House of Commons on Friday, July 7th. Mr. Amery said very truly that the treaties " represented the greatest triumph of practical idealism " attained...

conflicting interrogatories. The Bolsheviks continue to ask for immense credits, and the European delegates repeatedly inquire what security they offer to the foreign investor....

a hopeful account of the state of Mesopotamia. The cost of our Occupation had been reduced for this year from £24,221,000 to £9,096,000, and should be much less next year....

used to persevere in walking on the right in spite of sundry attempts to force us from that constitutional position now hardly know what to do. Formerly, when we collided...

cotton- spinners, invited the Prime Minister last week to suspend the duty on fabric gloves until the Lancashire case against it had been properly investigated. Mr. Howarth, for...

the right probably dated back to the time when people carried swords. That again may be so, but we think there was another rule, probably contemporaneous with the carrying of...

of Canterbury who, on behalf of the British Churches, had protested against the attack on the heads of the Orthodox Church and had proposed to send a small Protestant delegation...

attention to the attempt in London to persuade people to walk on the left. He said that forty local authorities in the London police area had joined in the attempt and he...

time in the House of Commons en Monday, and was carried by 199 votes to 57, is rightly named, inasmuch as it deals with a multitude of subjects, small and great. One clause...

meeting of the London Library. He was able to endorse a most satisfactory report, as also was Mr. Gosse, who, we are glad to note, was elected as Vice-President. That is a most...

Northumber- land put a very pertinent question to the Government when he asked whether the people who had hawked about promises of honours had done so with the authority of the...

in discussing the revived scheme for a new bridge over the Thames immediately to the south of St. Paul's. We earnestly hope that the Corporation will delay a decision and give...

of the National Gallery have determined to try an experiment in the policy of making our Palaces of. Art also Palaces for the Peoples Pleasure. They are arranging for a...

the embargo, now said that it ought to be ended, as he regarded the pledge given by Lord Ernie at the Imperial Conference as a pledge that extended beyond the War and must he...

the Canadian cattle embargo, but we must record here the most interesting and encouraging debate which took place in the House of Lords on Wednesday. Lord Chaplin moved a...

Tuesday that the Admiralty adhered to its decision to build the two capital ships sanctioned by the Washington Treaty. They would be reasonably proof against any likely methods...

the Consistory Court last Saturday to remove the Red flag and the Sinn Fein colours with which he had persisted in decorat- ing the church for some years. The Chancellor of the...

July 13, 19221 5 per cent War Loan was on Thursday, 1001 6 ; Thursday week, 100; a year ago, 88k.

COMMERCE, LABOUR, AND THE CREED OF CHRIST.—I. M EN and masters, what shall we do to be saved '— industrially and commercially ? " The question we have put is the question of...

M ANY of those who want to retain the embargo on the importation of Canadian store cattle are presenting their case in such a way that the public is in danger of being seriously...

of preliminary talk the Resolutions for the reform of the House of Lords were announced on Tuesday. Nobody seems to take them very seriously and their vagueness suggests that...

N OW that the crowning cupola of the London County Council's new Hall has emerged from its cocoon of scaffolding and the bustle of a Royal opening is upon us, even the casual...

W HEN one has made a blunder, there is only one thing to do—to own up. In drawing attention to Lord Sudeley's splendid work in regard to the Museum Lcclurers and Guides—work in...

THE FALL IN THE MARS. [To THE EDITOR or THR "SPECTAT,OR."1 SIR,—With public attention concentrated upon the economic crisis in Germany, I need not perhaps apologize for making...

" SPECTATOR." Sra,—The following extracts from a letter just received by me from the rector of an important parish in Southern Ireland will help your readers to realize the...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sus,—I am -grateful to you for publishing " A. H. L.'s " letter on Hesketh-Prichard. I know it will be much quoted, and I hope it may...

[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.] HUTA ONSLOW. [To me EDITOR...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] Sia,—The statistics given by Mr. Neal, the acting Chairman of the Cattle Markets Committee of the Corporation of London, and quoted by...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THIS " SPECTATOR."] Sea,—Your correspondent " Clifford's Inn," in a letter in the issue of July 8th concerning Mr. Galsworthy's play, Loyalties, complains that...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—A Coalition newspaper, the Daily Express, made the following brief announcement on July 6th :- " It is computed that at least 10,000...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—At least thirty-seven times Wesley went to Sheffield, where, this July, the Wesleyan Conference meets. Extraordinary scenes accompanied...

" SPECTATOR."] Stn,—Mr. A. B. Walkley, in a recent article in the Times, has propounded the theory that an author, once he has published a piece of literature, is not justified...

[To THE EDITOR or TYE " Etracsasoas'] Sin,—The recent controversy on " The Novels of To-day," which has been occupying several morning and evening papers for the last few weeks,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] Sra,—The publication of an authoriied text of Shakespeare, "a consummation devoutly to be wished," has been advocated by Sir Sidney Lee on...

[To THE EDITOR. or THE " SPECTATOR.21 noticed. with interest that you referred, to the present state of affairs in Palestine in. last week's issue of the Spec- tator. You may...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE. " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Could you by any chance help me to obtain, a copy of some lines about Ireland, a parody on the first lines-of the "Bride of Abydos "...

to see Mr. George Mackenzie's kind refer- ence in your issue of June 10th to my paper on_ " Prehistoric Cooking-Places." The interesting quotation which he has given at length...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPEOTATOR."1 SIR,—May I be allowed to supplement Miss Layard's- notes on the finding in England of stones which in prehistoric times had been placed...

[To TELE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."]. quite agree with. your contributor that the Short-eared. Owl is "worth hearing more about," so perhaps you will allow• me to supplement....

sent to us, great or small, will be acknow- ledged in our columns and at oncesent on to the C.O.S. Cheques should be made out to " The Spectator " and crossed " Barclay and Co.,...

.1:11..h BYRON FILM. 4 ` A PRINCE OF LOVERS : BEING THE ROMANCE OF LORD BYRON," AT THE PHILHARMONIC HALL. GAUMONT COMPANY, DIRECTED BY C. C. CALVERT. I` Or all the -names that...

Thu MURDERED FACE. Wrr.tovr droops now her breast upon the breast Of waveless water, Leaning her cheek against that hueless cheek ; And her leaves speak Tender as .• silence...

RAYMARKET.—The Dover Road .. . . [Mr. A. A. Milne's pleasing comedy is played in the shadow of too vast a butler.] PLAYIIORSE.—Tke Second Mrs. Tangueray . [Mies Gladys Cooper...

submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do his best to return contributions in case of **action. Poems should be- addressed to the Poetry...

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...

SOME BOOKS ON PHILOSOPHY.* " Fon many years," writes Professor Wildon Carr in his preface, " it seemed to me that philosophy was paralysed by the inability to offer any escape...

[A short version of A 31441summer 21 ighe a Dream, with music by Mr. Martin Shaw, will be performed in the natural amphitheatre north of the Serpentine in Hyde Park on...

THE NATIONAL GALLERY (Room XVIII.). [" The Holy Family," by Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra, a little-known pupil of Zurbaran. The most important of four pictures recently...

before us profess to have written with no other object than to tell the truth about what they taw in Ireland. The intention is something to the good, as even the most...

great French naturalist, stands high in the world of science, but it is not alone to scientists that this biography, written by his kinsman, the Abbe Augustin Fabre, will make...

is essentially controversial. Its effect is that of a creed composed entirely of damnatory clauses : the interior note is absent ; and the passion of the polemic drowns the...

MR. BRANCH JOHNSON and his wife set out on a tramp from Nice to Brittany by way of Biarritz and the Biscay Coast, taking with them only Army packs. . Many people make similar...

learnt to fly, his new art developed with such astonishing speed as to leave the public somewhat breathless and confused. It is hard to believe that the first flight in a...

THE merit of this book is that, in a space of 348 pages, it fur- Wishes the young reader with a mass of facts which conveys a sense of the multitude of conflicting ideas and...

Two suggestive little books on ancient Rome deserve a friendly word. In The Growth of Ancient Rome (Oxford University Press; 2s. 6d. net) Mr. P. E. Matheson sketches with a firm...

the literature of the eighteen-nineties the more convinced we become that we have had dust thrown in our eyes. In the succeeding fifteen years the cry was so persistently one...

Arirearce. is now so rich in early editions of Shakespeare that the study of Shakespearean bibliography can be pursued in some respects with more ease in America than in...

SOME SHORT STORIES AND A SERMON.* [ComaaueacaTen.1 Pawl time to time modern novels, though they are by no means all " more indebted to love than life," lead us to ask ourselves...

net.)—Verse not lackin g distinction. The following, entitled " Flanders," will show the standard which Mr. Bra n ford maintains :— " Two broken trees possess the plain, Two...

net.)—Adam's Rest was a village in Cape Colony and the home of Miriam and Janet Lincoln, whose history constitutes the theme proper of the book. But the theme in this case would...

[WE publish below the first of three articles by Mr. Robert Graves, the poet. In them he makes suggestions upon some fundamental questions concerning poetry. In this first...

net.)—Dr. Lyttelton has cast into the form of letters between a sternly pious recluse and a sympathetic man'of the world his views on the training of the young. The book is...

[Fotios in this column does not toscesswily preclude subssessent review.] Through the Fourth Wall. By W. A. Darlington. (Chapman and Hall. 12s. 6d. net.)—The signal feature of...

Mr. Fisher's recent Essex Hall Lecture touches on several large themes, especially on the influence of modern science upon religious creeds and on the doctrine of progress. He...

oversee is cleverly and wittily stated in a pamphlet, The Town Mouse, the Country Mouse, and the Cats, by " Country Mouse " (Vinton, 2s. net). We do not agree with the author's...

Office, 6s. 6d. net) reveals the variety and high importance of the work that is now being done at Teddington. There is much less commercial testing and far more scientific...

(Manchester : privately printed by C. W. Hobson, 10s. 6d. net.)—The jubilee of a famous Lancashire institution is worthily commemorated in this little book, containing chapters...

from the income-tax payer, that a reform in Government printing would be widely appreciated. We are glad to find that the Stationery Office is giving serious attention to this...

(Clarendon Press. 3s. 6d. net.)—For school purposes nothing could be better than the Clarendon Series of English Literature, but the edition is also worthy the attention of the...

July Lieutenant-Commander A. S. Elwell-Sutton de-scribes • how he took H.M.S. Caddisfly,' a river gunboat of 100 tons, up the Tigris to Tekrit, 150 miles above Baghdad, in...

and well illustrated Guide to Nizamu-d Din, by Maulvi Zafar Hasan (Calcutta : Superintendent Government Printing. 6 rupees 4 amiss). The Moslem saint, Shaikh Nizamu-d Din...

General N. Golovin. Translated by C. Nabokoff. (Gyldendal. 10s. 6d. net.)—General Golovin, envisaging the Far East from a military standpoint, maintains that Japan is too strong...

of the Cambridge Plain Texts in French (1s. 3d. net each). These contain Moliere's L' Amour ilfeckcin and Le Sicilien ; Michelet's brilliant sketch of Saint Louis from his...

Unwin. 16s. net.)—This pleasantly discursive book is concerned with Fiji and the Lau Islands, where the author spent some years as a Government official. He touches on the...

on Canada in the Story of the Nations series appears in a third edition (T. Fisher Unwin. 7s. 6d. net). Mr. W. H. Ingram has added a dispassionate account of recent events up to...