too many bad signs as well as the nominally good one. The Government, after declaring, when the Treaty was introduced, that they would not consent to a single change in it—that...

newspaper reader has any conception of, and our chief reason for remaining pessimistic is that Mr. Collins, even if he has the good intentions with which Mr. Churchill credits...

that the Dublin Parliament returned as a result of the elections will not be required to take the oath to the King. If that be so the new Parliament will simply be another Dail...

Mr. Churchill's refusal of an inquiry. It is essential to protect Ulster. That being so, such reasonable steps must be taken as will make Ulster safe. From every military point...

T HE Conferences in London over the Irish Constitution have continued during the week, and when we go to press on Thursday there is a general though vague report, evidently...

out of the town of Belleek. When the first shell fired by the artillery with the British troops burst outside Belleek fort the I.R.A. garrison hastily retreated. It was...

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a letter from Sir Maurice de Bunsen, which we publish elsewhere. The forthcoming exhibition at Rio de Janeiro ought to be a good opportunity for opening up new- markets. During...

Government on the Hague Conference. It was, they said, to be a conference of experts; who would engage in a practical discussion of the.Russiaar problem. They must decline to...

protesting against the wholesale seizure. of sacred vessels, ostensibly to be sold for the. benefit. of -the famine- stricken, five priests.. were shot last week in Moscow. Tho...

world, may look beak upon republics as:symbols of tyranny. Do not pub that-bar on .the march of a nation." All this -may seem to - . blow both- hot: and cold and in'. places -...

24th to discuss-the raising. of a foreign loan. :by Germany, reported last Saturday that. theansaa of a loan :was impracticable under existing conditions. The. committee,...

joined - the committee as a private banker, holding no authority from the American Government, because he realized the enormous importance of the matter both to Europe and to...

not feel assured that "the obligations . of Germany, as. they: are at present defined and: as they- may - be enforced, are within her capacity,- and that hen will and. intention...

Mr. Lloyd George that there were "profound divergences on Many important points" between the Allies, and that the. experts at The.Hague ought to oome to an agree- ment before...

were present at a meeting in Dublin held in the interest of the panel candidates, that is to say, the candidates agreed upon by the, Collins-De Valera coalition. What Mr....

Committee has guaranteed a further £25,000. In other words, we are devoting considerably less than France, Belgium and Italy, while the United States contribution is more than...

German fabric gloves, under the " anti-dumping " clauses of the Sal e- guarding Of Industries Act. The decision has been long delayed, because it is well known that it raises...

rules to discuss the case of Jacoby in the House of -Commons, might have said that no question of Jacoby's irresponsibility having reached the point of insanity was raised at...

Tuesday, on terms which were virtually .the same as those accepted by the men's executive last winter and rejected by the men at & ballot. When the leaders of the Amalgamated...

articles in the Bpectator, and for many years also he wrote in the Economist. After his rupture with the Guardian his friends helped to start a new paper ealled the Pilot, which...

C. Lathhury, who was in his ninety-second year. 'His influence upon British journalism will not easily be forgotten and cannot be replaced. Ile was through and through a man of...

-had not -been a striking contrast between the -reprieve of True -and the execution of the boy Jacoby—he was little more than a boy—who murdered Lady White. We cannot help...

20th four members of - the party ramped below the summit at a height of 25,000 feet, never beforeattained by man. Three of the party—Mr. Mallory, Mr. Somervell and-Major Norton—...

Home .Secretary was not called to the ease of Jacoby so theta raedical inquiry- eould have, been held into his state -of mind. Finally, we think that the time-has come...

ignorance of the law, has occupied the attentiaa of the public during the week. We mean the organized attack upon the Home Secretary because he reprieved the murderer True, who...

June 15, .1922; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 99*; nuraday week, 99i; a yer I ago, 871.

THE CAB WET SECRETARIAT. M R. LLOYD GEORGE'S answer to the very weighty criticisms of the Cabinet Secretariat which were made in the House of Commons on Tuesday was far from...

been marked by a misunderstanding of the attitude of medical opinion to the question of criminal responsibility, and also by a complete failure to grasp the nature and scope of...

C ONSIDERED purely as exhibits, some of the most attractive things to be seen at the International Theatre Exhibition are two sets of marionettes and some masks. Mr. William G....

O XFORD' and Cambridge; and probably other Univer- , sities as- well, have lately been more prolific in rags ; hoaxes, practical jokes—whatever one chooses to call- them—than...

T .D0 not know when or from whom certain wild creatures received their names, but -these are in the main singularly well chosen. -How, for. i instance, could such birds as the...

THE BANKING POSITION.—II. GROWTH IN DEPOSITS CHECKED—SMALLER NOTE CIRCULATION—REDUCTION IN TREASURY BILLS —SOME PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS—POSSIBLE EFFECT OF TRADE...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sra,—Mr. Fowler's suggestion reminds me of the experience of a friend of mine who accompanied the Royal cortege to Ireland ten or twelve...

[To ms Enrroa or ram " Sezerizon."3 Sni,—On Friday evening last one of the most- striking demons strations ever held, in London took place- in_ the Caxton Hall. Never was the...

[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.] "LIBERTY" IN IRELAND. [To...

SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In September next the Brazilian Centenary Exhibition will he opened at Rio de Janeiro. A British pavilion is in course of erection to serve, first, as a place...

Sra,—Inne 18th, 1922, is the twelfth anniversary of the first parade of Surrey Veterans, which, in company with 1,320 other ex-Service men, I attended on the Horse Guards'...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") Scs,—Will you allow me to make a few remarks, from a non. party point of view, on your excellent and suggestive article? There is, I think,...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sra,—The centenary of Percy Bysshe Shelley's death falls on July 8th, 1922. The time is therefore ripe for putting into execution the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—" Every Sunday ten thousand-- preachers preach twenty thousand sermons—mostly 'duds." So, it may be con- jectured, the relentless...

northern parts think we are some- thing of sermon-tasters, and certainly it was with a sense of quiet amusement that we read Sir William Forwood's communi- cation to your last...

" SPECTATOR.") Si—The fact that your correspondent, Mr. A. Herbert Eckford, has had thirty years' experience of ranching in Canada, only retiring in 1914, will enable him no...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Si,—As the surrender to murder and assassination drifts to its inevitable and tragic sequel, it is interesting to note the " hedging " of the...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Some year or ets ago, when we were overwhelmed with letters from French and English people who were anxious to spend their holidays on...

[To THE ED/TOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SI12: — YORT correspondent signing himself " Questioner " criti- cizes very drastically the publications of the Guild of Health, apparently...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I wonder if you would be £0 generous as to allow me to tell your readers that Mrs. Waldo Richards, tho celebrated American reader of...

[To eat EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Wimbledon Common is now a place of reproach owing to its defilement by paper and bottles. Most of your readers have, of course, been...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTA.TOR."1 SH3, — Many of your readers will be interested to hear that the books and bookcase containing the Roll of Honour of these Marlburians who...

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

AN ODD MIXTURE. ? I TRILBY," AT THE APOLLO THEATRE—" THE BEG- GAR'S OPERA," AT '1111.1 LYRIC THEATRE, HAM- MERSMITH—" HEDDA GABLER," AT THR KINGS.. WAY THEATRE. Tgaoron a...

ESTRANGED. 'PAM now the siren lurings ; vain The yellow-curtained cottage light. Austorest moods are mine this night And aching clangours of the brain. Whence well these...

IN the still wood A bird sings, Fitfully, Beating faint wings In the dark sky A lone star ; And afar The moon rises. Faint arms waver In the night, And linger Cold and white....

DRURY LANE.—Decameron. Nights.. • • 8.0-2.15 [Diverting. But you must have dined well.] EVERYMAN, EIAMPSTEAD.—YOU Never Can Tel/ • . 8.15-2.30 [" Very 'pleasant and affable...

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...

writer's 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...

PETRONIUS.* Jr Petronius were to be re-translated, which, on the whole, we think was needful, the work could not have been more skilfully accomplished than it has been by Mr....

M. Nordmann's' is by far the most important and valuable, though M. Moszkowski's is the most amusing. M. Nordmann presents the Einstein Theory with a clarity and simplicity...

He will lecture on Rembrandt on June 21st, and Poussin on June 26th, at the Mortimer Hall, Mortimer Street, Upper Regent Street, at 8.30 p.m.

rune 22nd.—AEOLIAN HALL. Miss Phyllis Lett tUnumual delicacy as well as magnificence of tone distinguishes 3.0 s Miss Lett from the few great English contraltos.] June...

R.W.S. GALLERIES, 5A PALL MALL. [The New English Art Club is still all three—New, English, aid Art.] GROSVENOR GALLERIES, 51A NEw Bonn STREET. IA solid exhibition by...

IT has become almost a proverbial saying that everybody can write one good book—the story of his own life. The proverb would admit of fewer exceptions than any proverb in the...

United States from 1845 to 1849, has found at last a very competent biographer in Professor McCormac, of California University. It is odd that be should have suffered...

night of a certain play, a man in the front row of the stalls behaved very badly. He stood up, waved his arms, told • The Journal of a Lady of Quality, 1174 to 1770. Edited by...

and his influence on the Eliza. betimes lg.& model of all that the geneeal reader desiresin a =nee graph. Seneca is a capital hero fur such a study ;. the unbending stoic...

volume might call the text a pendent to the incomparable illustrations of American birds with- their nests, eggs and young which so enrich it. That would be unfair to MIS....

ABDICATION.* THERE is more than one way of treating the political novel. There is, for instance, Disraeli's way. There is also Mrs. Humphry Ward's way. But these two methods...

PaoFEsson LEmszerer, of the Witwatersrand University, has written a most valuable pamphlet on The National Resources of South Africa (Longmans, 5s.), comparable in its way to...

THE DEAN or WELTS in his new volume of Somerset Historical Essays (H. Milford for the British Academy, 10s. 6d. net) is concerned with the Somerset of the Early Middle Ages and...

MR. EDMUND BLUNDEN'S NEW VERSE.* MR. BLUNDEN is rather a puzzling poet. He seems suddenly to dangle complete excellence before us and never quite to give it us except in an...

Stoughton. 7s. 6d. net.)—An unusually circumstantial detective story, in which the chapters that deal with technical subjects as varied as the manufacture of pottery and the...

IT is difficult at this stage of his career to say anything new about Mr. Wells, especially as he himself has very little new to say. He has become a weathercock who swings to...

always writes forcibly, and her present novel deals with the heartshaking effects of the next war. It might, indeed, be used as a tract to convey an awful warning to all...

is another story which, like one noticed re- cently, deals with intimate Italian life. In the present case the girl who is married to an Italian marche.se is an American, not an...

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Diack. (Paisley : Gardner.)—This scholarly little pamphlet may be commended to British antiquaries, Mr. Diack solves the old puzzle of the Newton Stone at Insch, .Aberdeenshire,...

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15s. net.)—Sir Sidney Lee's masterly work, now nearly a quarter of a century old, appears anew in a third edition of the revised issue which was published during the War. In a...

Museum, Cambridge, describing the progress of the buildings which will accommodate the fine Marley collections and recording also many accessions by gift or purchase, especially...

be interested in the scholarly essay on " bethan Handwritings " which Mr. Hilary Jenkireson contributes to the Library for June (H.. Milford, 6s. net). It is a lucid outline of...