T was with the utmost relief that Unionists read the Lord Chancellor's words in the debate in the House of Lords on Tuesday. His words placed beyond all question the real...

the Roman Catholic Church in America, with large funds at its disposal, was working with the Irish-Americans and the Germans to create an anti.British feeling. But ho would not...

attention to Sir Edward Carson's declaration that Ulster would resist if any attempt were made at coercion. It is obvious that as the Government have most plainly forsworn...

the Government had consulted their law officers about Sir Edward Carson's speech, and were advised that there was no ground on which action could be taken. Mr. Clynes's motion...

was made last Saturday at the chief Ulster meet- ing, held as usual to celebrate the Twelfth of July. In proposing the repeal of the Home Rule Act, " which has been repudiated...

gratis, an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Half- Yearly Index and Title-Page—i.e., from January 4th to June 28th, 1919, inclusive.

the pledge specially emphatic and conclusive. He began by saying that though it would be wrong for an individual Minister to anticipate the responsibility of the Cabinet, it...

of North-East Ulster by Mr. Aubrey Herbert. But, after all, North-East Ulster has now been made more secure than over before both by pledges and events. That result was, of...

lettere submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do his best to return contributions in case of rejection.

informed the Germans on the previous day that the Allies had taken note of the ratification of the Peace Treaty by President Ebert, and would therefore discontinue the blockade....

government, but are our readers aware that it is merely a phrase, and that no one apparently means by it any- thing like Dominion government such as exists in the Colonies ?...

Auckland Geddes continued, 108. bid. per ton in 1913 and 26s. 00. to-day. The share of Labour had rise► from 6e. 4d. to 19s. ; timber, stores, and other expenses had risen from...

explained in an instructive speech why the price of coal must be raised by six shillings a ton. The reduction of output at the mines was partly due to lack of steel, timber, and...

Thursday week at his first meeting in his native city of New York. His Irish-American compatriots hooted President Wilson, Mr. Lloyd George, and the League of Nations, and...

to the Rhineland was published on Friday week. It constitutes a High Commission of four civilians appointed by Great Britain, France, Belgium, and America to represent the...

majestic and moving spectacle in Paris on Monday, when French and Allied troops marched through the long-closed Arc de Triomphe. The French crowds, as we judge from the accounts...

Thursday week. He said that, if the Treaty was not all that any one of the Allies could have desired, " the compromises which were accepted as inevitable nowhere cut to the...

Sir Auckland Geddes, complained that the Government had not asked him and his colleagues to co-operate in improving , the output of coal. The miners, he said,. were patriotic...

and good-tempered, as befits the lucent and stimulating air of New York, has the following, delightful re- minder of the existence of the Middle Class and what the world owes to...

made out of the coal industry during the war were, Sir Auckland Geddes said, made by bartering coal for neutral goods which we needed. That process of barter had. ceased, We had...

is always -ready to cure the hot fit was -given at the . Keswick Conference- of the Miners'- Federation on Wednesday. The preposterous proposal that a strike might be declared...

Service throughout the oountry, has proposed in its first Report to fix a standard of pay, pensions, and allowances for all the forces, large and small. Constables are to begin...

a further rise in the price of coal. Gas, for instance, would cost 6d. or 9d. more per thousand cubic feet. Our whole export trade was .threatened. Steel rails, now £16 a ton,...

that, where -a wife has a separate income, she-should be assessed separately for Income Tax. He could-not, he said, face a loss of at least twenty millions in revenue. However,...

from America with entire success, landing at Pulliam in Norfolk last Sunday morning, seventy-five hours after leaving Long Island. Her journey from the American coast :to the...

SIR EDWARD CARSON'S SPEECH. S IR EDWARD CARSON has been very roundly abused for his strong language at the great Orange gathering in Belfast. We are not going to deny that his...

W E have written first about the screaming and scold- ing caused by Sir Edward Carson's blunt speaking. Here we must deal with the essential problem, for it has not been altered...

W ISEACRES predicted that the Peace would be in some respects more difficult than the war. If the public did not recognize what lay behind the prophecy, they at all events...

over the ratification of the Peace Treaty and Covenant is now fairly joined, and Englishmen cannot help looking on with anxious concern to see what will happen. In Great Britain...

T HE mass of men do not have many opportunities for merry-making. Modern conditions of labour do not favour them. The junketings of an agricultural population are remembered...

T HE facts which are set out in the following narrative are not intended to prove, and do not prove, that the more abnormal phenomena recorded were external; but as evidence of...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the spaced ULSTER AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL...

[To THE EDITOR, OP THE " SPECILTOR."1 Six,—On Saturday the peoples of the whole Empire will join in glad celebration of the signature of that Peace which has sealed the victory...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Knowing Bohemia and Ireland well, and having con- tinuously stated there are contrasts but no comparisons between the two countries,...

OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—The telegrams we have been reading in our daily papers during the past month have set us all wondering why England, America, and the League of...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I bring to your notice the propaganda being con- ducted in this country by " The Friends of Freedom for India," a Society whose...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECIATOR."] Fin,—In the Nineteenth Century for December, 1917, was heralded the birth of a Government Fishing Fleet in New Ecath Wales. You will perhaps...

ITo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sia,—You say that the trial of the Kaiser will not be for an offence not previously defined, because many of the acts done under his...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—Renan could guess well sometimes, but he was not a prophet. In La Reforme intellectuelle et morale, which he published immediately...

" SPECTATOR.".1 SIR, — The Conference of Churchmen of Modernist tendencies, which is held every year under the auspices of the Church- men's Uuion, met this year on July 7th in...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —In the first leading article in your issue of the 12th inst. reference is made to " the fine old Jewish apophthegm : "Flier say. What...

" SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your leading article " The Future of the Turk " you refer to " the fine old Jewish apophthegm : They say. What say they? Let them say.' " But is it of...

SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Can nothing be done to put a stop to the wanton extravagance now in operation in Ireland ? As jobs aro distributed in turn to the two political parties, the...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —It is a matter of common knowledge to all who have had occasion to use official statistics, whether published or Depart- mental, that...

correspondent, in his tribute to the Scottish metrical version of the 124th Psalm, does it no more than justice. Its stirring words and distinctive melody have made it for...

SIR, — When so much consideration is being given to our National Anthem I wonder that no one has suggested putting in the beautiful verse written by Longfellow in 1880 for Queen...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As a sequence to your article " The Disconsideration of the House of Commons" in your issue of April 5th, you give as " The Remedy "...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia, — Your very interesting article on " Weekdays " contains the following sentence : " Children are apt to reply that the days have...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—" As for the objection that the [Emancipation of Women] Bill would let women into the Indian Civil Service, if a woman like Mrs. Besant...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The feat of ' R34' recalls Edgar Allan Poe's most successful imposition on the public). One 'day in April, 1844 the New York Sun...

[To vim Elam or THE " SPEOrATOR."1 SIR, I have just read an interesting letter in the Spectator dated May 24th. It is headed "Tale of a Rat" and tells of the disappearance of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "ersciavoz."] Sza,—In your issue of July 12th a letter headed " A Rare Bird " on p. 48 attracted my attention. This morning while hidden amongst currant...

rag " SPECTATOR."1 SIH.—The - outbreak of war in August, 1914, found the camps of the Boys' Brigade in full swing. Since then camps have been out of the question; but it is felt...

[To ms Emma or mm "Sesoveroa."] Sur.,—Yesterday (July 10th) a young friend of mine heard strange squeals arising from en invisible animal on the cliffs at Kingsdown, and soon...

[To rue Emma or THE " firzorsros."] Stn,—Is Army Form W. 5080 an absolute necessity ? The next-of-kin of each deceased soldier is required to fill it up in order " to enable...

LTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTAT011."1 cannot help wondering how many of your London readers know of the splendid work being done for the West- minster mothers at 60 Greek...

LIMEHOUSE WHARF. O HAVE you been to Limehouse Where many sailors go? The bowsprits of the ships stick out Over the wharf in row: And some ships come from China (It's a long,...

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.* THE American Academy of Arts and Letters, which comprises fifty of America's leading authors and artists under the presi- dency of Mr. W. D. Howells,...

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...

better Present in Peace or War than an Annual Subs rir tion to the Spectator. He or she who gives the Spectator as a present will give a weekly pleasure, as well as a weekly...

AMONG the war poems directly inspired by contact with its realities few have attained a wider circulation than " In Flanders Fields." The lines, first printed in Punch of...

Tim Clarendon Press has published, after a long interval, the third volume of Messrs. Fletcher and Walker's fascinating collection of historical portraits. It contains a hundred...

MR. KNOX I S sermons appear in a series of works of piety known as " The York Books," among which we notice the . following • Prim', I Do Thee No Wrong : Three Sermons on the...

THE corporate mind gets tired. Whole sections of the com- munity find at intervals that certain forms of both mental and physical work are repellent to them. They will not...

" DoN'T try a frontal attack on him. Just saunter along and start talking about anything else on earth than Jutland and the ' Killarney' and then lead him round by degrees." By...

is a novel with a purpose, but makes interesting general reading. It is a clever study of tempera- ment, and although, since it deals with the affairs of the last two or three...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent :veleta.] The Problem of Luxemburg. By Xavier Prum. (New York : Knickerbocker Press.)—The author of this book is...

Scottish history on a sotuid scientific basis, prints in its July number an instructive article by Miss Margaret Adam on " The Highland Emigration of 1770." The emigrants, far...

THE SKELETON KEY.* REGRET that we shall have no more stories from the author of The Lake of Wise and other ingenious and delectable romances is enhanced by the fact that The...

Bingham, V.C. (Murray. 6s. net.)—Commander Bingham in the ' Nestor' commanded a division of the Thirteenth Flotilla, which helped to drive off the enemy destroyers in the first...

(Macmillan. 25s. net.)—With the return of Peace the British School at Athens has been able to resume the publication of its annual volume. The School during the war served as a...

net.)—In this little book Mr. Stebbing, of the Forestry Department in Edinburgh University, sketches the history of our forests, describes the desperate measures which had to be...

J. C. Winston. $2'25.)—Dr. Lewis has written an attractive and engaging biography of the great American, whom he could count as a friend. " Those who knew Theodore Roosevelt...

subscribers two volumes of importance to students of Scottish poetry of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. One contains Pieces • front the Maleculloch and the Gray MSS.,...

D. Luke. (A. and C. Black. 7s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Luke's idea is to show that those who want an annual " cure " may take it at one or other of the many health resorts in this country...

(Harri- 8°134—This well-written pamphlet deserves a word of •acknow- ledgment. The author points to the immemorial belief of man- kind in prayer, which-even the Stoics did. not...

(Nelson. 2s. 6d. net.)—Colonel Buchan is nearing the end of his lucid, dispassionate, and well-written narrative of the war. With its numerous maps and its appendices of...

Swinburne. 5s. net.)—Australian history did not begin until Tasman first discovered the island-continent in 1642, and, for practical purposes, dates from the later part of the...

in the Louvre, with an English translation. It forms part of a series of " Texts for Students," which should be of great value to young theologians and historians. The student...

and scholarly volume of Classical Studies, dedicated to Professor C. F. Smith, on the completion of his twenty-fifth year of service, by his colleagues. The most interesting of...