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documents and other papers, and photographs of destroyed property. " We believe," say the writers, " that the evidence we have been able to obtain is more than sufficient to...

to assume a judicial tone, and in spite of a tribute here and there to the police and an admission that Irish Republicans have committed murders, is an entire want of...

L ABOUR has spoken on the Irish question and has invited the country to add one more pretence to the many pretences which have brought about the present situation. The papers of...

is said, " will be found through a policy of violence or vengeance ; the only solution is granting to Ireland the freedom which is her due." These are most unhelpful words...

have been deliberately burnt by servants cf the Crown:— " Ineendiarism is part of the policy of the Black and Tans and auxiliaries. It is, we believe, one of their methods of...

Report on Ireland. Mr. A. G. Cameron, who presided, said that "if the British people knew the facts they would not tolerate them for five minutes." As the result of her handling...

or 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...

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(1) Withdrawing all armed forces from Ireland ; (2) placing the responsibility for maintaining order on the local authorities; and (3) providing for the immediate election by...

issued the illegal Irish Parliament, Dail Eireann, to rate-collectors. ny of the rate-collectors, who are the servants of the Crown, have not been sufficiently convinced or...

the Freeman's Journal for publishing a false report of the alleged flogging of a civilian by some soldiers in Portobello Barracks, Dublin, sentenced the defendants, Mr. H....

Commons an interesting account of the first year's work of the League of Nations. The Court of International Justice, he said, would come into existence as soon as more than...

a luncheon given on Wednesday, December 22nd, to the Canadian delegates returning from Geneva. He said that the League had begun well, but that it would not achieve its real...

frontier between the mandate-territory of Syria gn the one hand and the mandate-territories of Palestine and. Mesopotamia on the other. Northern Palestine will extend on the...

the town. Signor d'Annunzio's legionaries offered a strenuous resistance and seem to have held their ground. After a truce on Christmas Day the fighting began again on Sunday,...

holidays. On Christmas Eve a gang wrecked the Cork Examiner office, because the paper had supported the Roman Catholic Bishop's plea for a cessation of the murder-campaign. On...

to their Governments the question of Germany's illegal armies, thinly disguised as " Security Police " or " Volunteers," which are strongest in Bavaria and in Eget Prussia. The...

the wilder native politioians, was opened on Sunday with a characteristic address by a Madras Nationalist, Mr. Achariar. He denounced Mr. Gandhi's " non co-operation " scheme,...

The House of Commons sat through Wednesday night to Thursday afternoon, debating the Lords' amendments to the Agriculture Bill, to which a few Inde- pendent Liberals and Mr....

last week that the provisional native Council of State had begun its work. Alder Pasha, Minister of Defence, was , considering the question of enrolling an Arab army, so that...

December 22nd, described the negotiations which had taken' place for trading with the Bolsheviks. The Government had,, he said, laid down their conditions on July 7th last, but...

hope that trade might shortly reopen with Rusaia and that this might lead to peace in Eastern Europe. " is of the highest importance, however, that Poland and her neighbours...

report issued last week, proposed that the Prime Minister should be paid a salary of £8,000, instead of £5,000, in ecni- sideration of his increased burdens and...

favour of the much higher scale of charges proposed by the Post Office. In London, for example, the installation rent of £5 is to be raised to £8 10s., and each local 'call...

situation in the Near East. He said that the Allies were not ptepared to negotiate with Mustapha Kemal, the Turkish insurgent leader. It was possible that Mustapha Kemal might...

Apr. 15, 1920; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 821; Thursday week, 811; a year ago, 911.

" ILLEGAL GOVERNMENT " AND THE REMEDY.. TN another part of our issue of to-day Sir William Davison, the energetic and vigilant Member for South Kensing- ton, sends us some...

S INCE we wrote on December 11th protesting against the idea of entering into a naval competition with America and suggesting that co-operation with America, in order to do away...

T HE slump has come, as we all of us in our hearts knew it must come. It was inevitable, and in one sense it is a blessing in disguise because, as if by a surgical operation, it...

S O many British visitors to Russia have described their experiences that there is no doubt now in the public mind about the appalling conditions of star- vation, misery, and...

G OOD and bad wishes were taken more seriously in the past than they are now. Good wishes were expressed ceremonially upon every possible occasion. Friends and 'strangers...

A LONG letter from Lord Cotta, one' from - Marlborough to General Cadogan, and two signed by Prince Eugene bring one into the atmosphere of Esmond. Thackeray's hero tells us...

Sin,—It would require no great amount of mental a gility to deal with the events of the past year in a spirit of either optimism or pessimism. Much depends on the stand- point...

[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.] DIRECT ACTION. ao THE...

.tro roe -Eerroa or - setz " Seraretort."1 Sut,--In your leading article you have put your finger on one of - the outstanding causes of the failure to destroy the German High...

(To THE Enrroa ON TER " SPEOTATOR."3 • Mr. H. Field's letter- to you last week is one sentence I have found repeated again and again by " Labour " politi- cians: " The masses...

(To THE EDITOR or. THE " SPOSTATOIC"1 &s,—Your correspondent "F. W.' writes an interesting letter about a certain working men's. club. But a very long time ago there were...

(To THE EDITOR. OF THE " SFECTLTOR."3 Sus, If; as. I think it appears -from the.article in your issue of December 25th, you favour the creation of an Independent Unionist Party,...

(To sus EDITOR OF THE " SPECTITOR."1 Sire—As a professional mau with a wife and three children I shall be delighted to gratify the curiosity of " Widower," whose letter...

SPECTATOR."] SIR, —In the first paragraph of " News of the Week" (Decem- ber 25th) you say : "Persons insured under the Unemploy- ment Insurance Act would be eligible for...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Would you let me say a few words on colour in our streets? It would take too long to speak of all that might be done to make things...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sta,—Many years ago a cousin of mine was puzzled in the night by something like snoring or groaning under his windows, and going out to...

THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The writer of the article on " The Problem of Unemploy- ment" in your issue of December 25th is entirely mistaken in his information about Swiss...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Bin,—Mr. Newbold's letter, appearing as it does precisely throe days after Mr. Darwin Kingsley's notable and inspiring speech in favour...

[To THE EDTPOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—With reference to your review in the Spectator of December 18th of Dr. Marcus Paterson's The Shibboleths of Tuberculosis, I should...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—I have read the letters as to above in the last two issues of your paper. I have asked my keeper if he has heard hedge- hogs making a...

Quin the light in your faces : be passionless in the room. Snuffed are the tapers, and bitterly hang on the flowerless air. See; and this is the Image of her they will lay in...

SOME REFLECTIONS ON FAIRS AND THE CIRCUS.— AT OLYMPIA, THE AGRICULTURAL HALL, AND THE CRYSTAL PALACE. CantsxmAs brings the circuses and fairs that have been taking romance...

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...

THE AMEND. On Loveliness, sweet Joy, Healeth again The heart her fluttering Boy Hath shot with pain. Her Boy with dart on string, How fair he seemed— Such woe that he could...

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THE REFERENDUM AND INITIATIVE IN SWITZERLAND.* Tax book which forms the subjeot of this review affords great support to the plea for the Referendum or Poll of the People which...

augmentations. into a pleasant child's play.] LITTLE. --Grand Guig-nol . . . . . . 8.15-2.30 [A new programme. Miss Syril Thornlike strangles a Rus- sian general to...

child is the classification and grouping of two or three similar observed phenomena under one heading, Le., a word. The word not.only names them " dog " or " man," but expresses...

Wa could wish for no better portrait of the Empress Eugenie in her later years than that which Dr. Ethel Smyth gave in two recent numbers of Blackwood's Magazine. As a worthy...

MR. MI:muss has written an admirable little book on London, its history and government. In less than two hundred pages he contrives to give a lucid and entertaining outline of a...

THE Catholic Revival, though it is, as such, a force only in what are known as Church oirolee, has influenoed religious thought by way of antagonism. For half a century the...

Miss Sogiravima in her explanatory preface speaks of the contents of this volume as " a casual collection of by-products," and claims for them no merit save their candour and...

an adequate account of Professor Elton's remarkable and exhaustive study of the writers whose works appeared between the dates 1830 and 1880. A book about books is all very...

deals with a number of difficult problems connected chiefly with the spheres of consciousness and memory. Some of these, such as the able analysis of Intellectual Effort, and...

diseases can scarcely be too strongly insisted on. A single fungus disease of the coffee plant rendered the cultivation of this plant impossible in Ceylon and Dominica,...

Os. net.)—The heroine, an imperious young lady, the daughter of a marquis, thinks fit to change places in a fit of petulance with a nursery governess whom she encounters in...

INotlee in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] THE JANUARY MAGAZINES.—Colonel Ward, trade unionist and Home Ruler, opens the Nineteenth Century with...

THE VALLEY OF INDECISION.* The Valley of Indecision is in many ways a very remarkable book—remarkable especially for the fact that the author has chosen as the subject of his...

I. Newbigin. (W. and A. K. Johnston and Macmillan. 3s. 6d. net.)—This little book by Dr. Newbigin, one of the ablest of British geographers, is well worth reading. Within its...

and military medals and decorations that there should be a large public for Dr. Stanley C. Johnson's timely handbook The Medal Collector (Jenkins, 7s. 6d. net). This volume "...

G. R. S. Darroch records " the enterprise and achievements of the London and North-Western Railway Company during the Great War "—or, as Mr. L. J. Maxse more briefly puts it...

Cunninghame Graham. (Heinemann. 15s. net.)—During the war, the author was sent to report on the cattle industry of Colombia. The mission gave him the opportunity of writing a...

the working of Proportional Bepresentation at the recent New South Wales elections, and at Winnipeg and in Denmark. The difficult problem of filling casual vacancies is...

is written in English by a Spaniard... The lan- guage and style are excellent, It is a considerable achievement. The title essay does not present any startling new aspect of!...

millan. 18s. net.)—Mr. Abbott has written an entertaining book about Sir John Finch's embassy to Constantinople in the years 1674-1681, when the Ottoman power was still great...

little pamphlets by Mr. Charles White on The Pilgrims' Way, Dorking, and Hospitals and Almshouses of London. They may be had free on application to the Company at• Electric...

was founded early in 1919, has issued its first &Toil. The headquarters building at Cambridge is under construction. The Mem farm at St Ives is to be used for raising good...

author treats Dostoevsky as a psychologist and pathologist rather than as an artist, and his theories of him as such are convincing.

is difficult to get any clear idea of these four theo- sophical dramas of the soul through reading them in translation, for it states in the preface that they were written•...

of essays previously published elsewhere. Mr. Usury has an interesting theory of literary criticism, and he writes sympathetically of various authors. His judgment of Ronsard is...

Beliefs in the West of Ireland (Putnam, 2 vole., 22s. 6d. net), to which Mr. Yeats has contributed an essay and notes. The stories are told with admirable simplicity and lack of...

of the Imperial Institute's monographs on mineral resources, with special reference to the British Empire. It is an instructive oompilation from a large number of scattered...

By John D. Mathew and James Mathew. (Dundee: James P. Mathew.)—This book illustrates the spirit in which Great Britain's manhood faced the war provoked. by Germany. It records...

Clutton-Brock is always sound if not always- inspired, and his writings bring pleasure to many. In this volume he lays oblations at the feet of various Olympians. He is inter-...

6d.)—A comprehensive study of European.dramatists since Ibsen. The author is unfair to symbolists like Maeterlinck, Verhaeren, and Yeats, whose work he does not like, and...

to have imagination and a good vocabulary. " Red Lion Square " ia the best, reproducing admirably the romance of a wet night in that curious neighbourhood.

Directories, 8 vols., 64s. net) appears with Its usual punctuality, despite the difficulties that have to be overcome in handling such an enormous mass of names and figures. The...