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Mr. Churchill pointed out- how patient the Government had been while the Provisional Government had been " forced or led into a series of weak and unsatisfactory compromises "...

statement that the agreement between the Republicans and the Provisional Government had been broken " at the bidding of the English." He described the irregular rebels as " the...

T HE Irish Provisional Government, if they had any intention of remaining in existence, could not possibly have refused any longer the numerous challenges to their authority....

but at all events they are acting. it is devoutly to be hoped that they mean business and that they will succeed in suppressing the fanatics who would keep Ireland in a welter...

various parts of Ireland, and as the attention of the Provisional Government is fastened on events in Dublin, the other movements may give Mr. Collins much trouble. We shall...

press on Thursday are exceedingly confused, but it is evident that the irregulars are still holding out in the Four Courts, though they have been driven to the back of the...

the forces of the Free State against the Four Courts on Wednesday were as follow. On Monday some of Mr. Rory O'Connor's men from the Four Courts commandeered several motor-cars...

Readers experiencing difficulty in obtaining the " Spectator " regularly and promptly through the abolition of the Sunday post or other cduses should become yearly subscribers,...

Government, the Provisional Government and the Northern Government to establish a neutral zone in the Pettigo and Belleek districts. It might become necessary to go further and...

remarked that the killing of any human being was an " awful act," but then he went on to say that he understood the attitude of mind in the assassins which had heen caused by a...

the details of Sir Henry Wilson's assassination, and we may now put them on record. Sir Henry was about to enter his house in Eaton Place after having unveiled .a War Memorial...

the Social Revolutionaries on trial there, and has returned completely disillusioned. He found that the defendants were denied justice. The charges against them were false, and...

from what generally happens in Ireland. Unarmed civilians joined policemen in pursuing the assassins, who walked backwards through Lowndes Place, Chesham Place, and Ebury...

the Southern Irish elections, should have said that " Proportional Repre- sentation cast its baffling cloak over a defeated minority." We should have thought that it showed up...

at The Hague on Monday. Litvinoff announced that he must have credits, goods or cash, whether from Governments or private persons. He asserted that the Russian harvest promised...

with full military honours. He was buried in the crypt of St. Paul's, in the grave which had been destined for Lord Kitchener if his body had been recovered from the sea....

.assassination had been received, adjourned as a mark of respect. The staff of the I.R.A., from its headquarters at Beggar's Bush, Dublin, issued a statement on Friday, June...

the way in which Europe was still drifting. It was essential, in the first place, that we should secure the co-operation of America in the economic reconstruction of Europe,....

a debate on the Genoa Conference and asked for information as to what really happened at Genoa. He was supported by Lord• Derby, who complained that the newspaper reports gave a...

Communism. By a vote of 3,086,000 to 261,000 it supported the executive in their refusal to recognize the British Communist Party. Mr. Hodges, the miners' leader, said that the...

called attention to Sir Robert Home's statement that at the end of May the arrears of income-tax amounted to £64,000,000. The arrears were half as large again as in June, 1921,...

opened last Saturday, is not only a boon to a very poor and crowded district but also a valuable addition to - the amenities of London. As the King said, modern London turns its...

his address he denounced the Peace Treaties and the Allied Governments, especially Japan. He had much to say about the "idle rich" and the evil of luxury, which is not by any...

reported last March in favour of Lady Rhondda's petition for a writ of summons, on Tuesday gave their reasons for. rejecting it. The Lord Chancellor, who had caused the...

second year in succession by an American. J. Hutchinson, who woe last year, was born and bred in Scotland, but Walter Hagen, the new champion, is an American by birth. His score...

expedition. The monsoon broke on June 3rd, and prevented a third attempt from being made on the summit. At the second' attempt on May 27th Captain Bence and Mr. Finch, who had...

June 15,

TOO LATE TO TURN. Mr. Churchill's adroit, and dialectically impressive, speech in the House of Commons is, we fear, going to prove yet another example of firm talking as a...

gallant soldier and loyal and devoted man, Sir Henry Wilson, only reached us on the Thursday afternoon after the Spectator had gone to press. Though we were able to stop the...

satisfactorily, or in the alternative to yield to, the strong public criticisms of the traffic in honours. There is a widespread conviction that the granting of honours in...

Rathenau last Saturday was as little of a surprise as a murder can well be. For some time he had been receiving threatening letters. Herr Erzberger was murdered last autumn ; an...

character and organization unique among the charitable institutions of the world " no one doubts, even in his secret heart. The King put the conviction of the nation into words....

A TROPICAL island has a sound, to British ears, more romantic than an East Anglian farm, yet when we come to daily routine, life on both is strikingly akin :- I....

STEADY MARKETS. TWO TRAGEDIES—POLITICS AND MONEY RATES AS MARKET FACTORS—OUR DEBT TO AMERICA— HOME RAILWAY STOCKS AND THE INVESTOR- ' RALLY IN MINING SHARES. [To THE EDITOR OP...

" SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Mr. Devlin at Westminster and the Roman Catholic bishops at Maynooth have been raising an outcry at the atrocity perpetrated by Ulster special constabulary...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—With regard to refugees from Belfast, it is interesting to relate that Mr. D. O'Brien, a Cork gentleman, wrote a few days ago to the...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which #11 treble the space.] PROBATION AND CRIME. [To THE...

" SPECTLTOR."] SIR,—I have been asked to convey to you the sincere thanks of the Charity Organization Society for the great kindness which you have shown in placing your...

ITo THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sts,—Some writer in your issue of May 13th, discussing " The Coming of the Wireless Telephone," takes a despairing view of this gentle art,...

(To THE EDITOR Of THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — May I draw your attention to the exhibition of M. Marchand's work at the Independent Gallery, 7A Grafton Street, which I believe to...

AMERICA WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC AND MANUFACTURING CO. Sunday, June 4th, to Sunday, June 11th, 1922. This program can be heard by anyone with suitable radio receiving apparatus...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEL " SPECTATOR."' Sie,—Having read the article on " Music in Our Picture Galleries : Why Not?" of June 3rd I thought it would be of interest to you to know...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " Sercraroa."] Sra,—St. Cross Hospital, Winchester, is no doubt well known to many of your readers, but it may not be realized that it is a combination of...

Sim,—The publication of the Children's Promise in the Spectator and our letter on rural amenities has brought us many inquiries as to the best way of dealing with the evils....

[TO THE EDITOR. OR THE " SPECTATOR."' SER,—It is welcome news that a campaign is about to be insti- tuted by the Underground Railway and 'bus and tramway companies against the...

[To THE ED/TOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' Sun—Your readers may care to hear of the Oxford University Dramatic Society's production of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme in a contemporary...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—I have decided that English poetry must not return to the blatant lucidity of pre-Georgian days. I do not wish it. You will find...

[To eini EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —The accuracy of the Spectator is almost unimpeachable, but it is recorded that even Homer nods sometimes, se I need not stand aghast...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] 451u,—S.P.G. missionaries often ask if the Spectator can be sent 4int to - them. If some of your readers would like to post their copy...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —Once again I bring the wants and claims of the Women's Holiday Fund to the notice of your readers, whose generous response to my...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —The notice of Royalist Revelations, by Henry Stuart Wheatley-Crowe, which appears in your issue of May 20th, opens with the statement...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—No one seems to have noticed that the great Duke of Marlborough died on June 16th (=27th), 1722.-1 am, Sir, &c., H. C.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—The " favourite words" of some prose authors may perhaps be as easily detected as the "missing word" from a popular prize competition;...

Robert J. Wilson, in your issue of June 10th, seems to think it impossible that a cuckoo can lay an egg in a wren's nest. He may he interested in the following facts : In the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIAM I have just read the letter in your issue of June 10th of Mr. Wilson with regard to the above, in which he says that " he cannot...

MR. WALTER RUMMEL. IN London, at least, no pianist of to-day has a more debated position among executants than Mr. Rummel. Abroad he is highly esteemed. Here he is as...

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ON D—, A LOVER WHO DIED IN AN ACCIDENT. He suddenly—the page read as it turned— Died. The indignant eye discerned No sense ; " good page, turn back " it cried, ("...

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...

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...

MR. GEORGE TREVELYAN'S HISTORY.* [FIRST Nonce.] MR. GEORGE TREVELYAN has written a very wise, a very fair, and a very interesting book on British History in the Nineteenth...

"THE SPANISH LOVERS," AT THE KINGSWAY THEATRE.—" CHUCKLES OF 1922," AT THE NEW OXFORD. Iv speaking of The Spanish Lovers last week I used the words " notice later," but having...

July 2nd.—ALBERT HALL. Band of the Garde Repub- licaine . . . . . . 3.0 [Glazounov, Saint-S18n3, Mozart. When will our military bands have such programmes July 2nd. WESTMINSTER...

NATIONAL GALLERY. [The old familiar faces will never fail us.] FINE ART SOCIETY, 148 NEW BOND STREET. [Mr. Tom Mostyn in a new and better style, and mediocre landscapes by Mr....

• 3.0 [Appreciations and readings of Shelley by Mr. J. C. Squire, Mr. John Drinkwater, Mr. Henry Ainley and Sir Johnston Forbxs- Robertson. Tickets free, to be obtained from Mr....

HAYmARKze.—The Dover Road .. 8.30-2.30 [Mr. A. A. Milne's pleasant comedy played in the shadow of too vast a butler.] PLAYHOUSE.—The Second Mrs. Tanqueray .. 8.15-2.30 [Miss...

This translation of the oldest part of the Iliad is chiefly inter- esting because it is written according to an interesting theory. Part at least of the theory has been familiar...

is for the young man who is too old to be a scout who is at the stage of being what used to be called a hobbledehoy. The book is directed to the abolition of this status. It may...

WE have recently had the second volume of a complete edition of Sir Philip Sidney, admirably edited by a Frenchman, Pro- fessor Feuillerat, and now we have the most...

IT is an extraordinary fact that though the name of the Union Jack—or the Union Flag, as it should properly be called—is a kind of shorthand expression of all that we stand for...

Ma. ALLEN, after an interval of nine years, has produced the fourth volume of his great edition of Erasmus's correspondence, which will rank among the leading achievements of...

Is Mr. and Mrs. Pennell had deliberately set out to damage the personal reputation of Whistler to the greatest possible extent they could not have succeeded more perfectly. The...

Tun German Social Democrats cut a pitiful figure in August, 1914, when they all, at the Imperial command, voted for the War, the idea of which they had been denouncing for...

AARON'S ROD.* MR. D. H. LAWRENCE'S new navel, Aaron's Rod, is an extra- ordinarily full book with a somewhat difficult beginning and a certain technical incoherence. It is,...

6d. net.)—When a critic confesses to having neglected many other pressing duties in order to unravel the mystery of a detective story a considerable efficiency in its...

Bernard Pares, Professor Seton-Watson and Dr. Harold Williams (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 58. net), is of high promise. It is produced by the School of Slavonic Studies at King's...

quarterly journal, Empire Forestry (Macmillan, 4s. net). The need for some organized effort of this kind is illustrated in an article on " Forestry in the Empire," by Mr. R. L....

its very high standard of interest. The Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence contributes an authoritative account, with maps, of " Our Opponents at the Battle...

net.)—Mr. Chisholm's familiar work, which first appeared a generation ago and has steadily grown and improved in successive editions, has now been thoroughly revised so as to...

net).—Mr. Varesi, who is the Assistant Director of Public, Instruction in Bhopal,-has written an elaborate essay on Omar's life and poetry. Omar is said to have been born at...

a series of volumes on the Kings and Queens of England Miss Christie has contributed a pleasant and readable life of the unlucky Henry the Sixth, who ought to have been anything...

[ntim in this column does not twee:rarity preclude subsequent review.] The Hibbert Journal for July touches on many subjects with its accustomed tolerance. Don Romolo Murri,...

the Enham Village Centre, near Andover, from the Village Centres Council for the curative treatment and training of disabled men. In their third Annual Report, published at 10,...

Unwin. 10s. 6d. net.)—Miss Mackintosh is the niece and biographer of the distinguished French Protestant missionary, M. Francois Coillard, who did much good work, first among...

the Rev. Edward Gepp. (Colchester : Benham. Is.)— Mr. Gepp has reprinted from the Essex Review a further instal- tient of his interesting and valuable studies of the Essex...