uncompromising. He denounced the Treaty and spoke of Mr. Griffith and Mr. Michael Collins as men who were " subverting the Republic." " They have set their hands to an ignoble...

described how Mr. Lloyd George prevailed upon the delegates to sign. According to him Mr. Lloyd George said :- " It must now be peace or war. My messenger goes to-night to...

Minister for Fisheries, declared that the Treaty would mean the perpetual subjection of the Irish people. Mr. Lynch, another of the delegates to London, said that he had signed...

T HE Sinn Fein Parliament, when we write on Thursday, has not yet come-to any decision about the Settlement. Very likely the result of the long and strange debate will be known...

in secret session, and the secrecy continued until the end of the week. On Monday the doors were thrown open again to the public. By that time the members had arranged...

Readers experiencing difficulty in obtaining the " Spectator " regularly and promptly through the aboli- tion of the Sunday post or other causes should become yearly...

" and that 93 per cent. of the Irish people believe it to be good enough." He could understand those who were out and out in favour of a Republic, but he could not understand...

Commission. The people of Ulster had been led to believe that the Ulster boundaries were finally drawn in 1920, and he held that a great mistake had been made by the Government...

Ulster case was presented by Lord Londonderry. Ho denied that Lord Curzon was justified in saying that the Irish problem had been " solved with honour." Lord Birkenhead, he...

Die-Hard amendment repudiating the Irish Settlement was introduced by Colonel Gretton. It deplored the fact that the Settlement surrendered the rights of the Crown in Ireland,...

Settlement was resumed. Lord Sumner spoke strongly against the Settlement. He declared that when once Dominion status had been granted there would be no going back, and he...

to be an attempt to compel Ulster to come into an All-Ireland Parliament. He would have resisted that. But, fortunately, no such thing was proposed in the scheme before them. He...

House.of Commons on Friday,December 16th. Major O'Neill, the Speaker of the Ulster Parliament, accused the Prime Minister of a ".flagrant violation of.his pledge" in_giving Sinn...

see him before the Settlement had been agreed upon, he had said to Sir James, " You will be given an alternative to come into an All-Irish Parliament or to pay our taxes." Sir...

said in the House of Commons that it was not thought desirable to wait for the decision of the Sinn Fein assembly on the proposed Treaty. Lord Robert Cecil took the opportunity...

spoken of Lord Curzon, a man whose whole life had been one of great service to the State, as "a traitor to be repelled from theacquaint- ance of decent people." " Those are wild...

of Finance, came to London and began on Monday to confer with the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. According to the Daily Chronicle, Mr. Lloyd George intends...

on Thursday, December 15th, to reduce the demand for repara- tion from Germany. He pointed out in his reply that France had few unemployed because she was striving to restore...

Nov. 3, 1921 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 911 ; T hursday week, 901 ; a year ago, 81.

they would reduce the rates charged for the carriage of coal and coke, lime and limestone, and iron and steel from the New Year. The increase of 100 per cent. in the base rates...

mittee appointed last summer have presented their report to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. " A. P. N.," in the Daily Chronicle of Friday, December 18th,. stated that the "...

week that Germany could not pay the instal- ments, of £25,000,000 and £12,500,000 respectively, duo in January and February next. Germany had failed to raise a loan in London...

approved, last Saturday morning, of M. Briand's action in resuming diplomatic relations with the Vatican. M. Briand had threatened that he would resign if the majority of the...

the Labour Ministry as " expensive," and that it would reduce the numbers of the so-called Employment Exchanges, which certainly do not find employment for many people, apart...

the naval ratio of 5-5-3 between Great Britain, the United States and Japan. Japan is to keep her newest capital ship, the ` Mutsu,' of 40,000 tons ; America is to keep two...

political and economic agreement between Czecho-Slovakia and Austria. The Czechs are fortunate in their statesmen. President Masaryk has steadily worked for a real peace at home...

very clearly in Monday's Times. They quoted the promise of Sir Henry MacMahon to the Sherif of Mecca (the present King of the Hedjaz) in 1915 that Great Britain would " support...

THE NEED FOR A NEW PARTY. II IHOSE who believe that the consequences of the Irish Agreement and the foundation of the new State in Southern Ireland will be peace, goodwill and...

N EGOTIATIONS which may turn out to be the most important that have taken place between France and Britain since the Treaty of Versailles have been going on in London. Reports...

W E cannot at the present time describe what we think will be the configuration of the new Party or what should be its aims and principles in detail. That must be put off to a...

A HEARTY welcome to the National Citizens Union I Such a body has been long needed, and at last we have .got it ; or at least we have got a nucleus which, if properly handled...

I N England the word " Dena " is used in many senses. To adopt an ascending order of importance, we have Deans at the ancient universities to whom is entrusted college...

removing stallholders from the streets has apparently been widely, and in many cases successfully, resisted. From far and near we hear that the interests of the stallholders and...

INTERNATIONAL INDEBTEDNESS. [To THE EDITOR Or TEE " SPECTATOR."] find it rather difficult to decide whether to make my letter this week a cheery epistle dealing with such...

[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.] MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S SPEECH ON...

.• [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."3 SIH,—There are many hundreds of farmers in this country who are suffering considerable embarrassment from the absence of water, owing to...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,— Through the darkest days of the Irish loyalists, up to the very end, you have been so true a friend that your defection at this moment...

OF THE -" SPECTATOR.."1 SIR, —The splendid letter of Mr. Arthur Elliot, and the seven letters which followed it in your issue of December 17th, will be a very great comfort to...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—A great danger, hardly yet appreciated, threatens this nation. It is that by hook or by creek, on one pretext. or another, Germany...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR."] Stu,—There can be little doubt that any attempt to force on costly schemes for new Sees at the present time can only suc- ceed, as we are...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I notice in your review of Mr. Mullins' book, in the issue of December 10th, on the Leipzig trials, that you represent calling a...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sta,—I am sorry that Mg. Hore-Belisha has such a peer opinion of my intelligence. Perhaps if you will allow me to adopt his method of...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—In reference to the letter from Field-Marshal Earl Haig, which was published on November 10th by the leading British newspapers, I...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The record of the Spectator towards slave-owning wherever it .exists has been so fearless that I venture' to ask for space to call...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—During the War many people " adopted . " a lonely soldier with whom they kept in touch, a kindly act which was.greatly appreciated:...

BY the roadside The flowering plum-trees Are like village-girls Going to church on Sunday : And the flowering blackthorn-trees Are like white-headed pensioners, In twos and...

"SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER" AT THE COURT THEATRE. THERE are not many comedies more than one-hundred-and-fifty years old which the theatrical manager may fall back on to fill the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Srn,—One hears so much of robberies on Continental trains (not unknown on our own railways) that perhaps you will permit me to relate my own...

TO FELICE. NOTHING in love, not given, can be taken, Or, taken, is still less than nothing made ; And so much is love's credit therein shaken, That offers false are by false...

fTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sra, — In an article, "Bird Life from the Train;" in the Spectator of September 3rd, the following passage occurs :— "Both wood-pigeons and...

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 mode...

A GREEK comedy written in Latin by a Carthaginian in the Second Century B.C. and acted in the Twentieth Century A.D. by English actors speaking Latin with an English...

PILLARS OF THE STATE.* . SIDEBOTIIAM has written a very readable, nay, a very entertaining book. But he has not added much to the under- standing of the characters of the men...

LONDON PANILION.—Fun of the Fayre • • [An amusing revue.] CONEDY.—The Faithful Heart .. 8.30-2.30 [An attractive little play which contrives to be agreeably sentimental...

we felt as though a judge were summing up against the evidence. Sir Valentine Chirol is so capable an expositor of facts that he would not, in ordinary circumstances, convey...

on the Reconstruction of Belief with which the distinguished writer proposes to occupy what we may hope will be the long evening of a strenuous life. No English bishop is as...

Me. W. LIVESEY, who was for ten years chief clerk to the Miners' Federation and who resigned last spring out of disgust at the fatuous policy of the executive in forcing and...

to a conclusion the important series of volumes in which he and Mr. W. C. Braith- waite have studied the origin and development of Quakerism, beginning with the mystics of the...

Roydcn preach at her church in Eccleston Square will welcome tho addresses which compose the present volume. Miss Boyden has treated the problems of sex-relationship in a...

THE main purpose of the new book by Mr. G. C. L. Howell, acting secretary of the British Fisheries Society, is to bring the biologist and the practical fisherman into closer...

Mx. SYuOxDs has produced an imposing books that should please those " noblemen, connoisseurs and men of wealth " to whom the auctioneers still address their advertisements....

Tim second collection of Mr. Mencken's Prejudices does not deal with particular writers but, for the most part, with the environment of the American artist and its effect on...

MR. ZANGWILL.* I wrsu I had space to deal at greater length with Mr. Gilbbrt Norwood's delightfully stimulating book, Euripides and Shaw.' It is in the best tradition of modern...

Tiffs pleasant little book, Lyme Regis r a Retrospect, by Mr. C. Wancklyn (Arthur Humphreys, 10s. net), though it does not profess to be more than an embellished guide- book to...

MRS. TILOSIAS BAILEY ALDRICH, the widow of the well-known American poet who once edited the Atlantic Monthly, has written a pleasant volume of reminiscences entitled Crowding...

Ma. ALEXANDER PHILIP has tackled the thorny question of The Calendar : its History, Structure and Improvement (Cam- bridge University Press, 7s. 6d. net) in a lucid and...

TO LET.• IT will be remembered how at the close of the previous instal- ment of the " Forsyte Saga " the unfortunate Soames Forsyte had extricated himself, not without some...

(Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] The Geographical Journal for December contains a further instalment of Colonel Howard-Bury's wonderful...

THE VEIL.* I Timm Mr. de la Mare's new book contains evidence that he is changing his style. He still writes in the fantastic, magic vein to which we are accustomed, the mood...

Poets' Fellowship, Bristol. (Bristol: Partridge and Love, Ltd. 2s. 6d.)—An anthology of the work of six young Bristol poets, who have the good fortune to belong to a Poets'...

Mason. (Heath Cranton. 7s. 6d. net.)—Not a good novel, but a very interesting book. It deals with the dangers involved in the modern exploitation of science, carried on as it is...

and Danielsson, 18s. net).—Mr. Lethbridge's articles, reprinted from the Daily Telegraph, give a practised traveller's impressions of our West African colonies, especially...

is a pleasant and amusing account of a caravan tour across England' and Wales and across Ireland to the West Coast. The author does not write like Borrow, but shares his liking...

Islands. By Mrs. E. F. Vallentin. (Reeve and Go. £44s. net.). —One welcomes this volume of Mrs. Vallentin, with the accom- panying descriptions by Mrs. Cotton, and regrets that...

series of Onoto Diaries for 1922, in various sizes; all are well printed and strongly bound, and the prices are moderate. A very thin diary, about four inches high, with a week...

in sno- cession his Barbizon Hausa : an Illustrated Record (published by the author at 8 Henrietta. Street, Cavendish. Square), in which.le describes, with excellent...

Jones to the Humour of Homer, &o., has now been issued separately as No. 2 of the Life and Colour Series (Jonathan Cape, 2s. 6d.). It is a charming introduction to Butler, but...

Indian History at Allahabad University, is doing excellent work, both by his own researches and by training up a school of young Indian historians. He has now inspired his...

H. Welsford (Cambridge : Heffer, ls. net), is a very attra.e- Live scheme for a series of sacred tableaux which have already been performed at Cambridge. Carols and hymns, more...

18s. net.) Mr. Cohen's elaborate treatise, though specially concerned with British and American conditions, gives a useful account of the whole subject. Nearly half the book is...

printed for the first time by the late A. H. Bullen in an edition of a hundred and fifty copies only- Mr. A. C. Judson's edition (Yale University Press and Humphrey Milford,...

we think, destined to have .a successful career. Itsmembership is rapidly growing and the second number of its Journal (Royal United Service Institution) is even more...