Lords on Tuesday, when the Archbishop of Canterbury protested against the prevalence of irregular reprisals. " You cannot cast out devils by calling in other devils," he said....

Ireland is the resignation of General Crozier, who commanded the Auxiliary Cadets. We cannot go into the whole tangled story of the dispute between General Crozier and General...

'temporarily convenient, they will find that while apparently allaying one trouble they will have created a new one involving he demoralization of all our principles of...

Salisbury is President, and which has on its committee a large number of distinguished Unionists, Liberals, and business men, has issued an excellent manifesto to every Member...

the Chief of the Police it appears that General Tudor wanted to help Sir Hamar Greenwood by saving him from what he called " bother," and also to avoid doing anything " that...

of dis- tributing abroad charts showing the extent of outrages by forces of the Crown, Sir Hamar Greenwood evidently made a mistake. The next day he withdrew his accusation...

O N Monday in the House of Commons Captain Wedgwood Benn moved an amendment to the Address in order to call attention to the condition of Ireland. He made a strong personal...

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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...

week. On . Friday, February 18th; an ernsoldier tattled viho'•tvas suffering from dropsy' and had - been admitted to the Cork workhouse- infirmary, was taken -from his bed and...

so clearly and ably,--but we are bound to say - that manifestoes of this kind, - which will fall chiefly- into , the -hands of party politicians, are comparatively -useless. The...

of Manchester last Saturday. They set fire to the stackyards at ten farms in different- districts and eaused damage to the 'extent of £20,000. Two of the uteri were- disturbed...

interesting article on Christian Reunion, by -Lord Hugh Cecil. 'We wish, however, to make it quite clear to-our - readers that Lord- Hugh Cecil & expressing his own opinions and...

of Socialists, Milan Catholics; and Demderitts" lost :61 seats; while the - eitreine Monarchists gained 32 seatd and the "People's Party," controlled by the wealthy...

" self-determination." Bolshevik armies last week invaded Georgia and advanced towards Tiflis. The Georgian Govern- ment have had to leave the capital and retire to Batum. Now...

Monday to consider Near Eastern questions. They decided that the plebiscite both of residents and non-residents in Upper -Silesia should be held on March 20th. The Greek Premier...

- Saturday last that Mr: Charles E: Hughes Would be his Secretary of State. We should -like to• congratulate -Mr. 'Harding and - his 'country - on his ailinirsible - cliace....

search of• one of the northern -districts sad•discovered the rebel headquarters. The rebel 'leaders MtfCrtanately escaped, but -left all their-papers, containing plans for...

discuss unemployment decided by a large majority in favour of constitutional methods as opposed to " direct action." Mr. Thomas pointed out the folly of declaring strikes and...

House of Commons on . Thursday, February 17th, by 262 votes to 84. The Prime Minister repudiated the suggestion that the Government were doing. nothing to relieve the unemployed...

Captain Ernest Evans, Coalition Liberal, was returned by a majority of 3,590 over Mr. Llewelyn Williams, Independent Liberal. Captain Evans polled 14,111 votes, and his opponent...

new experiment in industrial life. For some time past large firms which have been foremost in applying methods of industrial welfare have provided music for their workers in...

price of home-grown wheat was cleared up last week. The National Farmers' Union sent a deputation to the Prime Minister on Wednesday, February 16th, and were assured that the...

National . Democratio member for - Bradford, called attention to what he.said was a conspiracy on the part of certain officials in the Ministry, of Munitions to conceal the...

responsibility, for expenditure in Mesopotamia ,and. Palestine was being transferred to the Colonial Office, he proposed to 'hold a conference of our administrators neat •month...

Mr. Bromley because some members of his union had suffered in an affray at Mallow did not take place. The larger railway union declined to support . the strike, the Labour...

rates was reflected on Friday, February 18th, in a Unionist amendment to the Address proposing that the -telephones should be -leased to a private company and thus yield a...

Apr, 15, 1920; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 84k; , Thursday ,week, 85; a year ago, 881.

EGYPT FOR THE EGYPTIANS. I LL-FORTUNE, or perhaps we ought honestly to say blundering, seems to have tracked the footsteps of the Government in everything they have done in or...

will find few more curious puzzles than Mr. Lloyd George's career and peculiar talents. Mr. Lloyd George seems to thrive on difficulties. In the case of most statesmen the...

addressed the Islington Clerical Conference , about " fellowship with other communities." All the Dean's utterances are important because he always thinks independently and...

bourhoods of London which it is difficult to analyze. The prosperous atmosphere of Mayfair seemed in pre-war days to depend largely upon window-boxes, but now that window-boxes...

T DESBOROUGH has introduced a Bill in the House of Lords providing for a fixed Easter. He proposes that next year and in all subsequent years Easter Day shall be observed on the...

(INE at least of our Government departments has had _1 the enterprise to put Pise building to a practical test, and the Interim Report issued by the Ministry of Agriculture, and...

THE STATE AND THE RAILWAYS. (To "Hz EDITOL 07 SPEOTATOR."] Six,-If I were to describe in a word the general feeling of business men with regard to the report of Lord Colwyn's...

Sia,—Mr . Zangwill's position is that the Arabs in Palestine have a prescriptive right to domicile there, but ought to tolerate some stigma of inferiority on account of the...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " Speornos."] am more familiar with Mr. Belloo's views on the Jewish question than he is with mine, for he is unaware that the poem he cites from the...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which Jill treble the space.] FINANCE — PUBLIC AND...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") " X's" interesting letter about F. W. Pennefather in the Spectator of February 19th he alludes to Pennefather's admirable book Is Ulster...

[TO THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I know nothing of Lady Sykes, nor do I care to ask what her motives may have been in launching such an indictment of the Government's...

Or THE " SPECTATOR."' Sin,—In your editorial comments on Mr. McKenna's recent speech, you suggest that the economists have not explored the influence of a depreciation of the...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—It is sad to read, on the authority of the Archbishop of York, that the negotiations for Home Reunion' have reached an impasse. My...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sre„—May I be allowed to announce through your paper that on Easter Tuesday the main part of St. George's Chapel will be closed, probably...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOE."] Sta,—In the article " Behaviour in Church," which appeared in the Spectator of February 19th, it is asserted that there are those who...

[To THE EDITOR or THZ " SPECTATOR.") Sm—The sensitive and animated little study, so attractively typical of the Spectator's lighter phase, which last week's number contained...

[To THE EDITOR 01' THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, In reference to a sentence in your article on " The New Model " in your issue of February 19th : " It is quite possible that some...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEcrrroa. - J Sim—I have just had my attention drawn to your very kind review of my book Direct Action in your issue of January 29th. I do not desire...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sta,—Mr. Thompson is right in stating that the inscription at the Dog River, Syria, mentions only the XXIst Corps and " a detachment of...

THE " SPECTATOR."] am exceedingly' grateful for the 'appreciative review of my boOk Hamlet and the Scottish Succession in your last issue. There is, however, one phrase on which...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIE, — The time has surely come when something might be done to show the world that domestic work is not dull, nor derogatory if done in the...

[To TIE EDIT= OF THE " SPECTATOS."] Sin,—Four readers of the above-named article, wishing to assure themselves of the existence of their subconscious selves, experimented as...

[To rat Boma or TIIE, " Eirrar41 OL"1 I.P.4,0." are the initials, now becoming familiar, of the Joint Parliamentary Advisory Council, a body of Members ♦ f Parliament and women...

unemployment doles the following case.has come to my notice A very capable domestic left. her place in, her native county to go into a mill, which, after a, while, went on short...

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REVOLUTIONARY DOCUMENTS.* ALL students of politics and.social economies are Under a debt of gratitude to Mr. Postgate for giving them the book which is the main subject of this...

GAIETY.—Vas Betrothal- . . . . . . . . 8.16-9,15 [A Maeterlinck musical comedy.] LORDONPAVILION.—London, Paris and New York 8.16-2.80 The last act of Andromaque by players...

CREDO. Wan is the end, then? Not a sigh, a kiss, A memory, a tear, a 'gabbing breath?— Hearts proud as oars- can stoop to no such death; Our royal State can scarce descend to...

fashionable words among those who are trying to alter the balance of power between Labour and Capital. Phrases, like men, come and go, and it is quite possible that within a few...

Theis, -the great heeler, has stilled the controversies which raged round Rhodes in his lifetime, and has confirmed the value of his services to South Africa. Rhodes has not...

DEVOTED admirers of Goethe are not numerous in modern Germany and are somewhat rare in Great Britain. Among them, however, we must count the late Professor Hume Brown, and his...

NOT many Orientalists are qualified to pronounce a weighty judgment on the absolute value of the literatures with which they deal. If their tastes are literary and not merely...

TWO NOVELS BY MR. EDEN PHILLPOTTS.* OF the two last products of Mr. Eden Phillpotts's pen The Bronze Venue claims prior attention, in virtue of its deviation from his usual...

too trusting a disposition ? Let him read Mr. Macpherson's book and be put on his guard, for here he will find anatomized the types who so repeatedly and so successfully "...

Tim official or semi-official history. of the war at sea is being issued in three sections. We have already noticed the first volume of Sir Julian Corbett's history of the naval...

lated by Maude M. C. ffoulkes. (Cassell. 21s. net.)—Princess Louise, the daughter of King Leopold, the divorced wife of Prince Philip of Coburg, and the sister-in-law of the...

the short story is not the ideal medium for Mr. Hergesheimer's talent, there is much good reading in this volume, which consists of stories of varying lengths. " The Thrush in...

•handbooks, edited by Mr. Victor Gollancz, under the general title of The World of To-day (2s. 6d. each volume). It opens well with an able and spirited essay by Sir Harry...

Keats's death is appropriately celebrated by the appearance of a third edition of Sir Sidney Colvin's excellent biography. He has made a few minor additions to the text. In his...

J. H. Slater has continued his well-known and in- valuable record of the principal books sold at auction from October, 1919, to August, 1920. The books are arranged alpha-...

and Unwin. 4s. 6d. net.)—Professor Murray in this " consideration of present dangers and the best methods for meeting them" shows himself very unfriendly to Mr. Lloyd George and...

British Academy. 2s. net.)—Dr. Macdonald's charming memoir of his old friend and fellow-worker, Professor Francis John Haverfield, will interest all who care for Roman studies....

6s.)—An ingenious story for the simple who love practical jokes.—Fivecorners, by Dowell O'Reilly (Beatty, Richardson, and Co., Sydney), is a collection of clever but somewhat...

Illtotiee in (hie column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.' Chronology of the War. Vol. IIL, 1918, 1919. (Constable. 16e. net.)—We must congratulate Lord Edward...

and Unwin. 8s. 8d. net.)—In this charming book by an accom- plished scholar the value of the Greek spirit is explained by contrast. The Greeks thought that Hellenism was born of...

(The Egoist Press. 3s. 6d.)—M. Cocteau is one of the most advanced of the young Frenchmen, and this book was very favourably received by his admirers in Paris when it came out....

This is the age of text-books, and we live and move and have our being, according to their instructions, so perhaps they can even teach us to be poetry lovers. Mr. Brown...

hill parish in Scotland ; the rural life there is charmingly and humorously depicted, and the descriptions of Nature are full of imagination and poetic insight. Had the author...

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