most remarkable was that in Dublin of Brigadier-General Adamson, of the official I.R.A. He seems to have been murdered by members of the unofficial I.R.A. Meanwhile, narratives...

I RELAND is in as bad a case as ever. In a sense it is worse, because the longer anarchy continues, the more difficult will recovery be. The so-called Peace Conference in Dublin...

called by the Labour leaders as a protest against " the outrages of gunmen, irrespective of party." The ordinary activities of the city were brought to a standstill. The only...

Readers e xperiencing difficulty in obtaining the " Spectate - I- regularly and promptly through the abolition of the Sunday post or other causes should become yearly...

breakdown in the working of the agreement recently come to in London between the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State and the Northern Parliament. Tho Provisional...

condemning the persistent • outrages. The Lord Mayor said that with all due deference to the various parties in Ireland nobody could escape the fact that there was " a spirit of...

the men who are responsible for this kind of republicanism and this kind of freedom are in any practical or useful sense members of the British Empire. We cannot understand the...

strong protest against the " lying allegations " of the German -delegates in their apology for the Russian Treaty. That document, he said, violated the Cannes resolutions on...

of the devastated provinces, said that France had no Imperialist aims, but she must insist on the fulfilment of the Treaty of Versailles. The - German--Bolshevik Treaty exposed...

desired peace with the Russian people, "'whatever the character of their Government may be,"" but that the Bolshevik delegates with their Oriental methods of bargaining were...

at Genoa that the Conference was progressing favour- ably. He was confident that it would restore peace to Europe. The Russo-German Treaty would present no further difficulties,...

posals, first of all said that Russia ought to have all her debts remitted in consideration of the counterclaims grotesquely put forward on the ground that there would have been...

preached but did not practise, replied to M. Poineare on Tuesday through his secretary. The journalists at Genoa were told that the French Premier's speech was a very , serious...

its-beet to- eoesperate in education and Labour problems; and in other matters where common interests were concerned. Nevertheless, the Provisional Government had not shown "...

treaty with the Bolsheviks behind the backs of the other Powers. They professed to believe that -the Allies had drafted! a- treaty with the Bolsheviks which would dis- regard "...

a new proof of - her pacific spirit by keeping. her -delegates at Genoa, despite the conclusion of the German-Bolshevik' Treaty. Never- theless, if the delegates could not make...

for the South by adverse comments on the trade boycott. But -it was now necessary to state that in spite of all the promisee that the boycott should cease interference with the...

set up only in trades which were sweated and which were badly organized, and, secondly, that it should be possible to vary the minimum rates much more quickly than under the...

week's notice to the semi-skilled and unskilled men belonging to the forty-seven unions other than the Amalgamated Engin- eering Union, which includes the skilled men who were...

than this. We said that the manifesto was admirable as a moral survey. That is what it is. It is not sufficiently definite. What Lord Robert Cecil really wants is that the Will...

the Boards had put an end to sweating, but that some of them had done much to aggravate the depression of trade and to increase the number of the unemployed. While the Boards...

-should include international co-operation, the recognition that Labour must have in some practical sense a voice in its own destiny, the scientific treatment of unemployment,...

displayed their good sense in adjusting a dispute over wages by a reasonable compromise. They agreed on Tuesday that wages should be reduced by 4s. Id. in the pound, in two...

from • Lord Robert Cecil to the Chairman of the Hitcliin Unionist .Association, which was in effect a political manifesto. Lord _Robert Cecil begins_ by pointing out how many...

comment on the demand that is to be made by the trade unions for a Court of Inquiry, which will examine the causes of the dispute. The employers say that, if a court is set up,...

Apr. 13, 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 991'; Thursday week, 101 ; a year ago, 88-1.

THE USUAL UNNECESSARY CRISIS. O (INE of the saddest and most ironical facts about the - succession of crises in which Mr. Lloyd George has become involved is that they need not...

W ANTON expenditure and high taxation are inevitable partners. If you admit the one you are bound to admit the other. No divorce is possible so long as one of them exists. The...

presence in my hostess's library of a very beautiful folio edition combined the other day to make me read Locke's Essay on Education. I suppose we are most of us vaguely aware...

I T is with the greatest pleasure and satisfaction that we publish under the heading " Correspondence " a letter signed " Outis." It constitutes an admirable apology for the...

N MrER go too far ; that has been the Englishman's first commandment during the whole history of Modern England. Now, at last, he is beginning to doubt its authority. In keeping...

BUDGET UNCERTAINTIES. MEETING IN THE CITY—APPEAL BY LORD INCHCAPE —PROPOSED BANKING CONFERENCE—GOVERN- MENT'S CONVERSION SCHEME—RISE IN SECURI- TIES—THE OUTLOOK. [To THE...

"APOLOGIA PRO ANE11A. GRAECA." [TO THE EDITOR. OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sra,—There will probably be many reasons why you will not publish this letter, one at least being that long...

[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.] THE CONDITION OF IRELAND....

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOE."] SIR,—I beg to enclose a copy of a " Notice to Europeans," which was sent to me from Jubbulpore (Central Provinces) by a friend :- " Appeal...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—In your leading article on " The Situation As It Is," in your last issue, you state that the Jewish immigrants In Palestine " are...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In your issue of April 15th it is stated in a review of this book that our Consul-General at Constantinople, Sir Philip Francis, did...

[To TIE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—As a humble member of the modern school of yachtsmen, may I say how delighted I am at the prominence you have given to Mr. Cowper's...

" SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In your review of " Newmarket's " Chapters from Turf History do you not rather summarily dismiss the Derby wins of Lord Rcsebery? After more than thirty...

THE " SPECTATOR.") your article on above in last week's. Spectator Mr. Blatchford quotes M. Flamniarion as saying,," If we do not see with our brain with what do we see?" and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sts,—Your contributor, in his interesting article on Professor CuSrard's recent work dealing with this subject, seems to me to overlook a...

to belittle our brain as a mere "creamy mass of dust and water," but I ask which assumption is the more arbitrary—to infer that the power actually in office at the terminus of...

[To THE EDITOR or THS " SPECTATOR.") Ste, —In your issue of April 8th you were so good as to print an abstract of correspondence between the Prison Commis- sioners and the State...

[To THE EDITOR or THE SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Knowing how widely read your paper is in the East, I shall be interested to know whether any of your readers have seen or heard of a...

HAVARD THOMAS AND FARINGTON. Its the exhibition at the Leicester Galleries of the sculpture of the late Mr. Havard Thomas are to be seen some works of extraordinary perfection....

SOME PLAYS WORTH SEEING', Lyrae, HammEnsiirrrn.—Beggar's Opera (Revised Version) S.15-2.10 [" Is there aught else in London desirous ? "] COURT.-11 r intIOWS . . • • • ....

MUSIC WORTH HEARING. April 29th.—lismiun OF ARTS GUM:Ilk/USE, Eeclestan Square, S.W.—Lecture Recital on English Folk Song by Dr, R. Vaughan Williams s.o Ube great river of...

THE FARMER'S WIDOW. THE old farmer failed, and had to sell his land, But kept the house his life-time and his widow's. He died at last. The unmarried daughter came To stay at...

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 Poetry...

ANT subscriptions sent. to. us, great or small, will be acknow- !edged in our columns and at once sent on to the C.O.S. Cheques should be made out to." The Spectator" and...

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...

NATIONAL GALLERY ( Room XIV.). [- The Balbi Children,' by Van Dyck, lent by Lady Lucas, one of the best works - of the Genoese period. The composition in triangles is masterly...

COLONEL REPINGTON'S .-NEW DIARY. * Coeowni, 'LEXINGTON'S new diary, recording his travels and inquiries in various countries after the War, will not repeat the success of his...

Ma. BELLoc's book is interesting in a high degree. Though it is in intention a cool book, it will not be liked by a great many Jews. On the other hand, the more excitable and...

Stu Jonas STAMP'S Newmarch Lectures for 1920-21 deserve careful reading, for they deal with the principles on which estimates of national wealth and taxable capacity should be...

text, three of trans- lation, and one containing the Preface and Indices—form a great historical work, welcome to all interested in Islam and especially -valuable 'because it...

Ma. Essm WINGFIELD-S'rRATFORD has apparently only just dis- covered that, to borrow Carlyle's phrase, " Man is a sort of nauseous ape," and he is shocked. However, he has not...

IN the Edinburgh Review for April the editor, Mr. Harold Cox, writes on " The House of Lords," with special reference to the recommendations of the Conference over which the...

PROBABLY the majority of those who have given any thought at all to the subject if asked how the evolution of animal life from the lowest living . organism to man has been...

' Till MeBRIDES.* A TIME comes to every reviewer when he realizes the inadequacy of all his clichis ; not because the work under consideration is so unusual that none of them is...

Mordaunt writes with a powerful and masculine touch, which invests all her work with interest. Though there is something of mysticism, there is little of psychology in these...

(New York: Huebsch. 1 dollar 50 cents). —This little book gives an account of the well-known German industrialist and his numerous undertakings. Herr Stinnes, who is now...

tKoRec in this column does not necessarily preclude subsegund review.] The Manchester Guardian Commercial has published the first of a - series of - shilling supplements...

is to be congratulated on its Press. The Kenya Graphic (Nairobi : The Swift Press, 3 florins) is an elaborate and handsome pro- duction of over a hundred pages which would do...

net.)—This brilliant little essay on the history, life and thought of the old Greeks is precisely what many people need as an introduction to Greek studies. The brief notes on...

(Cassell. 7s. 6d. net.)—An ingenious series of episodes described by Lady Ann Spenworth, the Society woman to whom they occur. The way in which this lady is made to write...

Sir Hugh Fraser. (Sweet and Maxwell. 42s. net.)—This important treatise has been revised in its second edition so as to include the statutes passed since 1918. The author's...

and Co. 12s. 6d. net).—This is not a book after the manner of Dean Hole, whom one naturally associates with roses. Mr. Henslow does indeed give a brief chapter to " Poetry and...

con- taining the First Epistle to the Corinthians, of the scholarly recension of the Vulgate New Testament which the late Bishop Wordsworth began a 'generation ago (Clarendon...

Allen and Unwin, 3s. 6d. net), is one of the shortest and clearest of the many popular books upon modern psychology which have been published. The beginner would find this book,...

by Frank Finn (Is. 3d. net). This attractive serial publication is to be completed in about twenty fortnightly parts. The birds 'are, dealt with alphabetically, and there is a...

46 'Victoria Street, has issued its second Annual Report, summar- izing the good work done in 'the past year. The Society serves a most useful purpose and deserves to be'better...