tint the Sinn Feiners have been trying to invent a form of allegiance which would really be a "limited liability" allegiance. Perhaps they have suggested that they should have a...

91HE train of the Irish negotiations has run off the line along which it had been moving for many weeks. At the moment people are hopeful or despairing according as they are...

a word or moved a finger to prevent the disloyalists from wringing all the concessions they can in their own area from the British Government-. Sir James Craig went on to say...

after all, and the Government and their friends, with light consciences, have been trying to cajole or intimidate Ulster into acceptance. The loyal were to be sacrificed to the...

November 25th, insisted on the absolute necessity for the Sinn Feiners to pledge their allegiance to the Crown. He said that it was his particular desire to deal with this...

apparently proposed that North-East Ulster, though theoretically part of an All-Irish Dominion, should in practice be given the power to contract out of the Dominion. In Ulster...

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

violent riot at Bangalore last Saturday and attacked the Dorset Regiment when they were summoned to restore order. The troops had to fire a few shots, killing four rioters,...

necessary, there would be war. " But I would like to ask when that is attained—by what expenditure of blood and treasure I do not know—how much nearer we shall be to having a...

highly peaceful persuasion which is the first cousin to compulsion, though it professes to be no relation. 'He said that this quarrel did not affect only the inhabitants of...

a raid of Wazirs across the frontier near Quetta. A small detach- ment of Punjabis sent to intercept the raiders was overwhelmed by numbers last Saturday. The two British...

the misgivings of Lord Birkenhead and his friends, but they do not dispose of the misgivings of the loyalists in Ulster. The whole case of North-East Ulster is that a central...

past week, but the delegates have been actively negotiating in private. Japan and China have accepted the gcod offices of the British and American Governments in an attempt to...

" I should have thought that we have too often mado it clear what our view is about the position of Ulster and our commitments and obligations to Ulster to allow our friends to...

speech last Saturday at Tonbridge. He said that the response to the King's Speech at the opening of the Northern Irish Parliament made it plain to the Government for the first...

the Hampshire,' with Lord Kitchener on board, was intercepted by a ' boat off the Orkneys through the agency- of a German woman spy. This woman, named Elbie Boecier, has indeed...

suggested the holding of further conferences which might develop hereafter into " an association of nations." He hinted that the decisions of the present Conference might be...

self-possessed man in the court, and his calmness and self-confidence contri- buted to the legend about the powers of will and hypnotizing eye which he exercised during his...

took no trouble to supply the Expeditionary Force with shells in the spring of 1915, Mr. Asquith quotes a letter from Lord Kitchener, dated April 14th, 1915 :— " I have had a...

Yet it is worth recording that last week messages were sent from the Marconi station at Carnarvon to Australia and duly received. Thus wireless has spanned the world. The...

Myers, the distinguished scholar and poet, at the age of• seventy-seven. He did much for Greek studies by his lectures and by his versions of Pindar and, in collaboration with...

over the Fire Brigade, water supply, markets and street traffic, but to share with the boroughs the responsibilities for drainage, parks, housing, roads and some at least of the...

of his finest and most engaging traits, contributes a noteworthy " Appreciation of Kitchener " to the December issue of Pearson's Magazine, in reply to Lord . Esher and Lord...

his ninety-third year, was famous as• the leading spirit in the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Like Mr. Carnegie and many other successful Scotsmen, he worked his...

the fascinating letters of the late Mr. Walter Hines Page, who was American Ambassador here during the War. He saw clearly from the first—as in a letter of September 22nd,...

Peaceful nation " settled down to war as its one great piece of business now in hand, and by the grim efficiency " of the Secret Service which detected a spy in the Getman...

charged with having murdered at least ten women and disposed of their bodies by burning, has come to an end and he has been sentenced to death. To English minds a French trial...

for the future administration of Greater London, which Mr. R. C. Norman will advocate on behalf of the Council. before the Royal Commission on London Government. The scheme...

Nov. 3, 1921 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 881 ; Thursday week, 88 ; a year ago, 831.

speech, and sincerity of heart, joined to courage and high resolve, pitted against the arts of the ablest of politicians, have once more had the victory that is due to them....

excellent things. Indeed, it is not too much to say that if they did not exist they would have to be invented in order to increase the power and dignity of manual labour. They...

I T is not an agreeable task to write about our relations with France when the subject must necessarily be the continued misunderstandings. As wo have said before, patched-up...

I T would be necessary, we should think, to penetrate into some very remote district where political ideas do not circulate freely to discover a person who still believes that...

and the Directors of Convict Prisons " for the year ending March 31st last contains some very surprising information. In the first place, crime has decreased enormously since...

OUR GERMAN VISITORS. REPARATION PROBLEMS — SOME EXAGGERATED RUMOURS — THE PROBABLE FACTS — VANDERLIP'S PROPOSALS—THE STRENGTH OF INVESTMENT STOCK. (To THE EDITOR OF THE "...

" SPECTATOR."] SIR.—Now the French talk of abandoning Cilicia the horror of my last visit to Mersina, the Port of Adana—but half an hour away by train--comes back to me. Each...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Your article, which you describe as " communicated," upon the increase of the Episcopate will, I think, excite a widely spread...

[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 REPORT OF THE PRISON...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In your " Topics of the Day " of November 19th issue I think you have done Peace for Ireland an incalculable injury by your venomous...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Mr. C. Eason, in your issue of November 26th, questions the accuracy of a statement in my letter which appeared in the Spectator of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Unfortunately, I was " in another place " on Novem- ber 18th and missed your article under the above title, but I have read with great...

important paper on " The Increase of the Episcopate " in the Spectator of November 26th, may I call the attention of your readers to a valuable lecture given in 1918 at King's...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—As this is the time when so many English people are proceeding to the South of France, perhaps my experience a few days ago may be of...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR, — The Heritage Craft Schools for Cripples, at Chailey, is Sussex, are urgently appealing for the sum of £20,000. There is no appeal...

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" UNCLE VANYA." BY ANTON CHEKOV. THE INCORPORATED STAGE SOCIETY. I was very much interested to notice at the Stage Society's performance of Uncle Vanya the obvious hostility to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTITOR."] Sts.—For the second time within a few months you quote " Southey's poem ":— " I am a blessed Glendoveer, "l'is mine to speak and Sours to...

ViTuEnE the black woods grow sparse and die, A giant broods against the sky. The storm his ehlamys, and his head Bent to the spirits of the dead. The windhover, floating like...

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...

AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE IN LONDON. LAST week Lady Astor opened a notable exhibition of America n architecture at the Galleries of the Royal Institute of British Architects in...

‘Vreer Sir Sidney Lee called the charpentage of the playwright fails to make a convincing play of All's Well That Ends Well. It is rarely performed and this is the first time...

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THE first Marquess of Ripon, who died in 1909 within a few weeks of completing his eighty-second year, saw the Whig Party transform itself into the modem Liberal Party, and...

of trees adds to the health as well as to the beauty of a city. The only question is What trees ? It is curious how inadequately this subject has been studied even by some of...

and as the editor of a collection of plays in nine volumes, The Modern Theatre in twenty-five volumes, and a collection of Farces and After-Pieces in seven volumes, all of...

MEsass. BEsur BROTHERS have begun to publish for the Geo- graphical Association a series of historico-geographical mono- graphs, edited by Professor H. J. Fleure. The series...

A HIGHLY interesting account of the use of poison-gas in the War has been written by Major Lefebure, who served with a gas- unit on the British front and then acted a s liaison...

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6d. net).—This is a new volume in the useful series of " University of London Intermediate Source-Books," which owes its existence to the initiative of Professor Pollard....

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