on without ceasing. The majority of the persons murdered were Protestants. Last Saturday two British soldiers who were walking in College Green, Dublin, were attacked from...

submitted to the Provisional Parliament in Dublin and then sent to Westminster for ratification. " Not until we have passed another Act of Parliament con- firming the...

make only an interim statement. He could not do more as the details of the draft Irish Constitution were still confidential. He said that the evidence was overwhelming that the...

that the Government would in future hold the Southern leaders " to strict accountability," in President Wilson's phrase, for the destruction of private property and for the loss...

T HEprrspect in Ireland, which was dark enough already, has become black. The Government recognize that the agreement• between Mr. Collins and Mr. De Valera, unless it turns out...

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

lunch by his supporters, under the presidency of Lord Long. In thanking them he said that the work at Genoa was not completed but it had been begun, and the true part of a task...

conferences attended by the Prime Minister were a mistake. He contrasted Lord Balfour's success at Washington and Lord Curzon's good work at the Near Eastern Conference in Paris...

striven to make some arrangement with Russia, for her sake and for the sake of the world. The difficulty was to restore confidence in Russia as a basis of credit. He declared...

down to earth and discuss the question in a practical si kit at The Hague. Meanwhile, he had secured a truce for the thirty-five nations, to which he attached great importance....

May 25th, made his statement on the results of the Genoa Conference. Delegates of thirty-five nations had met in perfect harmony to discuss the restoration of normal conditions...

has been made public. Italy is to give the Bolsheviks a free port at Trieste and to receive similar facilities in the Black Sea ports. Further, Italy is to receive a concession...

that the German Note to the Reparation Commission, which we discuss elsewhere, had relieved the situation. It may be noted also that the reactionaries in the Reichstag, who on...

results of the much-advertised Conference were ".depressingly and .even distressingly meagre." Thirty-five nations had dis- cussed the Russian problem for five weeks, and had...

critics. He ridiculed Lord Robert Cecil's suggestion that there had been too much secrecy at Genoa. Private conversations were essential if any business was to be done. He...

the exclusion of.the reparation issue from the Genoa debates was fatal. We should make every effort to induce America to take part in an economic conference. If we were not...

of Members in the House of Commons on Friday, May 26th. It proposed the establishment of a Scottish Parliament with one Chamber, in which would sit two Members elected by each...

means of educating people out of the abominable habit of throwing unsightly rubbish about the countryside. This is a subject in which the Spectator has interested itself for...

in some news- papers, the back of the Russian Famine is broken. Unfor- tunately, it is far from true. It is difficult to obtain statistics of the full number being fed by the...

ignorance. People with a very small amount of education naturally have no cultivated taste, and it simply does not occur to them that paper and empty tins and bottles spoil...

in the engineering trades have not yet announced the result of the ballot on the employers' revised terms. It is, however, confidently believed that the terms will be accepted....

House of Commons on Tuesday by 163 votes to 21. Colonel Wedgwood, who opposed it on behalf of the Labour Party, complained that " the workers " only benefited by the reduction...

of Fareham, Mrs. Waldo Richards gave a reading of modern American poetry for the benefit of the Furnishing Fund of the Roosevelt Memorial Association. Particularly interesting...

who won his appeal in the House of Lords last week against the Glasgow Corporation, deserves to be recorded. Mr. Percy two years ago tendered a penny for his fare to a Glasgow...

the proper disposal of rubbish is actually being given to children. That is excellent. But we should like to go further still. In Paris to throw litter about the streets or...

Apr. 13,. 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 99! ; Thursday week, 991; a year ago, SS.

IRELAND WORSE AND WORSE. N OTHING which has since happened causes us to revise our judgment of last week that Mr. Michael Collins has sacrificed the Treaty to Mr. De Valera. At...

[COMMUNICATED.] T HERE are some people in the North of Ireland who believe that Mr. Lloyd George and his Cabinet— or some of them—foresaw what would be the present state of the...

the Reparation Commission has cleared the air and changed the whole aspect of European politics. While public attention has been fixed on the Prime Minister's inconclusive...

O N Monday Horatio Bottomley was convicted of what the judge called " a long series of heartless frauds," and was sentenced to seven years' penal servi- tude. Owing to the...

of Lords on May 17th Lord Sudeley gave an interesting account of that very remarkable organization for " official " lectures in museums and galleries of which he is the moving...

W ITH the best will in the world towards spring announcements about early birds and butterflies, some of us cannot be reconciled to the statement in print, year after year—it...

MARKETS FACTORS. CONFLICTING INFLUENCES--MONETARY CONDITIONS FAVOURABLE—BETTER NEWS FROM FRANCE- . REPARATION LOAN RUMOURS—IRELAND THE DARK SPOT—OUR DEBT TO AMERICA. (To rzi...

to congratulate you on the stand you have recently taken in reference to the embargo question. By removing the embargo it simply means that we are now right- ing an ancient...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fia treble the space.] THE EMBARGO ON CANADIAN...

" SPECTETOR."] Sue—Surely there is a very exaggerated expectation of the benefits to be derived from this measure? As lord of half a dozen manors and owner, by purchase, of land...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Ste,—May we, through the medium of the Spectator, inform the writer of " Rural Amenities " and others of your readers that the Women's...

[To TALL EDITOR Or THE " SPOCTATOR."] Sia,—In your issue of April 15th you were good enough to publish a letter from me, giving a list of a number of things required for the...

[To THE Enrroa or zwe " Sencrixoa."] SIR,—Is it not time that a greater exactness in the use of terms should be required from those who deal in such subjects as faith-healing,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIRS It was a real pleasure to read the letters and articles in the Spectator about the splendid work of the C.O.S. I have been a Church...

[To THE EDITOR Or TRZ " SPECTATOR."] SIE,—IS not our perplexity about Ireland due to the fact that we have forgotten that the idea for which England stands is the right of the...

[To TIM EDITOZ or THE " SPEMATOR."] Sia, — In the Letters of Henry James there is a letter to his brother, written in 1886, on the Irish question, which may interest your...

SUMMER TRYST. WHEN the long day from quiet dawn Has come to quietness again, And eve, advancing through the trees, Stretches long fingers o'er the lane, Then from the farm,...

SPECTATOR.") Sra,—I have often been struck, when moving among the people who throng the London parks on the occasion of public holidays, by the words and expressions which I...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sts,—As a supplement to your correspondent's very interesting letter on " Ravens" in East Anglia in your issue of May 20th, may I be allowed...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Ste,—Referring to the interesting letter in the Spectator of May 27th regarding Mrs. Grundy, surely Speed the Plough was written by Thomas...

SPECTATOR."] Sut, — Readers of the Spectator who are interested in the reli- gious conditions of the Continent, and in particular of France, may be glad to know of the recently...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Set,—The following quotation from a letter which I bad from a friend in New Zealand, dated April 24th, 1919, may interest readers of your...

ANY subscriptions sent to us, great or small, will be aclmows lodged in our columns and at once sent on to the C.O.S. Cheques should be made out to " The Spectator " and crossed...

" AMPHITRYON ; OR, THE TWO SOMAS," BY DRYDEN : THE PHOENIX SOCIETY. THE Phoenix Society have been blamed for choosing Amphitryon. for their twelfth production. They have been...

FIFTY YEARS A JOURNALIST.* MR. STONE'S book is from many points of view attractive. By its nature, however, it is likely to prove of more interest to American than to English...

writer's 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...

INDEPENDENT GALLERY, 17A GRAFTON STREET. [Paintings and drawings by Vanessa Bell that would look better if there were not water-colours by Othon Priem in the next room.] ALPINE...

lettere 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...

June 6th.—WromortE HALL. — Mr. Pecskai. Violin Recital .. .. 3.15 [Mr. P6cskal should need no introduction to Londoners : he is all that we ask a violinist to be.] June 7th....

LrrrLE.—Grand Guignol (Eighth Series) .. • • [Notice later.] ST. MARTIN'S.—Shall We Join the Ladies ? and Loyalties .. [Melodramatic to the fastidious, significant to the...

to know the Ex-German Crown Prince inti- mately—which the writer of this review does not profess to do— to be able to say with what degree of sincerity these Memoirs have been...

Ix England there has been no great wave of popularity for Palestrina that will account for the appearance of Miss Pyne's full yet concise biography of the Roman Master. At this...

" AGRICULTURE," says the Japanese proverb, " is the basis of a nation." More than half the population of Japan is still dependent on the land. It is thus particularly...

Depew has been one of the most popular speakers in America and one of the most influential members of the Republican Party. His recollections of a long and busy life are as good...

biography hitherto has approached her from some special aspect as literary pioneer and feminist in America or as a somewhat serpentine wise-woman. "No one," says Miss Anthony,...

Ma. CHANCE has solved one problem and created another. He was attracted, years ago, by the mystery of tho cuckoo. How did she lay her eggs ? How many did she lay ? How did she...

PRINCE WILLIAM OF SWEDEN has written an interesting little book, under the title of Between Two Continents (Eveleigh Nash and Grayson, 15s. net), on a journey that he made to...

• The Beginnings of Christianity. Part I.—" The Acts of the Apostles." Edited by F. J. Foakes Jackson, D.D., and Kirsopp Lane, D.D. Volume IL- Proleaomena U.: Criticism."...

THE Round Table for June contains, as usual, some able articles, well informed but anonymous, on the leading political questions of the day, together with letters from America...

THE Nineteenth Century gives first place to an article on " The Cabinet Secretariat," by Sir Henry Craik, who maintains that this new organization, with 116 officials costing...

MR. ARNOLD BENNETT'S NEW NOVEL* Ma. PBORACK, the middle-aged hero of Mr. Arnold Bennett's new book, is a Treasury official, obscure to the outside world, but known within the...

MR. HUGHES'S " GIPSY NIGHT." Qurre a• large proportion of the poems in Mr. Hughes's first volume have already appeared in the columns of the Spectator, notably, the title poem,...

Blake. (Macmillan. Os. net.)—The success of this English version of M. Hemon's charming and sincere picture of French Canadian life would appear to be a complete vindication of...

London Press. Is. 6d. net.)—The Provost of University College has published the two instructive lectures which he gave last February, together with a speech made by . Mr. H. A....

Magazine, is again being published in London as it was before the War. The June number contains, among many other excellent articles, a notable account by Mr. C. L. Freeston of...

Boon. 5s. net.)—Everyone will remember Mr. Sieveking's two entertaining volumes of humorous verse. The old soldier of Dover Fort who mopped up the Channel, the charwoman who...

[Irolies in this column does not nu-rms.-ill/ preclude subsequent mow) The Eton Candle. Vol. L Edited by Brian Howard. (Savile Press, Eton. 2s. 6d.)—We feel unaccountably...

Caullery. Translated by James H. Woods and Emmet Russell. (Harvard University Press and H. Milford. 10s. 6d. net.)—Professor Caullery, of the Sorbonne, temporarily exchanged his...

and George L. Kittredge. (Harrap. 15s. net.)— This selection of ballads from Professor Child's great work will be welcomed by the general reader. With few exceptions, one or...

(Glasgow : Maclehose, Jackson. 21s. net.)—The late Dr. Cameron Lees, who died in 1913 at the age of seventy-nine, was minister of St. Giles's, Edinburgh, Dean of the Order of...

G. Starling. (Longmans. 10s. 6d. net.)—This well-written little book is designed to give ordinary readers, who did not study electricity at school or college, a general view of...

(C. W. Daniel. 3s. 6d. net.)—The Prophet A Play in Six Scenes. By Frank G. Layton. (Same publisher and price.)— Mr. Houghton's rather turbid tragedy calls to mind the village...

Women, ' at 6, Baker Street, W. 1, deserves to be widely read. This modest society, with branches throughout the kingdom and 'agents abroad, does a vast amount of good work in...