telling us exactly and in unmistakable terms upon which side he is going to be in the future. The country is tired of first a rush to the left, accompanied by a whisper to the...

of Commons on Wednesday against the intellectual dishonesty, to give it no harder name, involved in a Conservative and Centre Party led by a man of advanced Liberal views such...

the Government had boxed the compass of half a dozen questions. No one had the slightest idea where Mr. Lloyd George would be in regard to Ireland, Russia, India, Egypt or any...

personal feeliiig that were engendered and get down into the essential fact, we shall find it to be this : The majority of the Unionist. Party, though somewhat bewildered, as is...

as we believe, a thoroughly sound plea for resignation, rather than sticking to office, by Ministers when they were no longer able to support principles which they had supported...

had declared that he would never desert Mr. Micawber,- Mr. Gideon Murray very appropriately complained that the reply of the Leader of the House had been a bitter attack on...

T HE vote of want of confidence in the Coalition Government, moved on Wednesday night by Sir William Joynsen- Hicks, led to a brisk debate. His essential point was that Mr....

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movement was not a revolt but a rally. We find very strongly to our taste the following declaration by Lord Salisbury :- " You must take your courage in both hands. It is no...

that he was going to Genoa on the-strict understanding that the Conference should not discuss the. revision, "whether direct or disguised," of the Treaty of ' Versailles. The...

move that the. House approved of the Cannes-resolutions as the basis of the Genoa Conference and would support the Govern- ment in trying to give effect to them. It was,- he...

fullest possible personal sympathy. 'Incidentally, it says exactly what we feel about the Morning Post. It proves that on Lord Salisbury have descended those qualities of...

Privileges to reconsider its decision in favour of Lady Rhondda, who claimed a writ of summons. The Lord Chancellor main- tained that the true effect of the Sex Disqualification...

on Friday, March 31st,. and received the Royal assent. Mr. Churchill paid a well-deserved tribute to " the statesmanlike courage and earnest good will" that had been displayed...

of exile. He was only thirty-four. It was apparent, when he succeeded his great-uncle, the Emperor Francis Joseph, in November, 1916, that he was wholly unequal to the task of...

for Northern Ireland and Mr. Griffith and Mr. Collins for the Free State ended in an agreement on Thursday, March 30th. The two Irish Governments undertook " to co-operate in...

illus- strated -by further outrages. Early oa Thursday, March 30th, a Republican gang seized the Freeman's Journal office in Dublin, smashed the machines and set fire to the...

destruc- tion of value. It is an element which tends ultimately to kill demand. Though limitation of supply cannot create value it can and does create high prices. To create...

recognize the Bolsheviks by referring to Pitt's overtures to the Directory in 1796-97 and quoting speeches in which Pitt argued that, violent and odious" as was the French...

obligations, though she could not pay at once, and must restore the property of Allied subjects or compensate them. She must set up impartial tribunals. She must cease to attack...

his appointment as Lord Chief Justice, was won by the Labour Party in the by-election on Thursday, March 30th. Alderman G. H. Banton, the Labour candidate, headed the poll with...

could not do a better piece of work. If the world is to get through the present crisis satisfactorily it can only be by a proper understanding of economic laws and conditions....

amend- ment declaring that the Genoa Conference was too restricted to be helpful and that the Government had ceased to command confidence. The Peace Treaty must be revised. The...

hundred American business men, financiers, and economic experts have formed a society, called the " National Economic Association," for the purpose of educating Americans to a...

moved and that anyone should object to it. It was foolish to talk of the Prime Minister as going to Genoa to make political capital, for he was in fact " setting out on a dark...

. various engineering trades unions and put before them a new formula devised by Sir Allan Smith and Mr. Henderson. The Amalgamated Engineering Union rejected it, but the other...

Feb. 16, 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 99i; Thursday week, 981 ; a year ago, 87.

on Monday, as we show in the article which precedes this, have brought home the fact that Mr. Lloyd George's politiml untrustworthiness and instability are destroying his hold...

THE PREMIER AND THE UNIONIST PARTY. y _L B. LLOYD GEORGE'S speech and the subsequent. divisions with their tremendous majorities appar- ently in his favour could not even...

O NCE again Sir James Craig has placed not only Ireland, North and South, but also Great Britain and the Empire as a whole under a deep obligation. After the cynical and, in...

W E cannot deal with the subject of Ireland without noting what can best be described as the Nemesis of crime. Look at the difficulties with which the Pro- visional Government...

S MALL fears are in the air just now. When- great earthquakes take place the dust is perceptible many thousands of miles away. There is so much real terror just now in the world...

GENOA AND OTHER INFLUENCES. THE ONLY PRACTICAL COURSE—A CZECHO-SLOVAKIAN LOAN—THE PAST YEAR'S " SURPLUS "—BUDGET PROSPECTS—RISE IN DIVESTMENTS. [To THE EDITOR or THE "...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are of ten more read, and therefore more effective, - than those which fill treble the space.] TEM CHARITY ORGANIZATION...

ran " SPECTLT011."] Sie,—Lord Lytton having been obliged to resign the Chairman- ship of the State Children's Association owing to his appoint- ment as Governor of Bengal, may...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] never disagree with you without diffidence and mis- givings, and only the strongest conviction leads me to question your verdict on the...

THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As a humble but devout student of Elizabethan history I note your reviewer's facile acceptance of the time-honoured legend about Queen Elizabeth and the...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Ste,—Your keen-visioned insight with regard to type and character of Ulstermen proved that your voyage of discovery to the province was...

of Miss Violet Wilson's Queen Elizabeth's Maids of Honour you quote a story relating to Francis Bacon, and raise the question of its source. I find the anecdote in Francis...

Pro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—On March 22nd, Mr. Winston Churchill summarized for the information of the House of Commons a telegram from the Southern Irish...

[To THE EDITOR OE THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As an old reader and admirer of your journal, as was my father before me, perhaps you will be so good as to insert a few lines to...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR!) Sns,—I have read with interest the letter under the above title appearing in your columns of March 18th date. My answer is no; and loyalty...

THE " SPECTATOR."] SIE,—As your Poetry Editor I often receive interesting and curious letters from poets. Here is an extract from one which has just come from India, and which...

[To !ME EDITOR or rag " SPECTATOR.") - Sin,—At the present time dead plover may be seen strung up for sale in the ponitarers' shops, while plovers' eggs are also to be had. In...

CART TRACKS. I HAVE followed cart tracks so much, and I know how; They hold the spring's return in their long channels now; I know, here in town, where the slow sunlight...

[To rat EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—May I remind your readers through the hospitality of your columns that the annual memorial service to the 29th Division, Gallipoli,...

[To THE EDITOR. or rat " SPECTATOS."1 Sine-What you justly call (in your article on the Universities' Commission) the " immortal " rebuke administered to the snobbish mother of...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—In The Life and Work of Edwin Austin. Abbey there is an erroneous reference to Mr. Ernest Parton, R.I., the artist, as " the late." For...

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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 of...

SHAKESPEARE'S " KING LEAR " AT THE " OLD VIC." IF managers had what is called in journalism a " sense of news," if they had an instinctive knowledge, that is, of what the public...

IDE FILM THEODORA "). THAT there was no dramatic scene over the performance of M. Stravinaki's " Ragtime " on the first night of M. Maseine's ballet season was possibly a...

[Recent addition. The first Lucas van IRyden at the Gallery admirable portrait.] aR TATE GALLERY. LA memorable exhibition of the work of John Sell Cotroaol Balms Muszum...

COMEDY.—Other People's Worries • • . . [Some playgoers will be drawn to the Comedy Theatre solely by Miss Athena Seyler's name. They will be rewarded for their discrimination...

THE UNCOLLF.CTED POETRY AND PROSE OF WALT WHITMAN.* This is the kind of book which is sure to be sneered at, or, at any rate, greeted with the super-conventional remark that...

the fact that for those who have studied the methods of the Nancy School for some time the present wave of fashion towards the doctrines and practices of M. Collo acts as a...

main contention of Mr. Granville- Barker's book or we may disagree with it ; we may be in favour of the establishment of the " Exemplary Theatre," complete with two playhouses,...

THIS is a very excellent and suggestive outline of the history of the Mediaeval Church from Gregory the Great till the suppression of the Templars. Those whose impression of the...

Some of the great problems that perplex the thoughtful in every age are discussed in a simple and attractive fashion in Mr. Horace Hutchinson's new book. The professional...

Farington's diary in the Morning Post has spread the revival of interest in him which Walker's Quarterly initiated by its issue of October, 1921. Up to that time our only...

THE HIGHBROWS.* TEMPEBANNNTAL jockeys, when riding their horses for a " place" only in a Selling Plate, have sometimes been so intoxicated by their own simulated eagerness as...

TWO AMERICAN POETS.* Smoke and Stall contains some interesting poems—" Losers," for instance, the " Sins of Kalamazoo " and " Telegram." Though there is a great deal that can...

Lock and Co. 7s. net.)—Although in her new novel Katharine Tynan gives her heroine two distinctly exciting adventures, the world is seen in this book through her usual...

THE Nineteenth Century gives first place in a highly interesting number to a candid article by Captain Walter Elliot on " 1922: Problems and .Politicians." " At this moment, to...

musicians.. In an extremely well-informed article Mr. Herbert Howells vivisects the Pastoral Symphony of Dr. Vaughan Williams. A month or two ago this Symphony was heard at the...

By Trowbridge Hall (Macmillan. 26s. net).—This charming book, which is illustrated with many excellent photographs, gives a popular account of the old Spanish missions, whose...

Wave in the column does mai necessarily preclude sutsequent male] The Cambridge University Press has just published in various forms the new edition of the Book of Common...

John F. Boyle (Dublin : Talbot Press ; and T. Fisher Unwin. 2s. Cd. net).—This amusing little book contains the /rig independent's descriptive reports of the long debates in...

1922, edited by W. H. Dawson (G. Bell, for the Universities Bureau, 7s. 6d. net), is a very useful work which is steadily improving with each new edition. It is arranged...

Cornish. 4s. 6d.)—The word stagery is new to us, but it is undeniably useful, and if Mr. Crompton Rhodes has coined it he is, we think, justified, for in any discussion of what...

Boyhood. (Privately printed for the author, Blundellsands, Liverpool. 21s. net.)—Mr. Reade is a patient and resolute investigator, who has with infinite pains added to our...