The School Teachers' (Superannuation) Bill, which requires elementary teachers to pay a shilling in the pound on their salaries towards the cost of their pensions, was read a...

The Government's policy in Palestine was made clear in a I White Paper issued last Saturday by the Colonial Office. Mr. Churchill repudiated the suggestion that Palestine was...

Sir W. Joynson Hicks, in thle House of Commons on1 Tuesday, raised the question of the Palestine Mandato and the minor question of the concession for a hydro-electric power...

|We have written elsewhere on the question of Palestine. Here we would only say that Mr. Churchill's Parliamentary success has changed nothing, either in Palestine or at home....

I In the East Nottingham by-election on Juno 29th, occasioned by the death of Sir J. D. Rees, the Coalition Unionist, 'Mr. J. 1). Houfton, had an easy victory. Ho polled 10,404...

I Now that the Abbey has been saved for posterity, it is the turn of St. Paul's to appeal for help. The Dean and Chapter are asking the public to subscribe £100,000 within the...

The Hague Conference shows no sign of yielding any tangible result. Last week Litvinoff informed the Conference that the Bolsheviks required within the next three years credits...

When the debate on Sir J. B. Robinson's peerage was resumed I in the House of Lords on Thursday, June 29th, Sir J. B. Robinson himself had saved the Government much anxiety by...

I The Criminal Law Amendment Bill, wvhich has been taken up by the Government this year, was read a second time in the House of Commons on Wednesday. The most contentious...

Mr. Churchill pointed out that Sir Henry McMahon's letter I to the Sherif of Mecca, in October, 1915, promising independence' to the Arabs, did not apply to the vilayet of...

If Mr. De Valera has not been killed we may expect him to I appear outside Dublin, perhaps with -Mr. Austin Stack and Mir. Erskine Childers. There are already reports of...

I Again, we must have pardoned Sir James if the murder of one of his closest friends had made it impossible for him to speak as he did. Yet, with a magnanimity to which history...

Tuesday's papers contain a very remarkable interview which[ Sir James Craig gave to the Press in Belfast on Monday. He was interested-this, it is obvious from the context, was...

Sir James Craig went on to insist, and we are sure with truth, that the North holds no bitterness against the South and would welcome its progress and prosperity. Rivalry in...

I The murder of Dr. Rathenau has had the effect of arousing German public opinion in support of the Republic. The Government, hitherto timid in their handling of the...

The Ulster Association has announced that there is good authority for stating that the fate of the three young British officers and a private of the Army Service Corps who were...

In the House of Lords, on MNonday, Lord Carson and others I recited an appalling list of murders and outrages against the Loyalists in Ireland, and invited the Government to...

Sir James ended his statement by a moving appeal to the Orangemen in regard to the celebrations of July 12th-an appeal which, we are confident, will not only be listened to,...

Lord Crawford said that the Government had found it almost I impossible to obtain information during the past few days. The Provisional Government thought they knew the...

On Wednesday better progress was made, and one by one the I strongholds in Sackville Street were reduced. After the Creshani and Hanmmam Hotels had been captured the Free State...

POEMS WORTY OF CONSIDERATION. -St. Hilda's HaU Verse. (Privately printed at the Curwen Press, Plaistow, and to be obtained from Messrs. Chaundy and Cox, 40 Maddox Street, W....

MIoon-calf. By Floyd Pell. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.)-The I non-heroic hero has become as much a clicht! as the man with the "broad, open brow and fearless eyes." But it is only the...

OTHER 0NoVELs.-Talbe of Chinatown. By Sax Rohmer. I (Cassell. 7s. 6d. net.)-Another collection of the author's alarming sketches of the Chinese quarter in Limehouse. On the...

POETS AND POETRY. MR. THOMAS HARDY AS A POET.* M-IkY poets write " above their form," that is to say that the actual setting down in words is a process of addition, not of...

THlE JULY MAGAZINES. THE Nineteenth Century gives prominence to Mirs. Stan Harding's statemient of her case against the Bolsheviks, which in other times would surely have been...

A RUSSIAN ADVENTURE STORY.* IVIHETHER or not the reader is interested to discover a political bias in the mind of this author, he must admire the clear way in which the story...

POETRY. PROSE POEMS. THREE EPIGR-AMIS. He regrets that his first memory of her is lost. I HAVE a great sorrow in my heart to-night. For, when I thought of you, I said, ". . ....

MARCH CUTCKOOS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECrATOR."] SiR,-Your correspondent " D.," writing on "Short-Eared Owls," says very confidently that tlh? cuckoo never reaches England...

THE CUCKOO'S SECRET. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,-I have a loft above loose boxes, next to which is a garage, necessarily a place of noise and traffic. The loft is...

THE TMEANING OF "-MOOR." [To Tmg EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATIO."] Sll,-If the syllable " moor " may be cognate with "mere," J as suggested by a correspondent in your issue of June...

THE BOYS' BRIGADE SUMMER CAMPS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] SIR,-NOW that the Boys' Brigade is arranging its summer camps, we should like the opportunity of drawing...

MR. GALSWORTHY AND LEGAL ETIQUETTE. I [To TuE EDITOR o0 THE "SPECTATOR."] SiR,-Having recently seen Mr. Galsworthy's new play, Loyal. ties-far and away the finest play produced...

THE CORNISH TIN MAlINERS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,-Knowing the success with which you have enlisted public sympathy with many specially deserving schlenmes I...

TIHE SHELLEY CENTENARY. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Into my copy of Shelley's Works on August 4th, 1892, the centenary of the poet's birth, I inserted a newspaper...

On Monday the situation was that Mr. De Valera with some five hundred followers still had possession of the barricaded hotels F in Sackvillc Street, but he and his men were...

I Among the prisoners, it is said, were lMfaud Gomme and Mr. McBride, son of the late Major McBride. Some time before the surrender there was a tremendous explosion, the result...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. HE resistance of the Republicans in Dublin has been TI broken during the week. Mr. Collins having decided to act, has certainly acted with energy and skill....

The Republicans busily cut wires and by the evening of Thursday, June 29th, Dublin was isolated from the South and West so far as telegraphic communication w as concerned....

The real warf are of irregulars is of the guerrilla kind, and guerrilla tactics are necessarily at a great disadvantage in limited spaces and in streets and houses. Guerrillas...

Last Saturday and Sunday the Free State troops concentrated their attention upon the hotels which had been turned into rebel strongholds. Moran's Hotel in Talbot Street was one...

I At the end of two days' bombardment of the Four Courts- the attack had begun at dawn on Wednesday, June 28th--M\r. Rory O'Connor was still in possession. The fall of the...

THE FINAL CHDICE. T HERE is something very alarming about finality. L We of this modern world are particularly susceptible to its terrors, and are a good deal more afraid of it...

I The Story of the Canadian Revision of the Prayer Book. By W. J. I Armitage. (Cambridge University Press. 9s. not.)-Thc Church of England in Canada has revised its Prayer...

Under the Black Ensign. By Captain R. S. Gwatkin-Williams. I (Hutchinson. 16s. net.)-The author early in the War coinmanded the Irish mail-steamer 'Hibernia,' rechristened as...

W ec have received the thirty-third Annual Report of the Croydon Libraries Committee, which shows how much good can bo done with very inadequate means by a librarian like .Mr....

I Tho Oxford League for Hungarian Self-Determination sends the first number of the Oxford Hungarian 1?etieo, a scholarly and interesting journal edited by Mr. R. Denne...

I The Leagme to Enforce Public Economv, at 31 Essex Street. has issued a useful popular version of the Geddes Reports in a sixpenny pamnphllet entitled Excessite Expenzditurc...

The Indo-British Association, at 6 Broad Street Place, has I z issucid a shilling pamphlet, The C'runzbluieg of an Empire, in ( vv 1hi;ch the course of events from September,...

In connexion with the centenary of Shelley's death on July 8th, I 1822, we may draw attention to an important article begun by Mr. Edward Liveing, in the current Discovery, on...

I We have received for review Art in America and Elsewhsre. a bimonthly illustrated magazine, which can be obtained from the English agents, Messrs. Bromhead, Cutts and Co.,...

The National Trust in its 1?eport for 1921-22 is able, as usual, to record the acquisition of more " places of historic interest or natural beauty." These include the ; Happy...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. [Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude fUbsequent rcview.] = A Little Book on Water Supply. By William Garnett. (Cam- I bridge...

FINANCE-PUBLIC AND PRIVATE. THE NATIONAL ACCOUNTS. ENCOURAGING REVENUE FIGURES-REDUCED EXPENDITURE-" AN URGENT ISSUE "-THIEI SLUMP IN THE MARK-BANK RATE PROSPECTS. [TO THE...

TIHE DEAD MEAT PLAGUE. [TO THE EDITOR CF TIME SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Mlay I as!k your consideration for the figures ad%-.v flced at the Guildhall meeting oln the 14th ilt. by Mr....

JOHN WESLEY ON IRELAND. [To T3K& EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."I SIR,-In July, 1.65, the founder of the Wesleyan Church was in Ireland. In the fourth volume of his Journal, p....

AN ULSTER BOY'S PRAYER FOR HIS MURDERERS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sirz,-Will you not pul)lic1 the enclosed account-cut from the Belfast Telegr aph, June 22nd-of a...

(TO THE: EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. '] SIR,-When the recruiting campaign was at its height I wa. asked to meet a member of the joint party organization and found him a very...

THE SALE OF HIONOURS. [TO THE EDITOR OF TER " SPECTATOR."] SiR,-" More power to his elbow " was the unanimous feeling when the Duke of Northumberland, in a few words, asked...

CLAVERHOUSE AND THE cOVENANTERS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Sir Evelyn Grant Duff contributes an article to your issue of May 27th containing a eulogy of John...

B1ITIS11 FLA S. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-The fact that the writer of this letter is in full accord with the sympatlhetic attitude of your reviewer towards Mr....

THE PROTECTION OF OIR NATIVE BIRDS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-In 1919, 1920 and 1921 our Society-the " Plumage Bill Group "-made a special appeal to the...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. [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.]...

A PATROL IN CENTRAL ASIA.* CAPTATN BLACKER, of that famous Indian co ps the Guides, has written a spirited account of his adventures in Central Asia with a mere handful of...

BISHOP BARLOW AND ANGLICAN ORDERS.* Mo-ism-GNOR BAIN-ES'S study of a much-discussed incident of English Church history is, naturallv, of a controversial nature. It may be taken...

BAD SENSE AND GOOD ACTION. rHE recent Conference of the Labour Partv at 1 Edinburgh was, if we may put it so, more characteristie than ever. There were a great many wild and...

A STUDY IN INEPTITUDE. THE Government have often a very good case from T their own point of view. That is, when faced, as they have been, with great difficulties and with the...

The Peoples of Europe. By Herbert John Fleure. (Oxford I University Press. 2s. 6d. net.)-Professor Fleure, always a stimulating writer, has compressed into about a hundred...

Labour Defended Against the Claims of Capital. By Thomas I Hodgskin. 'With an Introduction by G. D. H. Cole. (Labour| Publishing Co. Is. 6d. net.)-Hodgskin, who died in 1869...

THE DELICATE PROBLEMS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN. THERE is no more fruitful field for the blunders of T a blundering Government than the shores of the Mediterranean. We have written...

MR. GEORGE TREVELYAN'S HISTORY.* [CONCLUDING NOTICE.] I BEGAtN my first notice of this attractive book with a grumble, and here I should like to add another, though I quite...

SOME THINGS THAT IATTER.* IT is, perhaps, insufficiently recognized by a world inclined to boredom that platitudes are in themselves excellent things. A strong case might be...

THE DE MORGANS.* " I BELIEVE," wrote William De Morgan in 1914, " that Youth can never imagine the youth of its grandsires, can never really think of its grandmothers as-to put...

BO OK S. A NEW DEFENCE OF POETRY.* [COMMUNICATED.] I REsrrATE whether to call Mrs. Williams-Ellis's book a new defence of poetry or a defence of the new poetry, for it is...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. HOW DO WE STAND I N 0 one can take stock of the present position of these islands and of the British Empire as a whole without deep anxiety. Though the...

THE GIRLS.t MESSRS. HEINEMAANN are performing a real service in introducing Miss Edna Ferber, through the medium of the Atlantic Library, to the British public. Her novel, The...

FICTION. THE ALTAR STEPS.* THE reader, accustomed to Mfr. Compton Mackenzie's usual methods, will be amazed in this book to find himself in an atmosphere of rigid...