... Italy has not raised such a man. Portrait of an Ancestor 'pHE Desire to Please. A Story of Hamilton Rowan and the 1 United Irishmen (Constable 15s.) is the second volume in Harold Nicolson's series In Search of the Past Helen's Tower having been the ...

... happiness of his own life began to have a deep unrest at its core. He must act and he did act he threw in his lot with the United Irishmen. These sober bourgeois intellec tuals hardly knew what to make of him, but he worked with them and, along with them, was ...

... But I live m the country and must be careful. Well, one of the stories is of St. Patrick's Day. Of course there were Irishmen in it. It was a dinner which they had been holding at the Savoy. By 10.30 the most com plete harmony reigned between Fenian ...

... for several seasons, and the Irishmen will be all out to shoe that the Twickenham defeat has not shaken their nerves nor caused undue depression. England's sympathies, from a selfish point of view, will be with the Irishmen because, if they win, England ...

... An Irishman alone among men of other nationalities and there is no height to which he will not attain. But Irishmen alone among other Irishmen and all that they achieve seems to be a bloodthirsty disorder, the more bloodthirsty the more they thoroughly ...

... who is in the Coldstreams. Changes at the United States Embassy. Tp nglish society is about to lose one of its most popular American mem bers by the departure of Mr. Ridgeley Carter, First Secretary at the United States Embassy in London. He is shortly ...

... All iim the Osim s By 2^. A. Bo PEOPLE seem surprised that Italy has settled her debt to the United States so quickly, and on more favourable terms than Belgium, and on much more favourable terms than ourselves. The reason is not far to seek. There is ...

... the twenty-six counties, but those of our fellow- countrymen who find themselves working out side our island in England, the United States and the Dominions. The unity of Ireland is a matter on which the greater number of the country are agreed. The opposition ...

... (left to right), back row H, J. F. Lane (United Services). D. M. Marr (Cambridge University), P. E. Dunkley (Harlequins), F. H. Waters (London Scottish). Middle row: E. de Lissa, H. L. G. Hughes, N. L. Evans (United Services). H. F. W. Wickert (Rosslyn Park) ...

... in either of their previous games, and yielded very little ground if, indeed, any at all to the desperate attacks of the Irishmen. Everyone holds the Welsh three-quarters in high respect, but on this occasion their forwards took their full share of the ...

... was finally beaten by a short head. Miss Sutton, whose portrait appears on this page, like Clothier and Lamed comes from the United States. She is little more than a girl, is as agile as a kitten, and has a forearm that would do credit to a black smith. ...

... all, though the trunk con taining the victims was sent to a ware house there by Devereux. If a millionaire lunatic in the United States murdered his wife in Chicago and sent the body to Grosvenor Square, where it was discovered by the London police, would ...