Evening Walk in Springtime (verse)

...And the former Unionist party funds for the building of the gallery...

...it has long been brewing, and it selves to have the same king as the English...

...Can Are we, indeed, on the earth...

...he should have been advised, not by his English, but by his KWEI CHEN...

...those who are striving to establish better relations between the One more note-another...

...to the capital of the newest of European states...

...By a codicil to his will he harmony with their tradition and belief-that would give them restored the pictures to Dublin...

...Republicanism will gallery to house the collection...

...It Celebrating her birthday ! is morally certain that Sir Hugh Lane wanted the pictures to It is as the notes of flute go to Dublin...

...It was advocated has just been precipitated by the opening of a new wing of by Arthur Griffith in the early days of Sinn Fein...

...When the Tate Gallery in London by King George-a wing which Republicanism again comes to the fore as a practical political is to house the collection...

...out to him that in an action that compromised Ireland's claim Return, let us return...

...The pictures remained in London...

...It was advocated Southern Ireland, himself a Southern Irishman, Lord Carson...

...Senator Yeats, when he asked if King George had it pointed The cow is afar mooing...

...The and provide that social centre in Ireland that they feel they need British government refused to introduce legislation to make Meanwhile, Senator Yeats's political implication must be the codicil effective on the ground that it would create a dan- deplored by the Free State authorities...

...In a speech demanding the restoration of the Lane collection, Now all windows are lit...

...But this selves before they are able to see a solution that would be in was not his final disposition...

...The codicil, however, was not an object for their personal loyalty, that would bring the witnessed, and Sir Hugh Lane was drowned in the Lusitania northern counties into communion with the rest of Ireland, disaster before he could make his intention more effective...

...Sir Hugh Lane then will have to discover a political intelligence amongst themwithdrew his offer and left his collection to London...

...case he has sufficient right on his side to justify him taking the risk of placing an additional stumbling-block in the path of Ah, they cease...

...The last note-as fresh as the first...

...328 THE COMMONWEAL August 4, 1926 PICTURES AND POLITICS Irish ministers, made a point that has large political implications...

...a new is striving for separate diplomatic representation, which has wing of the Tate Gallery was built by Sir Joseph Duveen to insisted upon its army being under its own minister of defense house them, and King George, by opening it, has made the and its army commissions coming from the president of the gesture of presenting the Lane collection to the English people.executive council, cannot but be embarrassed by references to The commission set up in England reported that it was King George's "Irish ministers...

...politics, conscientiously maintain that on the facts of the Lane It cannot be...

...Mr...

...The Irish people feel about the pictures in the way that the Irish States- It is the song of the Eight Immortals man put it recently when it said that the question was not one Who sing to the Princess of the West as between two galleries, but one as between two peoples...

...Obviously, if Irish ministers tendered advice that was A N Anglo-Irish conflict that has to do, not with political acted upon by King George a dual monarchy would come rights, but with modern art, has aspects that make it into existence between England and Ireland, creating the worthy of the headlines that our daily newspapers have been situation that formerly existed between Austria and Hungary giving it...

...ready to build a gallery to house modern pictures which would All these notes are sweet,do so much to give prestige and probably artistic creativeness None is dominating...

...undoubtedly intended that the pictures should go to Dublin, and then it went on to say that if Sir Hugh Lane had lived Evening Walk in Springtime to see the splendid housing that had been provided for his collection he would have been content to let the pictures stay Listen ! in London...

...sider itself qualified to pronounce on the probable intentions Come ! of the dead...

...by Jonathan Swift, when he said, "If the English oblige themThe conflict is over Sir Hugh Lane's bequest of a great col- selves to have the same king as we have, we shall oblige ourlection of modern pictures...

...In notable personalities-Senator William Butler Yeats, Lady Ireland it is likely that more and more will be heard about Gregory, and oddly enough, that redoubtable antagonist of the dual monarchy as a political possibility...

...Designs for such a gallery not only have to discard its present leadership, it will have to were produced by a famous architect, but for one reason or live down the memory of that leadership before it becomes a another the Dublin Corporation made no effort to provide practical issue in Ireland...

...issue in Ireland it is very likely that the dual monarchy will About thirteen years ago Sir Hugh Lane offered to Dublin be advocated as a dignified solution of Anglo-Irish relations the greatest collection of modern pictures that existed in by those who would have some bond between the two countries...

...Harkening...

...two peoples...

...Meanwhile, the new city commissioners in Dublin are making What euphony...

...Europe, on the condition that the Dublin Corporation build a But these issues are still a long way off...

...On the Irish side it has brought into the fray many and that at present exists between Denmark and Iceland...

...Baldwin, who exalts the virtue of fair-mindedness in Such music for mortals...

...Apparently, in this case, the English governing The birds are still singing classes do not think it odd that a legal commission should con- Yonder in the pine thicket...

...A government which gerous precedent...

...Let us go near to them, The collection is now valued at about a million dollars...

...Should justice be denied," said the Irish In the Palace of the Moon Statesman, "the responsibility will rest, not upon the directors When there the Beautiful Ones dance of the Tate Gallery, but upon the British government...