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  2. QUEEN OF TRAGEDIES.

    Those who are poor, unimportant, and insignificent are inclined to envy the powerful and wealthy. Surely life to them with the ability to obtain every luxury must spell ...

    Article : 703 words
  3. JOHN WESLEY.

    John Wesley's account of his famous visit to Tottenham Court Road, when he preached Whitefield's funeral sermon, is given in the now volume of the Standard Edition of his ...

    Article : 746 words
  4. MARCH OF PEASANTS.

    "Thirty-two special trains in addition to the ordinary service have been pouring in the crowds of Swedish peasants who have come up to Stockholm from all parts of the ...

    Article : 700 words
  5. AMOROUS CURATE.

    That he had made love to a servant girl in his wife's absence was one of the allegations made against the Rev. James Carden, formerly curate of St. Stephen's, Hounslow, ...

    Article : 666 words
  6. THE TURKISH ARMY.

    The defeats of the German-trained Turkish army in the late war evidently have not shaken the faith of the Turks in the excellence of the Kaiser's military system. ...

    Article : 826 words
  7. TOURISTS IN BOMBAY

    "The tourist is a familiar figure in Bombay at the present time, for now the Indian season is in full swing and the tide of sightseers and holiday-makers has turned from ...

    Article : 417 words
  8. THE RURAL-LIFE ENGINEER.

    The Y.M.C.A. has many good things to its credit, but its work in the United Kingdom has been on somewhat restricted lines and has, therefore, failed to secure the full results of its activities. In a large measure its ...

    Article : 548 words
  9. GETTING A MOVE ON.

    "Quite an outery has been raised concerning the concessions said to have been granted to a French financier for what is called the 'modernising' of Jerusalem," says the ...

    Article : 618 words
  10. WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR?

    "A widening of sympathy whereby all men's joys are ours, a deepening of consciousness whereby all mental satisfactions permeate all—these are the distinguishing, featured of our new ethics." This is the conclusion of ...

    Article : 288 words
  11. THE MIDDLE CLASSES.

    "The middle classes of Great Britain are a dying race. My prescription for the avoidance of the death that seems inevitable is the re-establishment of First Love, the revival ...

    Article : 572 words
  12. GERMANS IN MEXICO.

    It was a saying of Bismarck that the Germans always made themselves conspicuous in foreign countries, but Baron Gelser, writing in the "Vosslsche Zeltung" (Berlin), ...

    Article : 370 words
  13. RIGHT TO STRIKE.

    "We have to recognise that the South African Government has declared war on the right to strike," says the "Nation." "We will not say that it has declared a strike ...

    Article : 284 words
  14. BIRCH FOR INTELLECTUALS.

    "In almost every country which contains a democratic movement of whatever description, there exists side by side with that movement a certain class whom for ...

    Article : 457 words
  15. LAUGHED AT SOLDIERS.

    An echo of the Zabern court-martial dictum, that a civilian may not laugh at a soldier, was heard at Strasburg, when a young man was arrested by soldiers for ...

    Article : 113 words
  16. SHAKING HANDS WITH THE EMPIRE.

    "It was Mr. A. G. Gardiner, of the "Daily News," with his passion for the neat phrase, who described Lord Strathcona as an allegory of the Great White North, and like ...

    Article : 67 words
  17. A RIDICULOUS PROTEST.

    "The Russian, French, and British Ambassadors at Constantinople called one after the other on the Grand Vizier last month and asked him for explanations of the appointment of the German General Liman von Sanders ...

    Article : 239 words
  18. THE DECEITFUL WIFE.

    Mr. Ralph Nevill, the late Lady Dorothy Nevill's son, who has just published a now book, says that this is the golden age of fad, and be tells an amusing story at the expense of one of his faddist acquaintances. ...

    Article : 197 words
  19. EDUCATION OF GIRLS IN INDIA.

    The whole social system of India tells against any education of women which goes beyond the mere rudiments. The intellect of a woman has hardly been recognised as having any rights or claims, and the ...

    Article : 99 words
  20. THE SIGNAL.

    Richard Voyle, a private in the 18th Hussars, stated at Marlborough Police Court that, hearing a woman's cries, he entered a house at Ramsbury, Wiltshire, and found a husband beating his wife. The man levelled ...

    Article : 125 words
  21. OUR SLEEPY CARELESSNESS.

    "On returning to England, after an absence of more than twenty-one years spent chiefly among the highly organised States of the Continent, I have been struck by nothing so ...

    Article : 92 words
  22. LONDON HOTELS AS AN INVESTMENT.

    Mammoth hotels of a thousand rooms cannot be built, even in London, without making a marked impression on any margin there may be for fresh a commodation, and the "popular' 'establishment may speedily become as ...

    Article : 103 words
  23. WIFE WITH WAVY HAIR.

    The following letter from Daniel Kemp, of Science Hill, Ontario, was read at a meeting of the South Molton (Devon) Guardians:—"I wood like you to get a good wife and manager. I ...

    Article : 99 words
  24. ONE MAN ONE PAPER.

    "Much has been said on 'One man one vote' and 'One man one value,' but there is one reform of infinitely greater importance, namely, that the people shall be allowed to ...

    Article : 56 words
  25. NOT ON THEIR OWN.

    "The ideal of the future must be a humanism which no more idealises 'the woman on her own' than it admires the isolated man, but allows to each personality and freedom, and links them in a comradeship against ...

    Article : 57 words
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