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  2. SHYNESS OF THE NOVELIST.

    An odd backwardness, a curious feeling of hositation, it seems, attacks our novelists just at the moment when they reach their emotional climaxes, and they fear to give the pen ...

    Article : 432 words
  3. PROFANE GERMANY.

    Church attendance in Protestant Germany is shrinking in what the "Christian World's" Berlin correspondent, quoted in the "Christian Work," calls an alarming way. ...

    Article : 861 words
  4. BERLIN NIGHT TRAIN.

    Hers is a clever article by Mr. F. W. Wile, the Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Mail," which shows the remarkable significance of the Night Train to Berlin. ...

    Article : 1,246 words
  5. THE LIQUOR BUSINESS.

    When an institution that has been the object of reforming efforts takes to reforming itself, or to preaching its own need of reform, its enemies may take comfort. The ...

    Article : 935 words
  6. SHAKESPEARIAN FOOL.

    Modern dramatists who would like to produce an original character might take a leaf from the editorial page of the New York "Evening Post." There the subtle editorial ...

    Article : 935 words
  7. LOCATING AN INDUSTRY.

    Failure may overtake an industry simply because it has not been properly placed. The raw material may be too far away, necessitating costly transportation; the factory may be remote from its market. Transportation, ...

    Article : 1,225 words
  8. SUBSTITUTE FOR CEMENT.

    In a recent official report, United States Consul W. W. Masterson, of Harput, Turkey, states that in that country, where cement is hardly known, a substitute has been found ...

    Article : 285 words
  9. MARCONI'S NEW MIRACLE.

    "A new miracle has been performed by Mr. Marco[?] "At a distance of six miles he has lighted up a suitably designed bulb by wireless current supplied from a 100 b.p. plant. This brings the world a stage nearer ...

    Article : 249 words
  10. THEY KNEW WHAT HE MEANT.

    The Kaiser's decision that only photographs of the Imperial Family that have met with his approval shall be offered for public sale, recalls a story of a hawker who used to ...

    Article : 257 words
  11. PUBLIC DINNERS.

    "The Times" makes the happy suggestion that public dinners to distinguished guests should be abolished, and the guineas devoted to some beautiful object as a souvenir. ...

    Article : 381 words
  12. EVERYDAY HEROISM.

    "These who talk so gilbly of the degeneration of the race may well he recommended to take a course of reading those columns of the newspapers which tell of accidents, shipwrecks, dis[?]ters of every kind," says ...

    Article : 193 words
  13. REFORM IN OUR TOWN.

    There was a man in Our Town, And Jimson was his name, Who cried, "Our civic government Is honeycombed with shame." ...

    Article : 362 words
  14. RADIUM AS CANCER CURE.

    He who believes that the recent newspaper flurry over the use of radium in the treatment of cancer corresponds to any new discovery or to any change in attitude ...

    Article : 437 words
  15. ENORMOUS PUBLIC FOR NOVELS

    "Is there a new public for the same novel whenever it is issued at a new price?" asks the "British Weekly." "Publishers certainly seem to think so, and they, after all, ought to know. Mr. Dent in his new Shilling ...

    Article : 122 words
  16. TO CROSS THE ATLANTIC.

    It seems quite possible that the Atlantic will be crossed this year by an airman, so as to win the £10,000 offered by the "Daily Mail" for a flight in 72 hours. ...

    Article : 178 words
  17. SEVEN WIVES AT FUNERAL.

    Seven of his divorced wives attended the funeral of Lionel Lawrence, who was eleven times married during the fifty-two years of his life. In 1890 Lawrence married Jessie Cunningham at San Francisco; in 1892 he espoused ...

    Article : 309 words
  18. THE CITY WITHOUT NIGHT.

    Mr. Herman Scheffauer presents in the "Pall Mall Magazine" a study of the night lfe of the youngest of the great European capitals—Berlin. Th article, which is profusely illustrated in colors by Leslie Hunter ...

    Article : 163 words
  19. LONDON'S MOST TYPICAL SIGHTS

    "The time is approaching when country relatives will be coming to town, and the responsibility of what they should see will rest with us,' says a writer in the "Star." "Which are the most typical sights of London? My ...

    Article : 145 words
  20. SIR HORACE PLUNKETT.

    "Sir Horace Plunkett has acquired a profound knowledge of his countrymen in the patriotic labors to which he has devoted the last twenty-five years of his life," says the "Times," apropos of his suggestion with regard ...

    Article : 110 words
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