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  2. WORK FOR UPLIFT.

    The article entitled "Education and the Working Class" in the "Round Table" is designed first of all to suggest what education should be in a modern community, ...

    Article : 1,017 words
  3. NIGHT AT THE "TABLES."

    The story of a wealthy lady who, it was alleged, asked her hostess for a loan at 2 o'clock in the morning while "trying her luck" at the "tables" was told during the ...

    Article : 878 words
  4. HUBERT VON HERKOMER.

    "We regret to announce the death of Sir Hubert von Herkomer—the famous artist, "Engladn has over welcomed foreign painters. Holbein, Rubens, and Vandyke ...

    Article : 671 words
  5. SURGEON GORGAS.

    Surgeon-General Gorgas, the distinguished man who made the Panama Canal possible (thanks to the pioneer work of Manson and Ross), has been in London, and was given ...

    Article : 668 words
  6. GIRL WITH THE BULGARS.

    To know the grim terrors of war falls to the lot of few of our women. There is one English lady at least who can claim to be the exception, and she is Miss Jessica ...

    Article : 928 words
  7. EDINBURGH ZOO.

    Dr. W. S. Bruce, vice-president of the Zoo-logical Society of Scotland, gives a very interesting account in "Knowledge" of the progress of Scotland's Zoological Park, which, ...

    Article : 492 words
  8. BONUS FOR GENIUSES.

    "I have often wanted to give the poor millionaires a few hints for the better disposal of their millions, since even the man who declared that it is the duty of a millionaire to die poor can only discover one road to ...

    Article : 463 words
  9. KIKUYU WRANGLE.

    The article in the United Kingdom section of the "Round Table" is devoted to The Kikuyu Controversy. After analysing the position of the two parties, it argues that if ...

    Article : 497 words
  10. LIGHT FOR THE BLIND.

    "The blind and the deaf, with whatever loving care they may he surrounded, whatever tender service is bestewed upon them, live a life different from their fellow men. Theirs is a loncliness of the mind, which may be ...

    Article : 217 words
  11. TYPICALLY ENGLISH.

    "If you destroy the English hedgerow, you also destroy the English field," says the "Spectator." "Fields are the most typical thing in English scenery. When the Englishman returns from the heather of ...

    Article : 468 words
  12. RAIDS ON PURSES.

    The editor of the Missionary Press Bureau has compiled the following statement concerning the contributions raised annually in the United Kingdom for missionary purposes by the Protestant Churches. ...

    Article : 131 words
  13. LIBRARY WORTH £340,000.

    A rich American has purchased the Duke of Devonshire's library for £340,000. "The thought of a library that is deemed to be worth £310,000 has stirred our imagination," says the "Daily ...

    Article : 392 words
  14. SHAKESPEARE'S FRIENDS.

    Sir George Alexander, unveiling a memorial to James and Richard Burbage and other associates of Shakespeare, in the form of a tablet in Shoreditch Church and a public seat in the churchyard, said that James Burbage took ...

    Article : 163 words
  15. NOT PARTISANS.

    "There is a growing number of people who are not partisans," says the "British Weekly." "They love fairness; they are willing to hear both sides. Even if they are attached to a party, they are not committed ...

    Article : 129 words
  16. OUIDA AND THE GUARDS.

    "At least Ouida was a great personage, and for a time she lived the flamboyant life," says the Manchester "Cuardian," reviewing Elizabeth Lee's Memoirs of Ouida, "One of her methods of study was to invite ...

    Article : 233 words
  17. WASTE AND FRUGALITY.

    "We seemed to have come into a period of the world's history when all prosperous nations were running wild with waste—waste in government, waste in administration, waste in private expenditure, and waste in larger ...

    Article : 176 words
  18. PRINCE'S £9000 TOUR.

    "Another mysterious 'incident' concerning the Crown Prince has arisen in connection with the sudden abandonment of the Prince's tour of the German Colonies in Africa in June," says the "Mail." The "Taegliohe ...

    Article : 163 words
  19. PEAT MAGICIAN.

    Profesor W. B. Bottomley. Professor of Botany at King's College, lecturing before the Royal Society of Arts, with Professor Keeble in the chair, on "The Bacterial Treatment of Peat," suggested that there was ...

    Article : 290 words
  20. WHAT A WOMAN CAN DO.

    She can do more in a minute than a man can do in an hour, and do it better. Six of them can talk at once, and get along firstrate; and no two men can do that. ...

    Article : 283 words
  21. NEW ARMY ORDER.

    This is the new Army Order signed, "by Command of the Army Council," by Sir R. H. Brade, successor of Sir Edward Ward, in the office of Permanent Under-Secretary of ...

    Article : 189 words
  22. SIR ARTHUR PAGET.

    "Sir Arthur Paget, the officer commanding the forces in Ireland, in a soldier who has modelled himself on Lord Kitchener without possessing his transcendent ability," says the Liverpool "Daily Post." "In manner he ...

    Article : 141 words
  23. KAISER'S SHORTENED DINNER.

    "One of the last acts of the Kaiser before starting for Corfu was to institute a 'dinner reform' by deciding first of all that no official dinner shall last longer than 45 minutes from the time the guests sit down until they ...

    Article : 113 words
  24. A USEFUL BOY.

    "The chance discovery seven or eight years ago by a boy of a piece of copper-bearing ore has led to the opening up of a very promising copper mine on the estate of Otter, in Argyllshire, and extensive operations ...

    Article : 189 words
  25. KING EDWARD'S CHEF DEAD.

    M. Juste Alphonse Menager, King Edward VII.'s chef, has just died at 36. Twyford-avenue, Acton, at the age of sixty-eight. He became the royal chef about twenty years ...

    Article : 61 words
  26. TO HOBVIATE THE INCENSE.

    A gentleman, rushing from his dining room into the hall and sniffing disgustedly, demanded of Jeames, the footman, whence arose the outrageous o[?]or that was pervading the whole house. To which Jeames replied: ...

    Article : 71 words
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