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  2. DECADENCE IN GERMANY.

    In Germany now bribery is so common that it is accepted as a matter of course. Hundreds of officials do not merely accept bribes; they ask for them. This statement ...

    Article : 467 words
  3. HOUSING IN MOSCOW.

    Before the Bolshevik revolutions house property in Moscow was in very much the same position as house property in London. Some of it was Crown land. The rest ...

    Article : 999 words
  4. ALFRED DEAKIN.

    Professor Walter Murdoch's biography of Alfred Deakin (London: Constable) has been eagerly awaited by many who kn[?]w that he had been engaged ...

    Article : 1,832 words
  5. ABOVE THE SPEAKER.

    "I will do my spriting gently." Nothing less than the Northern Territory was big enough for Parliament this week. The 500,000 odd square miles (and some of ...

    Article : 1,555 words
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  7. IN FLANDERS' FIELDS.

    "I've heard rumours that many of the British war cemeteries in France and Belgium are in a state of neglect." This sentence appeared in a pathetic letter ...

    Article : 928 words
  8. WILL SCOTLAND BE IRELAND?

    According to the "National Review," a large part of Scotland "threatens" to become a second Ireland—not a Northern Ireland, but a Southern Ireland, with all ...

    Article : 187 words
  9. ANIMALS AS SPIES.

    The use of animals as spies has been a military art practised in Japan from remote times. The animals so used were the dog, fox, and rat, which were trained for the ...

    Article : 449 words
  10. SAMSON OF THE IRON JAW.

    A modern Samson who bites through steel chains, twists iron rods into corkscrew shapes, and allows his chest to be used as an anvil-rest while iron is being ...

    Article : 221 words
  11. FAMOUS LIQUEURS.

    When the monks of the Grande Chartreuse, otherwise known as the Whi[?]e Friars, were driven out of France many years ago by a Government edict they ...

    Article : 456 words
  12. FOLLY OF BEING ILL.

    Dr. Leonard Williams, of Harley street, London, speaking at the Aldwych Club recently, on "Physiological Efficiency," said that if people got a disease it was, for the ...

    Article : 267 words
  13. LIFE MACHINE MADE.

    We are getting perilously like the machine men and women of the new drama from Prague (writes Ella Hepworth Dixon in the "Westminster Gazette"). We no ...

    Article : 319 words
  14. TAMING A SPIDER.

    We like spiders about the house no better than poor little Miss Muffet liked thom; they are unsightly, and then webs, unless we sweep them clear the minute they are ...

    Article : 322 words
  15. THE NAME OF SOHO.

    Not one in a thousand of those who find themselves in Soho could tell you how that part of London got its curious name. According to Samuel Pegge, the antiquary, ...

    Article : 139 words
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