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orderly, and listened with attention, and apparently with much relief,
The Spectatorto the addresses which Mr. Marwick, the Assistant-Secretary for Native Affairs, delivered on the cer- tainty of immunity from the plague if proper precautions were followed....
Both Admiral Togo and Admiral Yamamoto, the Japanese Minister of
The SpectatorMarine, in their despatches attribute the recent success before Port Arthur to the "glorious virtue" or the "illustrious virtue" of the Mikado, and the phrase seems to have...
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Compared with Receipt. in 1900-4.
The SpectatorIncrease. Decreane. 10,000 23,000 258,000 Incest... Demean E139,060,000 01.788,000 Compared with Ex- penditure in 19314. Increase. — Dearceee. 4123,03 . 0 £4,000...
lion.Tax Nevem.. 22,460,000
The SpectatorThe great American parties have apparently settled upon the candidates for the Presidency, though they have still to receive the benediction of the National Conventions. There...
If taxation were to be left at its present level,
The Spectatorthere would, in view of the expenditure sanctioned, be a deficit in the current financial year of £3,820,000. Therefore Mr. Austen Chamberlain, since he very properly refuses to...
was the intervention at its close of Mr. Chamberlain, who
The Spectatordealt in a jocose speech with Mr. Lough's amendment that the duty on tea should be M. instead of 8d. MB point was that in future people would not be able to tell him that his...
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The Submarine Al was raised on Monday, and the officers
The Spectatorand men who perished in the terrible accident of March 18th were buried after a most impressive ceremony amid every sign of national mourning in Hasler Cemetery on Tuesday, the...
The Submarine Al was raised on Monday, and the officers
The Spectatorand men who perished in the terrible accident of March 18th were buried after a most impressive ceremony amid every sign of national mourning in Hasler Cemetery on Tuesday, the...
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A FREE-TRADE BUDGET. it is admitted, they look for support
The Spectatorin a period of stress and difficulty. Beer, wine, and spirits being put out T HE Budget is a Free-trade Budget. That this defeat of Protectionist ideas is due in a great...
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neither a crime to drink nor to sell beer, wine,
The Spectatorand spirits, and we repudiate as strongly as we can the unjust and ridiculous notion that those engaged in brewing and distilling are public enemies. For our views on the...
That policy, which, as Count von Billow hinted in his
The Spectatorspeech of last week, was not a little Machiavellian, was for many years fairly successful, the British Govern- ment continuing almost openly suspicious of that of France, while...
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of Norfolk, who is recognised as the mouthpiece and leader
The Spectatorof English Roman Catholic laymen, is endeavour- ing to remove the boycott which has been proclaimed against the Jews of Limerick. That boycott, though it seems a small affair, a...
work of the Free-fooders, for so far as they are
The Spectatoran active force they will be ranged on this'question with the Opposition. But as regards the Ministerialists he finds himself in a perplexity. Do they follow Mr. Chamberlain or...
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shocked by the bare idea of such a departure from
The Spectatorcustom ; but, after all, the proposed innovation is not so great as appears at first sight. Protestant tradition furnishes us with a precedent; we do not need to go back to a...
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would have been thought incredible that the nature and custom
The Spectatorwhich seemed so deeply ingrained in the Eastern mind could change so swiftly,—even that it could change at all; and possibly there are still some men with a long experience of...
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I N the references in the Times to the will of
The Spectatorthe late Mr. Aubrey Harcourt, of Nuneham, a paragraph in the demise of the estate by his father is quoted. In it the previous owner of the Harcourt estates and of Nunebam Park,...
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SIE,—Not a few lovers of the old Universities will remember
The Spectatora certain charming chapter in Miss Thackeray's " Old Kensington" which begins thus " The doors of the old Library at All Saints were open wide to admit the sunshine. It lighted...
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" We are all born little Conservatives or little Liberals,"
The Spectatorsays the comic opera. This hypothesis of an inborn and inherent distinction of political character has been seriously put forward in justification of the party system. It need...
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afford to pay the enhanced price created by their tariff.
The SpectatorAmerica, with its huge tariff more than doubling the cost, takes a greater quantity of British goods than any other country ; while the Colonies take them freely, and Britain...
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HAWFINCHES ON WIMBLEDON COMMON.
The Spectator[To ma EDITOR Or T. “SPECTATOR") STE, — It may interest your correspondent on this subject (Spectator, April 9th) to hear that we have for many years had two pairs of fine...
of national concern the ordinary procedure of the Light Railways
The SpectatorAct is quite inappropriate. The inquiry into schemes is local, and takes no account of the persons scattered widely over the country who are often deeply interested in a...
J. FROWN WILKINSON, M.A., Past President of the National Conference
The Spectatorof Friendly Societies.
Ste,—Some of your readers may know that a scheme has
The Spectatorreceived the preliminary sanction of the Light Railway Commission for carrying an " overhead " electric tramway up Nant-Gwynant to Pen-y-Gwryd, and thence by Cupel Curig and the...
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part, And, taking each his own, Should render back with
The Spectatorhonest heart What was the other's loan,' Before my gems, which at your feet I poured, I want those kisses sweet I gave a hundredfold ; Then when in turn you claim your due You...
season in one country, but the harvest of several years
The Spectatorand lands. Nevertheless, there was a stimulating quality, a feeling of independence of outlook, which is not remark- able in the mass of the pictures now to be seen. Too many of...
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"it is a curse
The SpectatorTo understand, not feel thy lyric flow, To comprehend, but never love thy verse." In fact, the Odes am clearly not inspired by personal emotion. It needs a German Professor to...
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Nevertheless, Mr. Romesh Dutt'a aims and conclusions are sufficiently clear.
The SpectatorHe is attempting, not without effect, to give a history of the Indian administration from the year 1835, with a criticism of the policy, internal and external, that has been...
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• Mona from a Glow lime. By Jane H. Nindlater.
The SpectatorLondon J. Nisbet sad Co. f 0 .] sad—hence the sad books." To deny the capacity of thought- fulness to those who are in the main optimists is a highly dis- putable proposition....
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and the "chuck-and-chance-it" angler will have a sorry time. If
The Spectatorthe Test angler makes use of skilled knowledge, the Irish angler makes use of skilled conjecture. This is well brought out in the story of the day on the river whose name in...
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The Imperialist. By Sara Jeannette Duncan (Mrs. Everard Cotes). (A.
The SpectatorConstable and Co. 6a.)—The average reader about half way through The Imperialist will experience all the indignant feelings of the child who finds a powder concealed in a...
memory, almost ceasing to repine, Would mount to Hope if
The Spectatoronce secure of thine. Meantime the tele I weave most mournful be. As absence to the heart that lives on thee." We cannot leave this volume without most heartily congratulating...
hone. (Elliot Stock. 6s. net.)—This is a hi g hly interesting and
The Spectatorinstructive book ; distinguished by a fine literary flavour, and written in a praiseworthy spirit of impartiality. One error, how- ever, we must take leave to point out. After...
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