18 SEPTEMBER 1909, page 2

We Need Hardly Say That The German Emperor Has Every

right in the world to insist on the necessity of self-defence. But what we cannot understand is that, when the Emperor is so continually preaching the need of maintaining great......

Gifts Inter Vivo* From Twelve Months To Five Years Revealed

considerable discontent on the Ministerial benches, and elicited a most damaging speech from Mr. Balfour. The Government, he contended, were throwing an absolutely impracticable......

Mr. E. H. Harriman, Who Died On Thursday Week, Was

for the last few years of his life perhaps the greatest financial power in the United States. His differences of opinion with Mr. Roosevelt took the form of a bitter enmity......

The Times Of Saturday And Monday Last Published Com- Mander

Peary's full narrative of his journey to the North Pole. The Times very naturally forbids reproduction, but we trust we shall not be guilty of any breach of journalistic comity......

The "young Egypt" Congress Has Been Sitting At Geneva This

week, attended by about a hundred and twenty Egyptian Nationalists, Mr. Keir Hardie and Mr. Barnes representing the British Labour, and Mr. Kettle and Mr. Hazleton the Irish......

The Berlin Correspondent Of The Times Remarks In Monday's...

on the present fashion in Germany of extolling the virtues of economy. The North German Gazette points out that in all the recent Estimates a large allowance was made for......

The Vienna Correspondent Of The Morning Post Contributes...

study of Count Aehrenthal to Monday's issue, a propos of the reticence of the Press over his recent advance in rank. This absence of comment the writer attributes to Count......

Last Sunday Morning Professor Wolf Of Heidelberg Dis-...

comet, for which all astronomers have been watching. It last appeared in 1835, and its brilliance is slightly less at each appearance. This is the comet which caused......