18 SEPTEMBER 1909, page 3

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......

Lord Rosebery's Eloge Ends With A Passage Of Such Lofty

eloquence that we cannot resist the pleasure of quotation :- "There is a human majesty about him which commands our reverence, for we recognise in him a great intellect, a large......

Lord Robert Cecil's Criticisms Of The Advisory Committee...

Development Bill proposed to set np have so greatly impressed the Government that Mr. Lloyd George announced an important concession in Grand Committee on Thursday. To assuage......

We Have Felt Constrained To Protest Against Lord...

hasty adoption of the conventional views in regard to Johnson; this is but a very small blot on a really great speech. The larger part of the address is a most charming analysis......

The Archbishop Of Canterbury Drew Attention To The...

the reform of the Poor Law in a long and interesting speech in the Lords on Wednesday. After an historical review of the subject, in which he described the changes in the......

Though We Yield To None In Our Admiration Of Boswell

and of what we may term the anecdotal side of Johnson, and though we admit that Johnson the man was greater than Johnson the author, we do not hesitate to say that if Boswell......

The Multiplication Of New Officials Entailed By The...

various schemes is beginning to exercise even so thoroughgoing a supporter as the Daily Chronicle. Indepen- dently of the proposed separate Board of Agriculture for Scotland,......

By A Curious Coincidence, Lord Rosebery Within Five Days Of

his great Budget speech gave an address at the Johnson bicentenary celebration (at Lichfield on Wednesday) which from a literary point of view is as good as the Budget speech......

Bank Rate, 2 Per Cent., Changed From 3 Per Cent.

April let. Consols (2i) were on Friday 831—Friday week 83i.......