The " Edinburgh Review " We Learn With Sadness That
the Edinburgh Review has ceased publication. Thus ends a great age in periodical writing. The form in which the articles used to be cast as " reviews " of books, although some......
Coroners' Courts The Reading Murder Inquest Has Brought...
light the whole question of the jurisdiction of Coroners' Courts. While we agree with one Coroner who has given his views on the subject that " the one thing worse than......
Sir Lionel Cust We Regret To Record The Death, At
the age of seventy, of Sir Lionel Cust, who retired last year from the position of Surveyor of the King's Pictures and Works of Art. Apprenticed to the British Museum, he was......
* * R 101 ' The First Flight Of The
State airship, ' R. 101 ' on Monday was entirely successful. She was easily con- trolled ; there was no appreciable vibration ; and with only three of her engines in action she......
The Outlook Of The Edinburgh Was, Of Course, Whiggish....
Smith was its first Editor, and Jeffrey, a hardly less famous man, its second Editor. Homer, Brougham, Hazlitt, Carlyle, Mill, Hallam, Thackeray, Macaulay, were among the......
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Bank Rate, 61 per cent., changed from 51 per cent., on September 26th, 1929. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101f ; on Wednesday week 1011- ; a year ago, 103 t o ;......
Widows' Pensions On Wednesday The Bill Providing For The...
of widows' pensions was issued. Pensions are proposed for widows between fifty-five and seventy whose husbands did not qualify them. Old age pensions are to be paid to all......
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