20 JUNE 1914, page 20

Railways.*

MOST of us take for granted the vast services rendered every day by the railways which carry us or our food and goods so regularly. But strikes and a Railway Commission have......

Three Volumes Of Sermons.*

FEWER sermons are published to-day than was the case a generation ago, because fewer are read. The taste for eloquence has diminished, and so preachers give less time to its......

Mr. Shaw's "parent's Assistant."* "what A Pity That So Great

a man should have been so badly brought up," said Talleyrand of the Emperor Napoleon. When we consider the autobiographical vignettes which stand out from the particolonred......