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The English Attitude Of Mind Towards The French At The

present time is of exceptional interest. Those whose opinion has always been: " Never trust a Froggy! " are inevitably Wagging their insular tails ; they have always had their......

The Withdrawal Of The Threat To Tax Books Is To

be welcomed for more reasons than the obvious one. It shows that even in war-time not only the big commercial battalions prevail; the body of cultivated opinion in England,......

From This Another Thought Arises. Bureaucrats, As...

last war proved, have an unpleasant habit of clinging to emergency powers long after the emergency is past. We ought not, after this war, to be compelled to fight piecemeal, for......

If We Match This Loss Against The Enemy's Probable Output,

we may assume that by taking a day off now and then, as he did last Saturday, he can at least maintain the strength of his air-fleet ; but we, whose losses are greatly less, and......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE war is so complex and is being fought on a scale so J gigantic, that it is hard for the common reader—and, indeed. for men of expert knowledge—to assess the significance of......

Th , : Post Office Ought Never To Forget, While...

more tedious duties, that, alone among Government Depart- ments, it may proudly claim to be the Ministry of Romance. I -ate4 the Postmaster-General has requested us—without, as......

Family Allowances In War-time

E VEN in the sphere of social reform war presents its opportunities as well as its drawbacks. Though many measures of reform which would have been thought indispensable in......