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Sterling's Splendid Isolation

Tim Congdon Three years ago the pound was collapsing on the foreign exchanges. As some wiseacres projected that it would drop to $1, newspapers became alarmed. Quite apart from......

One Hundred Years Ago

An action brought in Paris by a lady, Madame Gelyot, of the Rue de la Sorbonne, against M. Paul Bert, the celebrated physiologist and vivisectionist — who spoke, as we observed......