4 NOVEMBER 1916, page 15

The Poet Goes On To Develop His Theme :— "

Yes, 'tis too late—now Reason guides The mind, solo judge in all debate : And thus the important point decides, For laurels, 'tie, alas ! too late. What is possess'd we may......

No Doubt This Was A Muddle, But. We _cannot Agree

with the newspapers which seem to think that it will have a bad effect on the Administration. The - nation just now cares very little about what happens in Parliament, though no......

We Dealt Recently Very Shortly With The Appeal Of The

School of Oriental Studies, but we feel that the subject is one of suck enormous importance to the Empire that we must turn to it again. We must remind our readers that the......

In A Paper Called "the Farmer's Task," Read At The

Board of Agriculture on Monday, Mr. T. H. Middleton said that our food production was far from satisfactory. Germany bad two-thirds of her land under the plough, while we had......

Let Us Hasten To Say That The Fact That President

Wilson finds him- self in the mental predicament in which, as Crabbe points out, emost all men find themselves when they look back at their en- deavours and make resolves for......

Bank Rate, 6 Per Cent., Changed From 5 Per Cent.

July 13th.......

If We May Sum Up This Splendid Torrent Of Words,

the men wire are to govern the British Empire, though they should be encouraged to be good Orientalists, must first of all remember that it is their duty to think of the welfare......

We Note With Interest That General Sir Aylmer...

Corps Commander in the British Force in France, took his seat in the House of-Commons on Tuesday. The event is one of interest from the Parliamentary as well as the military......

Though We Quoted These Principles So Recently, We Cannot...

to quote them again. Lord Wellesley told the students of his College that " They are, in fact, the ministers and officers of a powerful sovereign; they must now be viewed in......

In Calling The Statement " Pathetic " We Recall How

Crabbe in his celebrated poem entitled " Reflections " depicts the man who at the end of life intends to use all the experience he has gained in the tumult and struggle of......

The World Has Been Surprised, And Naturally, By Mr. Wilson's

statement that it is for the last time that America has kept out of a world-wide war, and that in future it may be assumed that she will take her share in the conflict on one......

The Founders Of The School Feel Very Strongly That The

war has made the opening of such a School not less but more urgent, and that it is a matter of Imperial importance that it should be in full working as soon as hostilities have......