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Finance—public And Private.

FIRM MARKETS. CONFERENCE UNCERTAINTIES—WILL ACTIVE TRADE MAKE STOCKS DECLINE i—HOME RAILWAY YIELDS—SPECULATIVE MARKETS BETTER. [To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR."]......

" A Groat A Year." T Here Is Less Learning By

heart than there used to be. " A good thing too," say all those whose verbal memory is poor and who still resent the unjust handicap of their childhood. Indeed, it does seem a......