The Presidential Address Delivered At The Annual Meeting...
Classical Association by Lord Bryce on Friday, the 5th inst., was a reasoned defence of the Humanities, all the more effective for its moderation. Lord Bryce admitted frankly......
After An Interesting Digression On The Value And...
translation, Lord Bryce devoted the remainder of his address to adducing grounds for the belief that the values, commercial and literary, of modem languages did not outweigh the......
M. Maeterlinck, Addressing A Great Meeting In Paris Last...
sternly rebuked the neutrals for their comparative indifference to the monstrous cruelties perpetrated by the Germans in Belgium. They had done something, he admitted, for the......
Granted That The Consumption Of Liquor Is A Luxury And
not a necessary, its elimination at the cost of seventeen millions a year would be cheap indeed. It would set free some hundred and sixty millions of purchasing-power. However,......
If We Buy Out The Trade, The Loss, If War
Prohibition or Restriction, which is tantamount to Prohibition, is found necessary, as we believe it will be, will fall upon the State. There will then be nobody to forbid us......
Another Point Remains To Be Considered. We Are Told That
the expense will be too great. We do not agree. But before we argue that point we desire to answer the question asked by the if est- tat:4er Gazette at the end of its article :......
We Do Not, However, Desire To Go Into These Details,
for we are not trying to convert the Temperance Party to Purchase. Once more, we desire Purchase because it is the direct road to the two war measures which we want : (1)......
It Will Be Perfectly Safe For The Promoters Of Purchase
to pledge themselves to automatic reduction in the number of public-houses. No one, except under a system of insane com- petition, could desire to see half-a-dozen public-houses......
Any One Who Comes To Close Quarters With The Subject
will soon find, las we have done, that the Trade is far too powerful for such a plan to succeed. They have far too much influence over the Press and over both polit;cal parties......
That Mighty Hunter, Captain Frederick Courteney Scions,...
deep regret, been killed in action in Fast Africa. He was nearly sixty-five. At the age cf sixty-three he took a oommission in the Royal Fusiliers and went out to Africa to hunt......
Bank Rate,6 Per Ceat., Change I From 5 Per Cent.
July 13th, '16.......
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