26 SEPTEMBER 1903, page 11

The Private Secretary.

HE place of a private secretary," said Miss Adela Ferrara, "is by his chief's wife. We all know that." In seriousness, it is difficult to say what is, still more, what is not, a......

, The Distribution Of British Animals.

T HE report that some malicious person had liberated rattlesnakes in Ireland turned out to be untrue. But in the comments which followed attention was drawn to the great......