Lord Acton Is A Person Whose Utterances Are Of Some
importance. He is perhaps the only genuine Liberal Catholic in England, that is to say, the only Catholic who is Liberal without being at heart -a sceptic also, and we have read......
Mr. E. A. Freeman Wrote A Letter To The Pall
Mall Gazette of Wednesday, called "A Word for Germany," but one of the main themes of which was, that he (Mr. Freeman) was historically- minded' almost to a fault. We know......
The Rumour About The Cession Of Pondicherry Has Excited...
society as nothing in this war has excited it. The demand is felt as a direct blow to England. We have discussed the mat- ter at length elsewhere, but we may here remind our......
Somebody Writing Disconsolately To Yesterday's Times, To...
become of the sun, complains that the meteorologists of the Times give a good deal of information as to the power of the sun's rays at " Oxii,"—a place, of which, as he......
Mr. William Morrison Is A Thorough Optimist, Not To Call
him even a sanguine enthusiast. At the annual dinner of the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce the other day, he con- gratulated himself on the prospect of,—what do our readers think......
The Local Exactions Of Germany In France May Not Be
worse than the local exactions of the First Napoleon in Germany, but they are unquestionably very oppressive indeed. Paris is to pay £8,000,000, say £4 a head,—numbers of the......
The Manchester Examiner Thinks It Has Quite A Crow Over
the Spectator. Our contemporary puts together a heap of sentences from this journal advocating the defence of Denmark, and asks whether we were not blind guides. It seems to us......
As We Apprehended, The Election Of The Belgian King By
France meets with no favour at Berlin. The people understand that the ar- rangement would redeem France, and they do not want France to be redeemed. The Times' Berlin......
The Metropolitan School Board Decided At Their Meeting...
in favour of physical training, but it was curious to remark the foolish jealousy of the word ' drill,' as implying a half-military sort of physical training, which seemed to......
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