... THE AMERICA CUP. The fin( Stage of the great international evert—the race for the America Cup—took pia * yesterday, but proved unaatisfactray. On h e day pe t , emus American spotsmen, ae well as those w.„ 3 were ;u favour of the Shamrock, gut a by the ...

... AMERICA'S EFFORT. AMERICA is preparing for war with a wholehearted vigour which leaves no doubt of our new Ally's determination to throw her whole weight into the cause of freedom. The success of Mr Balfour's mission was never in doubt. The United States ...

... America and Prohibition. AMLItICA her experienced one year of pruhibi• taint, according to certain newspapers it has proved a failure. But why should there be et much haste in coming to a ctinclusion. Just as people in this country anticspataxl a drastic ...

... America and Germany. At first the Press were in, lined to I out into a campaign of aurae and defiance America. They did nut like the tenour 4.f the note sent to their country Preeddent and they did apt care to give up their undersea boat campaign. But ...

... IN AMERICA. l'ertai the mires in Ureat Britaiu w•Ito still offer iiiesisit to the tote of machine coal cutters tai tt lit well take a lemon from America. where a remarkable record has recently been achieved with a Jeffrey 35 B shurtwali machine. Workit ...

... AMERICA AND PEACE. Tut Pope's endeavour bring about peace ha been aeswered by the American President in a way u likh cannot be misunderstood and in language which is unequivocal, and will command the assent of the Allies who are now engaged in the struggle ...

... AMERICA AND GERMANY. AMERICA has at length severed diplomatic re- Lotions with the German Empire. It does not follow that the Government, at Washington will immediately declare war. The official attitude is that having by this step given a warning to ...

... LITERATURE IN AMERICA. Mr. Barrett Wendell, in his compendious book on the Literary History of America. makes the following observations on the tongue : Yet, English or not, we Americans are Englishspeaking still; and English-speaking we must always remain ...

... AMERICA AND GERMANY. limit a week after the time that the particulars became known. incident. came as a great surprise to the officials at Washington. They had been practically building op hopes of a successful issue of America's dii.lonutt ie represcntati ...

... DEFENCELESS AMERICA. In his book, entitled as above, published is New York by Hearst's International Libra!) Company. sfr. Hudson Maxim, writing artillery. quotes the following remarkabN statement from the Scientific .Ini•rica : We have in the hands ...

... audience that assembled. The Rev. W. L. Fraser, M.A., presided. Dr Kelivian's subject was America in Arms, and was largely an answer to the question why America delayed so long in corning into the war and having waited so long why did she come in at all ...

... AMERICA'S VISITATION. Tilt: folks of the United States boast of their country, its open expanses, its great rivers. and thundering waterfalls. It is the land, too, of the multi-millionaire. Everything is on a big scale, and of late years, especially since ...