... PLAIN SPEAKING. Mr. Kothwell Haslatn said: 1 have always been taught that hospitality and charity arc the greatest attributes of the City of London, and I think this is especially occasion when these attributes are called into play. I understand Mr. Spender ...

... LOUD SPEAKING TELEPHONE. A loud speaking telephone or automatic enunciator, which its claimed that sounds delivered single telephone transmitter may conveyed and reproduced clearly and simultaneously by any number from one to several thousand reproducers ...

... UR. ROOStVELTS PLAIN SPEAKING. “RULE—OB GET OUT.” Hr. Roosevelt was presented on Tuesday with the Freedom of the City of London at the Guildhall in presence a distinguished gathering. He drove to the City from the residence of tke American Ambassador ...

... ( John took » seat Beside her, and for a moment not speak. j “Are you cross ? she said, looking him jsoolly. I know you don’t like Captain Vincent, I think he is a perfect dear. «I don’t care hang about Captain (Vincent, ■ •aid John, losing his temper ...

... IN HOLIDAY MOOD. We have bad no summer to speak of this year. But the summer feeling comes over one in spite of meteorological conditions. And at the beginning of August many folks are not only holiday, but in Bank Holiday mood. I often think that that ...

... FREE WATER. NOBLE HUMANITARIAN WORK. The first remark necessary to made in speaking of the valuable work of the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association is to disperse the idea which might easily gain ground that, because of the enormous ...

... FRENCH AND ENGLISH PICTURES. The eighteenth century is not counted among the great centuries. It was, comparatively speaking, a century of pause. The first energy of the Reformation had expended itself. The New Learning, the Greek Revival, had lost its ...

... unfortunately, have little space in which to speak of it. Urielly, however, the monastery of Aueustine Knars was founded Humphrey Hobun, Karl of Hereford, in the year 1253 ami nourished prosperously ilenrv VIII., tlio instigation of Thomas Cromwell, laid ...

... MUNICIPAL NOTES. The growth and the establishment of municipal undertakings in Loudon of late years, generally speaking, has been of most remarkable character, and a return recently issued by the Islington Borough Council comes opportune time order to ...

... with us, said Lord Lanadowne, speaking for the leaders of the Unionist Party, deep-rooted conviction that no better use could be made of public credit than to use it for settling upon the soil of this country a number of men who would be, if I may borrow ...

... SHOREDITCH BOROUGH MUNICIPAL REPORTS. A CRITICISM. The report of the Borough Electrical Engineer—pages 203 to 209 —speaks of the considerable increase in the business done by the department by stating the number of consumers on the books at 31st March ...

... ANGLO-AMERICAN EXHIBITION. To celebrate one hundred years of peace and progress of the English-speaking people, an Anglo-American Exhibition Is to be held at tbe White City, Shepherd’s Bush, next year. The exhibition will have its president the of Teck ...