... resignation of the manage* has been demanded. The chairman states that “ there is great disorder ig matters here.” Which does not speak well for the acumen of the board. ...

... trying not to be a woman in these matters. Sometimes, for instance, I remind myself that literalness is a mere virtue, while speaking the truth in a vague, indeterminate sort of way, that used to be punished in the nursery, is a quality ; but I still go being ...

... partly (by Captain Marlow) in the first. But the rcmainingJOO pages seem to be an afterthought, the extension of which rumour speaks. he formlessness which haunts such work as have endeavoured to describe is vastly augmented by this plan. Indeed, for all ...

... Nevertheless, it is the soberest truth and tha soundest common sense. Like “the honest broker” tha Count believes in plain speaking, and so do we. Englishmen, at least those who do not wish to live in a fool paradise, should be grateful for such frank assurance ...

... es, especially as regards tne results attained in speeds, the behavour of boilers, and so forth. We read that, generally speaking, the Belleville boiler is being adopted, and the cylindrical boiler rejected, but we are left to infer that this is for ...