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... It is, perhaps, not Mr. Conrad's fault that on reading his last contribution to the atmosphere of the East, ghosts are inclined to rise upon us. When Jim, the burly German captain, and his two engineers come up from the sea, as Marlow describes it, we arc faintly conscious of some old familiar acquaintances. Is it out of The Wreckers that these people have strayed ; or is i*. perhaps, “The Ebb ...

... This year, again, there have been few causes really cekbres. The affairs of Mr. Hooley have drawn more eye# the Bankruptcy Coart than to any other tribunal That financier’s revelations” led to an innovation procedure which permitted large number of contradictions on oath. Last year foe Druce case, perhaps, held foe field for sensationalism, and it has occasionally been mentioned in different ...

... WHERE AND HOW TO DINE IN LONDON. By laeuL-Gotonel NEWNHAM-DAVIB. With Introduction JOSEPH. Into Mnitra d'Hotel of the Savoy ; and cover designed LEWIS BAUBftER. Crown Bvo, cloth, 3r. 6 ...

... Th« Peruvimn Corporation report is expected this week, probably ...

... In the interminable reports of the proceedings in both Houses of Parliament last night there is much cry, but very little wool. Some of the speeches are interesting, not because they contain anything of serious import to the State, but because they-have that spice of personal bitterness and party passion which, though indicative of a decline in manners, makes, nevertheless, piquant reading. It ...

... The news which filled the later editions of yesterday’s evening papers is an excellent illustration of the doctrine that war is a game of ups and downs; that neither side will have all the luck in all circumstances; and, generally, that they who play at bowls must expect to receive rubbers. On the one hand, there was the announcement that Lord Methuen’s mounted men had succeeded in surrounding ...

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... THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 9, 1900. THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEFEST. Allied Civilization has decided, after all, to appoint a Generalissimo; for it may be taken for granted that the German Emperor would not publicly have offered the post to Count von Waldersee had not the assent of the other Governments been more or less formally obtained. Whatever the preliminary steps may have been, the result is a ...

... “Malcolm Ross,” the hero of story by Alexander Crtib, F.S.A. (Elliot Stock), which bears his name, was a Scotch curate who had every human virtue, aud such a complete want of humour that he laboriously and seriously explains that “an organ-grinder is no musician, he has no originality.” He also delighted” the little boys he met by taking their hands, and asking whether they said their prayers ...

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