... series, there are more biographical touches and light gossip in the present volume than marked its predecessor. We see, so to speak, Professor Dowden in these pages either in lounge suit, in holiday mood, in the open air, or, as Horace .Walpole long ago put ...

... it is all the mere gratifying. The engines worked magnificently, and higher results than trials were obtained, and I cannot speak too highly of the medical staff and arrangements on subsequent trip, the ship being nothing but a hospital of a most painful ...

... Secretary to the Board of Agriculture has produced from the full wore of a very practical knowledge. Of the farmer Mr. Raw speaks with a hearty appreciation. He says: For over thirty years I have been engaged in the service of British agriculture, and ...

... but almost every day sees new and oppressive proclamations. Plain-clothes police, who speak French, and often Flemish, swarm everywhere, and if they overhear you speak against the German Government you are arrested and are lucky if you get off with a heavy ...

... crisis in Brazil was a feature which depressed not only the stocks of that country, but public securities as a whole. Roughly speaking, it may be said that at the end of June the whole of the appreciation established during the two months of the year had been ...

... been done by the American Women's Fund since its commencement, and Lady Lowther and other members of the committee will also speak. Amongst its activities the Fund is maintaining a hospital at Paienton, in a house tent by Mr. Paris Singer, which was recently ...

... resources accumulated during recent decades of prosperity, have helped in stiffening Germany's resisting power, financially speaking. it must, on the other hand, be evident to any observer that the above optimistic remarks are not warranted by the facts ...

... ADVICE TO ~ SLACKERS. Dr Maenamara. Parliamentary Secretary of the Admiralty, speaking at the Browning Hall Settlement, yesterday, made the following significant remark: It is no good mincing the matter. There still remain many thousands of young fellows ...

... station at Altkirch and did some destruction on the railway line between Draspach and Dierspach to the south-west of Altkirch. Speaking generally the appreciable relaxation noticeable in our offensive activity must be attributed to the incessant rains which ...

... standstill. They would be pleased if they were able to speak in a contrary sense. SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT. The firm of George Head and Co. ' auctioneers and surveyors, of 17. Baker-stre et, speaking through Mr. J. G. Head, cannot find that business has not ...

... turning and standing at ease puzzled some of the older members a great deal at the first drills last evening, but generally speaking good progress was made by , everyone. The men present ranged in age from 40 to 60. Every man who attended at Sun-street last ...

... This state of affairs seems to be general among the fiats of London—plenty of work and less remuneration. Mr. K C. Stewart, speaking for Messrs. Maple and Co.'s estate department, is to Rey that up to the present the war has not made much difference to him ...