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  2. WEBSTER'S INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY.

    H Solomon were now living he would modify his famous saying and decline that "of making one book there is no cud," if that book were a dictionary, and especially ...

    Article : 2,664 words
  3. THE DREYFUS STORY RETOLD.

    Early in 1894 the French War Office was thrown into a state of trepidation through the news that there was considerable "leakage" in the Bureau de la Guerre. The ...

    Article : 5,441 words
  4. THE RETURN FROM OMDURMAN.

    The arrival of the Guards in London is graphically described by a correspondent of the "Morning Leader." He writes:—A big, strapping officer strides down the ...

    Article : 400 words
  5. WOMAN'S REALM.

    A short time ago all our interest centred in the mysterious and poetical Empress of Austria. Now another Empress, quite as mysterious in one sense, but not at all ...

    Article : 1,679 words
  6. THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.

    Consequent upon the Ritnalistic storm in the Church of England, and the three important visitation addresses on the subject delivered by the Archbishop of ...

    Article : 538 words
  7. THE PASSING SHOW.

    We are in the midst of what mariners call heavy weather just now. An Anglican Church Congress and a Presbyterian General Assembly in session at the same ...

    Article : 1,541 words
  8. LORD BEACONSFIELD'S BROTHER.

    The death of Mr. Ralph Disracli, brother of the Earl of Beaconsfield, occurred after a week's illness, on October 16, at Oulton-hall, Leeds, where he had been on a visit ...

    Article : 237 words
  9. LADY CYCLISTS AND RATIONAL DRESS.

    Some weeks ago a "holdiay correspondent" described the admiration of the men at a French watering-place when a company of English girls swept by upon ...

    Article : 361 words
  10. THE SEAMY SIDE OF CONSCRIPTION.

    In these days when the adoption of conscription is openly advocated by certain among our public men, it is the especial duty of all who have the welfare of ...

    Article : 1,099 words
  11. MOTOR-CAR "SCORCHERS."

    No longer (says the "Globe") does the cycling "scrocher" claim undisputed precminence as public nuisance and public danger on Her Majesty's highways. There ...

    Article : 213 words
  12. THE LAST HIPPOPOTAMUS IN NATAL.

    All the larger and more curious creatures are disappearing so fast that this will be a monotonous world, at any rate for naturalists, in another world, at any rate for ...

    Article : 290 words
  13. THE BUND PREMIER.

    Mr. Schreiner, the Bund Premier of the Cape, is one of the most interesting personages in the colonies. He is still in the thirties, is of medium height, with a strong ...

    Article : 226 words
  14. "PUNCH" ON DE ROUGEMONT.

    The "adventures" of Mr. H. L. Grin form the subject of a most amusing page of sketches by Mr. Phil May in London "Punch," with the heading, "Some Marvels ...

    Article : 223 words
  15. PERSONAL.

    Queen Victoria is read to for many hours a day and is always a most patient and attentive listener. She somtimes has one newspaper paragraph read as often as six ...

    Article : 383 words
  16. DISMISSED.

    The forester who permitted two photographers to enter the death chamber shortly after Prince Bismarck's death was instantly discharged, without pension. His ...

    Article : 100 words
  17. A COMIC COLONY.

    The accounts of the German "colony" at Kino-chow are almost comic in their revelations of incompetence. The authorities there think that the ideal is to reproduce ...

    Article : 235 words
  18. THE PHOTOGRAPHERS MAKE MONEY.

    At one of the Birmingham cemeteries a young man is making money in a curious way. Armed with his camera, he hangs around until a funeral comes along, and at ...

    Article : 109 words
  19. POOR, BUT HONEST!

    The Archbishop of Canterbury is singular among the roll of English primates for his hatred of pomp and decoration. Once, when the guest of a country clergyman, he ...

    Article : 105 words
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