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GENERAL NEWS.

Spain and Japan.

The Spanish Senate on 5th ult. approved the report on a Bill

A NEGLECTED

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A Tragedy of Forgotten Files.

"I have spent two days in the

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Museum in Hendon," writes Siri An Interesting at Home. An At Home was given on June W.R. Nicoll in the "British Week- 5 by the Belgrave Ladies' Club, ly." "There are but few whose past and present, who had lived business or pleasure takes them in, or were home from, the Straite Fettlements and Federated Malay to the spot. Perhaps a dozen States. Lady Birch, who receiv-persons or twenty in a week may ed the guests, is president of the pass through its great catacombs. alub, which she hopes to make "To a journalist the sight is the acknowledged headquarters of worton home from the Straits suggestive of many thoughts, and Settlements and Federated Malay it is of the vanity rather than of the States, and her efforts have al- glory of his profession that he is ready met with much success. A

tempted to think. Looking at *dinner was arranged for 26th ult,

when Lady Birch, was again to be these huge and innumerable volumes, be cannot but think of the toil and thought that have been spent on them, and about the appareut end of all. There are thousands amongst these huge books which no one has ever opened, or ever will open again. The writings have withered like the grass of the field ne sont as the day or week of their allotted existence was over. -

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Cancer Research. Anxious to establish» memorial to his brother, the late Mr. William James, and recognising the im- perative necessity that every effort should be made to discover the cause and cure of cancer, Mr. Aribar James has decided to devote the income of £20,000 to the Middlesex Hospital, an in- stitation which closely combines clinical and pathological research on the disease. Mr. William James, who died in March of last year, was an intimale friend of King Elward. He lived at West Dean Park, Chichester.

"Still more melancholy is the fact that even when the books are opened they tell nothing, or at best very little about their writers. To old days, the anony-

The King at the Wheel. ous system prevailed so strongly "The King never drives a that this authorship of articles was motor-dar," says Captain the llon, not only concealed, but was oven Sir Charles Wentworth Fitzwila jealously guarded secret. The liam, the Crown Equerry, in so vast majrity of men,

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President Yuen. According to the Far Eastern Agency, saya the London and

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After several hours' debate in share in the writings of these crowded houses the General A China Express," the President of papers their aspect brings back semblies of the Church of Scotland

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"As I walk through the British the year the Church of Scotland ever, that the report of his wil Museum room I see not a few Committee will draw up a draft sanguine member of either As- of lenses that will relieve an

constitution which shall be satis sem bly believed that a vnanimous lingness to accept such a post papers in which I could identify factory to the United Fres Church finding would ts reached even in trouble. The only charge is for lacked foundation, and anggested some of the contributors. There that it emanated from the same is Thackerary, for example. There basis of union, embodying the one Assembly, much less in both. the glasses. Bource which credited him recentis Meredith, there is Barrie, there Auld Kirk "ideal of a National Yet, to the general amazement, ly with the intention of spending is Frederick Groonwood, there is United Free ideal of spiritual in

Church on the one hand and the this outcome has been sohieved": his spare time as King of Albania. Charles Cooper, and there is depenes on the other.

many another who has since von Church of Scotland would thes A new historical novel entitled fame in other fields. But one seek to have that embodied ia "Detained by the King," the work who disclosed the work of their Church of Scotland also stipulates datos for the new business diplo- Note:

of these would thank anyone Act of Parliament, The

an of Mr. Arthur Malthy, a Wast End tailor, and dealing with the obscurer years. And, after all, that her religious endowments me at Oxford University must life of Judge Jeffreys, has been the speaker, too, even the got shall be conserved for religious have passed all examinations nec added to the royal library at

essary to the B.A. degree. Buckingham Palace. "I find life. Many a Cabinet Minister purposes.

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short

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a tailor in four days of the week," tionary of National" Biography saye Mr. Malthy. "From Friday for the good reason that no one night till Tuesday morning I now takes the smallest interest devote my time to art and litera in his career. Great lawyers, taro, the two things which are wealthy business men, and others nearest my heart. Det sined by prominent in their hour are swept the King is my third novel. Atay into forgetfulness even as

is a journalist," present I am engaged on a ro- mance on the love affairs of Ed. ward IV. I was inspired to write chiefly by my literary clients."

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