Reading Newspapers Nowadays, when all are more or less educated, almost everybody reads some daily paper or other. A man who never reads a newspaper cannot keep in touch …
Ambition The general view of ambition is expressed in the words which Shakespeare put into the mouth of the ambitious but fallen Wolsey to his ambitious and rising successor …
Aseptic Surgery It is no exaggeration to say that Lord Lister. the great English surgeon, has saved millions of lives. Without his wonderful discoveries, many of the operations performed …
Do Writers Write for Money? Every man who embarks on the perilous profession of writing has to prepare himself for a punishing job. But, if he is honest, he …
The Cinema as a Rival of the Stage The cinema is now a very popular form of entertainment, and even the smallest town has now its “picture-house”. In the …
A Righteous Man Regardeth the Life of His Beast In England the cruel treatment of animals is a crime punishable by law: and there is a “Society for the …
Is Life for us Better than it was for our Forefathers? To try to answer this question, we had better go back in thought about two hundred years, say …
The Pleasures of Reading Says the poet “My days among the dead are past Around me I behold Wherever these casual eyes are cast The mighty minds of …
Safety First “It is a well-known fact”, wrote Robert Louis Stevenson, “that an immense proportion of boat accidents would never happen if people held the sheet in their hands …
The Place of Illusion in Art All art is based on the willing acceptance of illusion. You look at a landscape painting. You know that it consists of paint …
