School Magazines, and their Uses In England most public schools of any pretensions have, their School Magazines; and the institution is becoming common in India, though here they are …
Compulsory Military Training There is much to be said in favour of compulsory military training, although the British race has never taken kindly to it. Great Britain is an …
Fortune favours the Brave The lesson of this proverb is repeated in different ways in other similar popular sayings, such as, “Faint heart never won fair lady”, “Nothing venture …
Playing the Game in the School and the World The English are noted for their love of sport and manly games, and this certainly has an important influence on …
Chivalry in War The word chivalry comes from the same root as cavalry, namely the low Latin word caballus, meaning a horse; and the first meaning of chivalry was …
Fairy-Tales Every nation has its fairy-tales, many, of which are very ancient, and have come down from the old days when people really believed in the existence and powers, …
Manual Training Manual training means literally the training of the hands; and skill in the use of the hands is called “dexterity”, a word which is derived from the …
Mountains The mountains, which appear to us so gigantic, are really, compared to the size of the earth, only small irregularities on the earth’s surface. They have been compared …
Ghosts The popular idea of a ghost is that of the spirit of a dead person that haunts some particular place, and appears from time to time to the …
Musk The word music is used in two senses it may mean sounds so combined as to make a pleasant impression on the mind, as when we say. The …
