THE BATHS OF THE PYRENEES It is remarkable how the travelling population of England are apt to follow one another, like a flock of sheep, all going to Switzerland or the Rhine, because it is thought the right thing to do, and not because those countries are preferred as a matter of taste. I admit [...]
SOME CURIOUS FISHES Among quadrupeds, there is one peculiar group represented by the kangaroos and phalangers of Australia, and the opossums of America, (Marsupialia), the females of which are provided with a pouch, or a fold of the skin less decided than a pouch, in which the prematurely born young are reared from a period [...]
FRIEND ALUMINIUM’S FAMILY CHICLE SECOND PAPER In our previous paper we traced the developments of the manufacture of that crockery which is white throughout; we will now take a glance at the history of crockery having a white surface only. Amongst the numerous arts which the Saracens brought with them into Europe, that of making [...]
MANCHESTER ART TREASURES FIFTH PAPER – WATER-COLOURS, PRINTS, AND PHOTOGRAPHS The art of painting in water-colours, so far as it possesses any claim to real excellence, may be regarded as having been up to a very recent period exclusively an English art. The water-colours of other nations have generally ranked with their cartoons or rough [...]
A CONSIDERATION FOR THE YOUNG One sin draws after itself many more. Take a few illustrations – Joseph’s brethren envied him – that was a great sin; then they stripped him of his beautiful coat and cast him into a pit – another sin; then they sold him to the lshmaelites; still another – then [...]
SECRET FAULTS If secret faults are indulged, they will sooner or later break out, like smothered fires, and the true character of the heart will be developed. Fires uncap a mountain because they have been long accumulating, and can be confined no longer. Streams that flow far under ground, somewhere, though far from the fountain, [...]
ELECTRIC ANIMALS Kind readers do not fear that I am going to write about pith balls and brass discs, prime conductors elcctrophori, and in short a thousand other technical things belonging to electricity – nothing of the sort. Indeed I am just at this time in no mood to philosophise deeply myself. Sitting alone before [...]
DREAMS AND DREAMING. III.—WHEN WE DREAM—DURATION OF DREAMS— DREAM PHASES. The opinion was a long time entertained that dreaming lasted during the entire duration of slumber—that the mind was never inactive, but was constantly on the alert, and even when the body was sound asleep was occupying itself with successive trains of thought, altogether distinct [...]
The amount of the material damage done in the invaded districts has been the subject of enormous, if natural, exaggeration A journey through the devastated areas of France is impressive to the eye and the imagination beyond description. During the winter of 1918-19, before Nature had cast over the scene her ameliorating mantle, the horror [...]
Politicians always have lied and always will lie. But Romney has been lying constantly. His party has been lying constantly. It has reached the point that even the extremely reluctant media have gone from running “X said p, Y said ~p”-style reporting to occasionally running “X lied and said p“-style reporting. I get that the [...]