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...have not the spirit to call our souls our own; no, nor even to entertain the belief that we have souls." This is the conclusion to which Mr. Farrar of The Bookman comes at the end of an editorial in the current issue. Why is it, Mr. Farrar wonders, than the people of America prefer to get their opinions ready-made instead of making them for themselves...
Later the genial Winston did his colleague Sir Austen the favor to "loan" him "No. 11 Downing,"** at which Sir Austen and Lady Cham- berlain proceeded to entertain the plenipotent signatories. A tea was likewise given to the delegates by the King and Queen at Buckingham. Elaborate festivities had originally been planned, but had to be abandoned on account of the Queen Mother's death...
...Commons by in- terjecting a motion calling for a secret session of the House-the first since the War period. Adroit, the Tories refused to heckle over the point, passed the motion in a flash, effectively cut Mr. McLean off from the public audience which he delights to entertain...
...pursue fallen great men to the end seem to have lost their grip. This latest development makes him, by any economic standards, comfortably well off. There are not lacking hints that he will occupy the newly acquired castle in person; in which case, he will be able to entertain distinguished foreigners by the score who eare to listen to his diagnosis of the war and his reminiscences of how Margot Asquith knocked his foot out of the stirrup on Rotten...
...Then he went back to law and became special counsel to the Pullman Co. In 1889 President Harrison sent him to London as Ambassador. His four years in London were his last in public office. He was asked to run for Senator (in Illinois), for President, but declined to entertain the prospect. Instead he went back to the Pullman Co., and on the death of George W. Pullman in 1897, became its President. It was during this period that he visited the Buffalo Exposition just as President McKinley was shot. He served as President of the Pullman Co. until...