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Even _The Nation_ is not quite satisfied with the Government, and has been alluding to "the extreme slackness of Cabinet methods," and complains that "situations are not thought out beforehand." The Government, apparently, is now taking the lesson to heart, for _H.M.S. Foresig...
Even _The Nation_ is not quite satisfied with the Government, and has been alluding to "the extreme slackness of Cabinet methods," and complains that "situations are not thought...
3. Chapter 3Almost the last thing that you expect in a starting-price bookie is a strong penchant for poetry. It is true that I have before me, as I write, a Turf Commissioner's telegraphic...
2. Chapter 2"Do think, Samuel," I interrupted, "how much more splendid if you could be the only man who had seen Monte Carlo without going inside the rooms. And then when the hairdress--whe...
4. Chapter 4The name of Mr. GORDON GARDINER is unfamiliar to me; but I have little doubt that if _The Reconnaissance_ (CHAPMAN AND HALL) is a first novel its author will improve upon work t...