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...Author. L. H. Myers is an Englishman, the son of the late Frederic Myers, who was president of the Psychical Society-a biographer, essayist and mystic. The Orissers is Mr. Myers' first novel-a novel that, it is said, he took ten years to write...
...perfectly adequate, and turns on the repeated attempts of a man to get started on a lone expedition to the heart of Africa after gold. He gets the key to the gold-mine, and incidentally to the address of the heroine, from the money-belt of a dead Englishman whom he runs across in the jungle. First he gambles away his money, then gets blown up and severely injured in a mine in Johannesburg, and finally falls in love and gets married...
Lord Cecil, who will speak tonight in Symphony Hall, was on Monday awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by Princeton University. The Englishman will sail for home on Friday, and tomorrow's Chapel service will afford members of the University their last opportunity of hearing the noted gentleman speak...
Perhaps the question will occur to a few of these innocents abroad: "I wonder what an Englishman thinks about?", "I wonder what a Frenchman thinks about?" If it does, and they seek an answer, the impossible might happen--a few might return home with the avowed purpose of going into politics, and from that beginning attain the rarest of American titles, Statesman...
Without doubt, the wanderlings of the Englishman and the American are more responsible for the growing use of English throughout Europe than any inherent superiority of the language. For a century, the English-speaking nations have furnished the world with tourists. And since both British and Americans persistently refuse to know any language but their own, the sensible Continentals have learned to meet them on their own ground. Germany has long taught English in her public schools; the educated foreigner, once devoted to French, has acquired English as well. In North America, Australia, South Africa and the British Isles, except...