The established English playwrights are almost without exception showing signs of artistic exhaustion. There has not been a single infusion of new blood. But our playwrights, even at their best, do not reach the level of the English authors.— John Corbin, in Sun, New York. Why do trials last so much longer than they did? That they have grown more protracted cannot be doubted. Lord Justice Yaughan Williams is candid enough to admit that judges, as well as barristers, talk rather too much.Law Journal. It is almost ridiculous to' notice how great an influence Eton exerts over the outside world. We do not wish. to boast of this influence; it may, in fact, be a disadvantage to the school that it does attract so much notice.—Eton College Chronicle. Some say that some men do not count their strokes correctly at golf, but this is mere arithmetical inefficiency, under a strong unconscious bias.—Andrew Ls-ng, in Longman's Magazine..
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12928, 26 July 1905, Page 1 (Supplement)
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156Page 1 Advertisements Column 6 New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12928, 26 July 1905, Page 1 (Supplement)
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