16 NOVEMBER 1907, page 27

Reading And Ignorance.

i F I had read as much as other learned men, I should be as ignorant as they are," said Hobbes the philosopher, who had perhaps read more than any man of his time, and knew what......

The Coracle.

A WIDE river skirting the base of the gentle knoll upon which is situated—or, rather, upon which reclines, for it is so remarkably peaceful-looking an old place—the ancient town......