...riends, writing letters in a slanting Italian hand and dealing mainly with births, marriages and deaths, business starts (in the vaguest terms) and th... ... found it the other day among some letters from Margaret and a copy of the 1909 Report of the Poor Law Commission, also rich with pencilled marginalia... ...- tience of thought, a wasteful and sometimes quite futile im- mediacy. In 1909, for example, there was a vast clamour for eight additional Dreadnough... ...research, literature, criticism, and intellectual development. That was in 1909. I judged the Tories were driving straight at a conflict with the coun... ...ch with the party on the Budget. In many ways I was disposed to regard the 1909 Budget as 272 The New Machiavelli a fine piece of statecraft. Its pro... ...vidness, that great night 282 The New Machiavelli early in the session of 1909, when—I think it was—fifty or sixty women went to prison. I had been d... ...em, what it is to feel in their blood and bodies the supreme claim of good births and selective births above all other affairs in life, people almost ... ...ut a short step from this to the ques- tion of the quantity and quality of births in the community, and from that again to these forbidden and fear-be...

...LÉRIO THE COMING OF BLÉRIOT T T T T ( ( ( ( (J J J J July uly uly uly uly, 1909 , 1909 , 1909 , 1909 , 1909.) .) .) .) .) THE TELEPHONE BELL rings wit... ...is: that the sup- ply of children is falling off in the modern State; that births, and particularly good-quality births, are not abundant 168 An Engl... ...ut co-operation, working mechanically in the common incidents of practice, births, cases of measles and whooping cough, and so forth, and blundering m... ...N TION TION ( ( ( ( (N N N N New ew ew ew ew Y Y Y Y Year ear ear ear ear, 1909 , 1909 , 1909 , 1909 , 1909.) .) .) .) .) THE EDITOR of the New York W...

...S EDITED BY CHARLES W. ELIOT, L.L.D., P. F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, NEW YORK (1909) INTRODUCTORY NOTE Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston... ...st sons. When I searched the registers at Ecton, I found an account of their births, marriages and burials from the year 1555 only, there being no reg...