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(Photo of Dr. Schacht (of the German Reichsbank) and Mr. Montagu Norman (Governor of the Bank of England) talking things over before the Second World War.)
"In view of the disastrous...
Marcus Aurelius, who set the fashion for acknowledgments, was able to trace with brevity yet with care the qualities of which his meditations were the fruit to the friends who had most intimately affected his character...
These are three short articles written by Arthur Kitson, lifted from The New Age periodical.
Published in:The New Age, 1037, Vol.11, No.13, July 25, 1912
THE Oracle has spoken! The Mountain has laboure...
THE present trade slump is not an entirely surprising or unexpected event to certain people. It had been predicted by two or three writers and economists, and particularly by certain financiers more than a year ago, when business was booming, and when the...
This book is addressed not to citizens but to people; not to government but to society; not to lawmakers but to businessmen. It is not an indictment; it is a remonstrance. It is not an assault by a foe; but the warning of a friend. It...
We live in a capitalistic era and should uncover and appraise all ascertainable truth about the age in which we live. Surprisingly enough, there has been little or no detailed scientific research carried on concerning the gener...
There is nothing original in this book. It is, in the best meaning of the term, a commonplace book. If it fails to say for half-a-guinea what a multitude of men are saying in pub and club, tavern and train, for nothing,...
Originally published in 1922. From The Holland Memorial Lectures.
THE friends of the late Henry Scott Holland founded a lectureship in his memory, the Deed of Foundation laying it down tha...