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Recognition
By John Buchan
Just as Richard Hannay was steeling himself to report failure in the hunt for a German agent, a stranger’s eye caught his own.
326
Lost for Words
By Sir Henry Morton Stanley
Welsh journalist Henry Stanley is despatched by head office in New York to find a missing British explorer.
327
The Machinery of State
Human beings should not be frantic cogs spinning away in the Government’s factory of Progress.
328
A Confiscation of Property
By Anne Brontë
Arthur Huntingdon discovers that his wife is planning to leave him, and take their little boy with her.
329
Cat O’Clock
By Évariste Régis Huc
On his travels through China and Tibet, Roman Catholic missionary Évariste Huc came across a novel way of telling the time.
330
Revolution and Reaction
John Buchan draws a distinction between political changes brought by violence and those brought by progress.
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