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‘Never Trust Experts’

Lord Salisbury seeks to calm the Viceroy of India’s nerves in the face of anti-Russian hysteria.

386

All Things ‘Nice’

Henry Tilney teases a bewildered Catherine Morland for her lazy vocabulary.

387

The Liberty-Lovers

American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson praises the English public for still loving freedom, despite their politicians.

388

The Supreme Indignity

Lord Salisbury tells his fellow statesmen that no country should have its laws dictated from abroad.

389

Trunk and Disorderly

Arthur Wellesley watches on as one of his soldiers is rescued from a watery grave.

390

Never say ‘What, never?’ again

That infernal nonsense ‘Pinafore’ took America by storm.