(1) At about the same time their number was 573,981 in the eastern half of Sikang Province, including nineteen districts east of the Kin-sha River; (2) and 321,945 in the western half.

It is stated that a well-known London firm has decided to employ lady commercial travellers. I should suppose that the success of this attempt will depend, in some measure, upon the share of good looks possessed by the travelleresses.

Max Beerbohm, in a remarkably insightful review in Vanity Fair, specifically took on the De Profundis is radically different reading of Wilde: "Some of the critics, wishing to reconcile present enthusiasm with past indifference. . . have been suggesting that De Profundis is quite unlike any previous work of Oscar Wilde - a quite sudden and unrelated phenomenon.

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