At the beginning of the present century European hotels underwent a change by which they abandoned some of their ancient picturesqueness and took on luxury of decoration, and, what was more to the minds of American travellers, made some advance in service and conveniences. They also were built much larger than had been the case […]

If we define the Middle Ages as that period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Reformation, it will be admitted that the thousand and more years that elapsed were quite sufficient to see the development of the inn in Europe from a small, inconvenient structure to one of more […]

Western Europe first tasted coffee about the middle of the seventeenth century, and so small a circumstance as the bringing of a moderate quantity of the beans from the East in a few years changed the complexion of houses of entertainment both in England and in France. It is said that the first coffee was […]

DEVELOPMENT OF COACHING HOUSES “How the people managed to get from place to place before the post-office had a history,” soliloquizes James Wilson Hyde in his book, “The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance,” “or indeed for long after the birth of that institution, it is hard to conceive. Then the roads were little better […]

THE Europe of tomorrow depends on the Europe of yesterday and today. There are no gaps in politics any more than in Nature, for even wars and revolutions grow out of the past, though they may seem at the moment to end one chapter or open a new one. The only question is how far […]

THE disease from which Europe is still pering after thirteen years of peace is national selfishness with fear as its cause. That is manifested equally political and the economic sphere. former it finds expression in the demand for security by the group of which France is the most prominentand why France lays the emphasis on […]

THE future of Europe will depend before all things on whether Europe is to remain at peace for the next ten years. On that there are diverse views. Lord Cecil, speaking at the league of Nations Assembly in September 1931, expressed the opinion that never at any period in the world’s history had war seemed […]

ASSUME then that it is with a peaceful, or more accurately a warless, Europe that we have to reckon in the years lying immediately ahead. If the main preoccupations of the Continent are not military they will inevitably for some years be economic. And the issues raised there will be of two kinds and two […]

BUT economic recovery in Europe might come along other lines than these. It is worth while here to examine briefly the thesis very strikingly developed by M. Francis Delaisi in his book Les Deux Europes, to which reference has already been made. The two Europes M. Delaisi depicts are, as he epigrammatically puts it, ” […]

IN another sphere Russia poses the great interrogation. Is Bolshevism to spread westward from Moscow ? It is better perhaps to speak of Communism, though with the reservation that what passes under that name is not necessarily the same thing in Prague and Berlin and Madrid. Not much is heard of Communism in Great Britain, […]