BENJAMIN DISRAELI. BY CHARLES WHIBLEY, COLONEL EDWARD HAMILTON OF THE HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S SERVICE. BY LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR J. SPENCER CURIOUS MISUNDERSTANDING WITH REGARD TO THE TEMPERANCE (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1913. BY LYDIA MILLER MACKAY, 273 RECOLLECTIONS OF THE EMPRESS EUGENIE. BY ETHEL SMYTH, Mus.Doc., SWIFT, STEELE, AND ADDISON. BY J. A. STRAHAN, THE HERITAGE OF THE SUN. BY RAJPUT, 542 THE MAD MULLAH OF BRITISH SOMALILAND. BY D. J. JARDINE, THE OLD SERAGLIO. BY COMMANDER H. C. LUKE, R.N.V.R., THE PILGRIM FATHERS. BY THE DEAN OF EXETER, THE RECENT EVENTS IN ULSTER. BY J. A. STRAHAN, THE SALVING OF THE ULIDIA. BY DESMOND YOUNG, THE TERROR BY NIGHT. BY AN IRISHWOMAN, THE Ulidia was a typical "three-island" tramp steamer -3081 tons gross; 330' x 42′ × 21', built by Redhead's at Shields in 1903: so much was to be gathered from Lloyd's Register. For thirteen years she had plodded round the world at eight or nine knots on her lawful occasions, carrying her five thousand tons or so of cargo-a good honest ship for her owners, and a comfortable ship for her officers and crew. It is to be supposed that in those thirteen years she had had her share of the trials and vicissitudes common to all ships; but for me her history began in September 1916 with a sheaf of telegrams in a dusty file at the Salvage Section of the Admiralty-a file entitled "Details of wrecks on the VOL. CCVIII.-NO. MCCLVII. |