Labour needs to engage positively with the unions on wider policy issues, but not be in thrall with them.

Brash wood, when tested in bending, breaks with a short, sharp fracture instead of developing a splintering failure and absorbs a comparatively small amount of work between the elastic limit and final failure

Glentworth listened to Isabella's account of her interview with intense interest, though he endeavoured, for the relator's sake, to suppress its warmer expression; but he could not forbear to ask many questions, drawing out, more than once, every word uttered by Margarita, and spoken by Isabella...

Glimpsewood / Dublin, N.H. / July 9, 1893 / Dear friend / I don’t like not to know more about you & the book too. Do you think my chapter will go in as it is, or do you wish for change; & will you send me proofs? I wish you were coming up here, as your sister astronomeress, Mrs. Pickering, did last year. I am sure there is plenty to consult about. Shall you be in Amherst? / Ever cordially / T. W. Higginson