Esperanto has now been adopted by the Yōst School of Shorthand and Typewriting in Liverpool.
In illustration of the commercial utility of Esperanto, our readers will be interested to learn that a Huddersfield hardware firm has sent a secretary to London to acquire the language, owing to the large number of communications received from abroad in this idiom.
We have received a letter from John Harrison, Esq., 114, Plymouth Place, Leamington. He is desirous of starting an Esperantists’ Society in that town. He adds: "It is wonderful what a brotherly feeling exists among Esperantists. I regularly hear from ‘Via fidela Bohema amiko’; from a Spaniard who ‘Sincere premas vian manon’; from a Russian who ‘Sendas saluton al malproksima Anglujo.’ A Dutchman kindly translated one of his national songs into Esperanto for me, and a Buda Pesth friend sent me an illustrated paper containing an Esperanto page. From other countries I have had most friendly and interesting communications."
Esperantists having friends in Leamington should make Mr. Harrison’s wish known.
A valuable article on Esperanto has appeared in the Warrington Observer. The author, H. Powell Hughes, Esq., of 3, Fairfield Road, Stockton Heath, will gladly send a copy on receipt of postage. We hope that many more Esperantists will use this means of propaganda. Another article, perpetrated by the present writer, has recently appeared in the St. James’ Review.
The spirited correspondence which has occupied considerable space in the last four numbers of the Cyclist Touring Club Gazette continues with increased "ferocity" in the July number. A long letter in Esperanto itself appears there, and we Britishers are much indebted to M. Bourlet for his able contribution. The nescient opponents who have taken up the hostile pen probably belong to the ranks of those who, some time ago, equally opposed the introduction of an important cycling innovation. But their literary dust will no more hinder the ultimate triumph of Esperanto than it did the rapid progress of the Free-wheel among cyclist enthusiasts.