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TIII3 AGE! SATURDAY. MAY 17. Ifl24. PUBLICATIONS. THE PRINCESS CARABOO.

MOTHER EGYPT. RECENT FICTION. A writer even of the quality of Gilbert her, wrote down the story of her life. Tolstoy was enthusiastic over the tale, which his dieter-in-law brought to him; 1 indeed, be was nlwayj leadv to rank mii' higher than his own works the tales which cume directly from tho iteonle." In the Thirty-eight toiies from celebrated i.il am) cases are included in C. Mm luer Stevens's book, "Famous Crimen and 4 rinimals" (Stauiey Paul and Co, Thewj stories of criminals range through history, from the time ot the biu'-autvr roiounois to days of the Kelly ng biit-hiiingerv, and to more recent -lull.

i ion-- cinni'N. None among these cases iv i.iii. ukiible as evidence of human rii and of the cam! with which the i finds a sufficiency of dupes ready haiid. than the rase of the sham J'rni- araU.n. I evcnii.g iti the early years of the ntuiy.

the liter tells, a laborer 1 1 1 (I. 1 1 hv Mr. Samuel WolTnll. of NOTESFROMYARIOUSSOURCES A picturesque attempt to assess tho visible wealth of the United StatcB lias just been made public by the Department of Commerce. According to these figures the value of real and other property had increased sinci 1012 from to 745,000,000 at the end of 1022.

In other words, there is to-day for every man, woman and child in the United States property worth 070, as compared with 450 ten years ago. All classes of property increased in money value, with tho exception of live stock, which decreased from 1 to One of the most significant increases is in the value of manufacturing machinery and tools other than railways, which are estimated at 3,070,000,000 as compared with 2.22'if000,000. The money value of the railways jumped from to 4.m,000,tXXi. The value of motor ears, owned by one in every eight 'Americans, is not estimated. tade Hall.

Ahdondsbury. (Iluucester-i, hliiw. w.i- f-ented in his cottage having with hif latmly. when a timid t. Miuiidid on the fund door.

The I wife went and opened the door, whereupon there stepped in from the dark-iiess a young woman, attired in an Orien ENGLISH REVIEWS. The fact is becoming more am! more evident, observes the "English Review" for that the only hopo of saving England from utter ruin, and the Empire ot which it is still the heart and core from dissolution, is to he found in the Conservative party. Their ancient rivals, the heirs of the Whigs, who once upon lime io8tured as the champions of iudi-: vidual liberty, have not merely long practi cally abandoned that article of their creed, but have also exactly reversed the second source of their inspiration, which con-1 sisted in their desire to abolish privilege. For when they passed the Trades Disputes Act in lUOU they created privilege of a kind hitherto unknown to the law of England, and incomparably muro dangerous than any which had attached to territorial magnates. In the year of Liberal victory and of Conservative defeat the Liberal patty celebrated their triumph by the legislative destruction of their own essential principle.

They placed trade unions above the law. From that time forth Liberalism has entered on tho path to death. The trade uuiuns, which the patty thus clad in the armor of immunity, have grown through that fostering cure until 'they bold already a larger share, oi political power than the Liberals themselves. In urging CoiiM-i vative reconstruction, the review argues Hint the reason for the lailure of the parly to combat the steady growth of Socialism is that the Conservatives have never really tried. Commenting on Welsh local option, the review suites that, despite all the lies and protestations of the intemperate fanatics, the simple fact that local option, local veto and universal prohibition me intended to be merely stages of one and the same thing, is slowly penetrating the minds of the working classed.

The side reason why the prohibitionists begin with what they describe as a "democratic" measure of local option is that they know they wodld fail it they demanded prohibition at once. That so many of thein deny this proves them to be fchamelessly dishonest. Re- aiding the recognition of Russia by the Ministry, the comment is offered: "There was never any question of Pitt's shaking hands with Robespierre, but from the lijis of our Socialists far more bloodthirsty monster, in the person of Lenin, has been lauded us one of the world's great men." Among the Empire, Notes prominence is given to the Valley irrigation scheme. The Murray Valley, it is remarked, should be as important to the world's production ns the Nile Valley, and it could easily supply the needs of the whole Empire for dried and canned fruits. Austin Harrison writes on Literature and the Policeman, reinarkimr that Puritanism has a Nelsonie eye its Copenhagen is Trint.

Its net abomination is the literarv artist who dares to write truthfully about sex. Literary offences tfnouttl be tried by a special jury of literary people. Charles Whibley terms Lenin "of the breed oi Robespierre a homicidal pedant. Lord JUeston, dealing in the LVintem- fiorary Review' tor April with Indian tctorm, states that before the country lies a gigantic task of social reform and reconstruct ion. it is nanny con ceivable that India run accomplish it without the aid of England.

It is wholly inconceivable, that she can even start i mm it unless she has a political machine capable of ascertaining and expressing the wishes of the people. The beginnings of such machine England has tried, in all gooil faith, to provide in the constitution of 1010. Representative institutions mny prove to ne teasihie in Jmlia; tney may not, experience alone will show. who knows," criticising the FaseisL rule, writes that both Mussolini and Fascism keep up and have to keep up, an abnormal state of things for the sake of their existence. Outside such abnormality, both are inconceivable.

Not even Musso lini, with his henchmen, or Fascism, with its crudities, its stupidities, and its vani ties, will he the Italy ot to-morrow. Walter A. Briscoe, dealing with Byron as politician, slates that though Byron's Parliamentary cni-eer was a brief one. had ho pursued it he might have been a great states man instead oi a noted poet. Leo L.

Tolstoy contributes personal reminiscences of the Czar Nicholas arguing that the Czar's sole wish was the well-being of the peasantry. In the opinion of Professor W. Cyde, writing in the "National Review" for April legarfling the Singapore naval base, for safety Britain should concentrato her East. Indian and Chinese units, with units from Canada, New Zealand, Australia mid South Africa, with (1) head quarters at Singapore, (2) alternative bases at Hong Kong, Colombo and Port Darwin, and subordinate bases on each side of India itself nt Bombay and Rangoon. This does not mean ignoring either Australia or South Africa, for tho latter is also in the inner ocean, nnd the former has a configuration and character which put it beyond all possibility of blockade.

L. S. Amcry, writing on Imperial ICconomics, states that complete free-trade within the Empire, combined with a common turiff against foreign countries, is out of the question, but a system of Imperial preference Which helped to dinct trade within Imperial channels. would undoubtedly tend to draw together the scattered territories of the Empire ami develop tne sentiment ot a common unity. "Americans Kimetiines Hpeak of the nineteenth century as America's ceu- tmy.

it we have nut the couraize and the determination, we can make oi the cominir centurv the centurv of the. IIritinh NLW BOOKS. In the cato of a writer like Anatole France, whose works present so ninny facets to humanity, James Lewis May ob serves in his essay in critical "Anatole France, The Man nnd His i Work" Lane, the Hod ley Dead London), that it in difficult, if not impossible to give a just appreciation of them all. The politician will be disposed: to give predominance to M. France's political dicta; the poet will prefer those works in which his poetic genius is most conspicuously manilested; the satirist, again, will declare his predilection for those books in which irony plays the preponderating role.

The difficulty of doing justice to so many-sided a writer is intensified when, us is tho case with Ana- 1 tole France, ho is apt to change his point of view with such bewildering rapidity that often withiu the limits of a single chapter, sometimes of a single page, find him playing all his parts jn turn. The critic's own estimate is that the Anatole Franco who will outlive the rest, who will indeed endure as long as literature continues to interest mankind, is Anntofe Franco the poet. Ho is not referring only, or even priucipally, to his metricol compositions, but to that largo body of one winch, though prose in form, is poetic in inspiration and "seems to re call by its subtle cadences that haunting Virgiliau music which him ever affected hint so profoundly, and which he has praised so otten and so well." The life of Anatole Franco lias not been rieh in incident, lie was born on luth April, i jiuum! on me -uaiaquais. His latiicr was a Dookse Icr ca ed lainiiiariy "i pero J-rance his real name was Francois Noel Thibault, but i-uu uiuiiiiaine ciuug to mm, aud was adopted Hy his sou. Jn the shop of the eiuor nance, who was a devout Catholic and stanch upholder of tho monarchy, there foregathered inany of the greatest writers and most original thinkers of the day, and young France must have listened to many a discussion afterwards re-echoed in the philosophic outpourings of the Abbe Jerome Coiguard, or the scholarly disquisitions of M.

Bergerct. river and beyond the family circle, the liook shop and its and the College Stanislas, there was another influence, less obvious perhaps, less direct iu its operation, but certainly not less potent or less permanent in its results. Anatole France is a Parisian. Scattered broadcast up and down his writings are passages which tell of the intimate, understanding love which he bears the city, of whose past he is so reverently proud, and for whose future he nourishes such Inl'tv A Lamb was essentially a Londoner, so France is essentially a Parisian. Paris was the book wherein he rend his history.

II is Hie exhibits, at least on the surface, many seeming contrarieties, lu reality it is, the critic argues, strangely consistent. In dulgent pity for (the follies and weaknesses ot men, a consciousness of the frailty and evanescence of earthly things, a profound sensu of the vanity of human endeavor, of the obscurity of man's destiny, of the pathos of lifethese are the deep underlying traits of his character. His mockery, his irony, are but a musk veiling a face that looks out iion the world with eyes of infinite compassion. His first essay in fiction dates back to 1S79, when he published, in single the two stories. "Jocasta'' nnd "The Famished Cat." It was not till when he was 37, that he attained the car of the public.

"The Crime of Sylvestn; Bon-nard" nt once achieved considerable, though not overwhelming, popular success. "But in 1800 there appeared a work which, if he had written no other, would have sufficed to place its author in tho lore-front of his own, or indeed, of any generation 'Thais ho wrote to plcnFo himseli, to please the poet, the artist, the philosopher, the cultured voluptuary that was within hiin. It moves with ail the triumphant sweep of a groat and genuine inspiration. It is nn epic of the eternal struggle between the spirit and the senses. Anatole France knoi life and the breath of life informs these pages.

(Sensuous, musical, with the sounds of lyres and Mutes, sweet with the perfumes of roses, lit with the glow of imperishable dawns, such is the setting of tho stage on which the anchorite of the desert and the courtesan of Alexandria enact their tragic parts. This essay in critical biography is valuable as an addition to the Bndley neaci series oi translation of Francos works for tho assistance it lends to the student of thin master's writings; and is' admirable for its balance of judgment nnd enthusiasm, H. G. Wells's book "Sanderson of The Story of a Great Schoolmaster" (Chatto and Windus, London, through Robertson nnd Mullens Melbourne) has won considerable attention from educationists ns from the general public in England. Though the abilities and the practical idealism of this schoolmaster, the late Mr.

F. W. Sander son, of Gundlc school, are beyond question, the enthusiasm of Mr. Wells is, doubtless, inspired largely by the fact that in the methods of the tcachet be found the expression of his own views: ou this a speech given by Mr. Sanderson to the Reconstruction Council in London lias a direct bearing; "Our public schools nrc professedly schools for training a dominant clat-s; tho aims, the educational methods, the school subtects nnd their relative values, the books read, the life led are all based on -this -pint.

The methods are largely competitive, possessive. With, ns I believe, tragic rebuilt industrial life, this same system, with the ideals behind it, has unwittingly been impressed on the working class iu the elementary schools. The change which I am advocating will demand a new organisu- iion, mill 1 1 can ior a new type of school buildings, and new values of sun- jeets. J.he new comer Science, and with it organised industry, winch springs out of it, must take a prominent nnd inspiring place in school, and in every part oi school work. It is not sufficient to Ba that science should be taught in schools.

Hie time has gone by for this. Scientific thought should bo tho inspiring spirit in school life. Scienco is essentially creative ana co-operative; its outlook i onward towards change; it means searching tor the truth; it demands research and experiment, nnd does not rest on authority. Under this new spirit all history, literature, art and even languages should bo rewrit ten. Creative education demands that schools should be brought into harmonv with the community life, and snould take part in the industrial and economic hie.

This means that technical and vocational training should hold a prominent and not a subsidiary place in schools." Mr. Wells knew Mr. Sanderson nersonallv onlv dur ing the last eight years of his life. He met him for the first time in 1014, when he wob proposing to send his sons to his school. "But our thoughts and interests," he tells, "drew us very close to one another; I never miracd an opportunity of meeting and talking to him, and 1 was trie last person he spoke to before his sudden death.

He wna GO years of age when be died. Those last eight ycara were certainly the richest and most productive of his whole career. It is, I think, no disadvantage to have known him only in bis boldest nnd most characteristic phase. Out of a small grammar school Sanderson created something more suggestive oi those grcnt modern teaching centres of which our world stands in need thnn nnvthing else that hns yet boon attempted. All the educational possibilities that 1 hnd hitherto felt to bo unnttainnblo dreams, matters of speculation, things a little too extravagant ven to talk about in our dull nge, I found being pushed towards realisation by this bold, persistent, hmo-roiis and most capable man.

Mr. Wells in his biography expresses a notnblr chjiv aeter, and in his presentation of Mr. Sanderson's nims and achievements, anu by his publication of his speeches, inter prets his message, nun muring ik fiennce to modern "An ifutin the Life Story of a Russian Fensaut," has been published by Geoffrey Bleu, London, as a "rail life story," revised and corrected by Leo Tobtoy. Controversy lias arisen on the question whether it wna written by loistoy mm self; in' preface to thiss edition Charles Salomon, the translator, eus now me manuscript came under hi notice: in 1883 Tolstoy brought me a notebook containing this tale, now first published in English. When I had returned it, he asked for my impression of it, I ex pressed my admiration.

He said that he shared it, and he told me the origin oil the book. At Kotchaki, close to Yasnaia ronaim, mere uvea a woman nameu ahii si. In the course of hr tinhannv life. she hftd been sent to Siberia. Some vears after her return, ifi 18S2, she mnrried the ben die ot the' vii.age.

in common with in any Russian peasants, she told stories admirnmy, nnn a sister or countess top stoy, who was very much interested in sponsibilitv for traflic affairs should be vested in the Ministry ot '1 ransport. British supremacy at sea. owing to hurry over post-war economies, Mr ueoige Aston writes in his article on Singapore, alreadv a thing of the past. Thero is no question now of a world supremacy, but uf providing the baro minimum to secure the KlllplleS sea louinonui imn. pore is close to the gateway between the Pacific and the Indian Oceans; I eylon is ltSOO miles awav from it; Australian liar- lxrs are far too remote.

In an appreciation of Ilk-hard Jctferics, G. R. Stirlms Taylor, holds that this writers cnaiienge to the worm oi mn to cease from their tolly, nnd to come out into the meadows once more where they might SCO the Still. lieu write England had almost lorgotten th coiintivsnle. AV'iiting Germany and Monarchism, K.

Helton Dclmer states that most Gcnmiiis h-iig tor a real king. But there is none among tne ueimuiuu German potentates that does not, 101 one ason or another, tail to reacu dard demanded by the epoch ot irtai ami effort upon which Germany is now cuici- It was Shelley's fate in life, writes Moira O'Neill tor April, that his best actions should shock his friends as much as his worst actions should gratilV his enemies. The foolish elopement with poor little Harriet Uestmook was much to his eiedit, but not at nil accordant, to his wishes. He was success fully mana-uvred into it by the girl legations. The human voice not deljcate llov.l.U writ nt- adds, to reproduce the modulations nt Mieiiej poems, with their rise and fall, the soft hurry, tho sudden pause, then the llood of mclodv.

Sliellev heard these things in the breezes, in the huh of the wood, by the running waters, and we have to let his poems sing themselves to their own music, and not drown it with some harsh accompaniment nt the voice. David Haimay, in The Taking of Ormnz, contributes another essay the days of the East India Co. When the eonipaiiy's men took hold of Swalley Hole in 1010 and kept it against repeated Portuguese attacks, they began to mark out tho foundations fit the British Empire in India. When they took the Castle of Ormuz, in April, 1022. they went a step forward and a long one.

People often talk ot Byron's rise to fame as unprecedented in the history of literature, ,1. A. Strahan writes in an article on Byron's Biographer. Have these people ever considered the rise of Tom Moore When only 2S he began the publication of his "Irish Melodies," which he continued publishing for twenty-seven years, and which now, and probably for all time to come, entitle, and will entitle him, to Ive considered the national poet ot Ireland. It may be admitted, H.

Minclnn writes in the "Fortnightly Review" for April, xegarding Byron's last phase, that the waning of poetic vogue ami a weari ness with his way of living, furnished Byron with motives for seeking fresh outlet for his energies. But they were not, me oniy ones. Jin enslavement ot Greece had long been abhorrent to him, ami when at lust Greece, rose against her oppressors she hud i it him genuine, wholehearted and valuable supporter. His utterances on behalt of liberty had won nun a JLiiropeaii reputation. Continental liberalism hailed with enthusiasm the vuhy leatures ot his writ mil' which had irieen most offence in England.

Byron gave his for Greece as surely as if no had fallen on the field of battle, and Greece has not lorgotten it. master, wines, is tne crying need ot the nation for greater production of wealth. ne nas crown with Urn Uilior party, and with it he, has achieved the crowning success of his Parliamentary career. Ifo in ot the party, he leads it. and he is its prisoner.

Me has to laku it as a whole, with its hefty Uolshoviks, its dangerous imeiiiKeiiisia, us I'uijians and its carpet baggers, with all that is cood nnd bad in it. "On the whole, human man who tries to serve his exacting mnsters. If he does this irom a sense dutv us In feels it, or because he cannot do other wise, as others think, it does not make any real difference." It is to be feared that the disarmament idea will never make any headway in Europe. John Bell argues, as long as German chooses to remain a fraudulent debtor nn.l lini-lvx-i thoughts of revenge for her military de-feat. To admit Germany into the League of Nations before he has made amends or given-wit isfactory that she will make them, would mean premature-habihtation and pardon.

Archibald Jlurd, writing on the decline of British naval power, observes that ten years ago strategists had to convince tho Dominion peoples that their only adequate defence against the German must be made in the North Sea. The people of the mother country have now to be convinced that the only naval policy of safety is an n. i.une iioMcy eniNi'ueing He vast oi the Panne, as well as tho othei Sluices ther outer sens. THE LAND OF GOOD HOUSEWIVES. The outstanding impression of Canada's women, from east to west and bnck again, is their interest and pride in being good housewives, writes a woman traveller in the "Daily -Mail." Yet few have servants or "help," as they call them mainly because domestic help is hard to get ami costs anything from JEI week and food for 1 he hired girl to 3 a week for the housekeeper.

let the wife, who gets no salary and perhaps not much in money, seems fairly content to do domestic work in the home and never makes her lack of domestic help an obstacle to offering hospitality v- in irieiios. "nuiw. mm mo guest is not allowed to neip iniK-n in the house work. One person every ten in Eastern "lotor car, while in tho t-neie hiv neaii. miliiy oi IUCSC vehicles, nnd when it conies in a oucs- tion of -choice between a cook or a motor car, it is nearly always the car that wins.

What is the secret of the Canadian woman's preference for a car rather than "cook-general It is partly her unselfishness, for she knows a ear will be a joy to tho family generally, but the real secret is her labor-saving homo and her helpful husband. It is the husband's job to see to the furnace that heats the whole house in winter; he generally takes it upon h'im- snii to wasn up niter tne evening men there is no afternoon tea and nlso he often cooks the breakfast. But the, most praiseworthy attribute of the Canadian husband is the wav in which he provides his wife with the latest labor-saving appliances. The house is structurally work-saving to start with, but he makes it more so by fitting in shelves nnd hooks here nnd there to save steps, having it wired for electric power, and buying tho latest little ialMr-saving gadgets. One husband showed me with pride a machine that stoned cherries at an ex tmordioarv Kneed.

1 did not say that in England we should not trouble to stone our cherries, or to slice our tomatoes, in a maidlcss h'ouso, for I knew that the Canadian housewife lias generally undergone what is known ns the Engaged girls' course in domestic science at an agricultural eolltirrn. where the value of attractively served food is impressed upon her. Thus aim will nnel mid slice ornnces and peaches, nnd even cut carrots into flower like shapes tor itie soup. "Tl.m.fa tlmt look ffnod tiisto is her slogan, nnd she will spare no trouble to serve food attractively, even in the busiest farm house. Canndian farmers' wives bake their own bread, not because they have to, but because they iiko to no it, ana they outer for compel.it ions in brnjid- nnrl fum 111 lilt 1 HIT.

fllld CIVO Salad demonstrations, showing how to make the most delicious but by no means timo-saving salads. HORSE AND MOTOR HAULAGE. For a good -many years noy mechanical engineers have lived, in anticipation of thu ultimate abolition of the horse on the roads. Whether the date be near or di- tnnf fnillt in the nrofesston hns convinced them that in this mechanical age horse haulage must eventually give place to more deimeed kv stems. To manv the iov of itch triumph would be tempered, it mut ne aummeu, wun itgo-i, mi- mum.

i inherit some of the old pleasure of the strength of a horse; such feelings have. however, to give way 10 considerations im-nnnod bv the condition" of modern life in large towns. There have, of course, always been enthusiasts hctorc time, nnu mnnv hnvft lomr cliblv talked of the sup pression of the horse. Little attention was in general paid to them, but in due course the war came, when the horse was taken from its peaceful work, its price doubled, nnd hefore normal conditions were reached agoin the country was flooded with recon ditioned motors, ana a nosr oi lorry an-vera, equipped with an army training. Pnn1 wr nn thu verm of beinff con vinced that the horse age was practically ended.

Latterly costs have swung again. We are slowly recovering and some disillusionment is with us. The mechanical traction mil Ionium hns not vet nrrivod. and. while in military movements the mechnni-cnl arts are likely to be of ever-increasing importance, in more peaceful pin suits the horse will yet be found to have an econo mical hold.

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tt V0T y.wxlitNO jfjfi Floor. THRUS. tl I 1 Caiman overestimates the nom on characters on the iniml of his public when he attempts to continue episodes in their livcs in novel utter novel. ine nousc of Prophecy" (Thornton, liutterworth London) belongs to series oi "novels of the new time." It continu-s of Melian Stokes, the Jew Sembal and the girl Matty Boscawen. On releioui of Me ban from lirixton priwin Matty agrees to marry hiin.

By tho death of old Lord Rusholme Melian Miccecds to the title. Matty hesitates to carry out her promise to him; nt last she breaks oil the engagement, and the episode closes with her intention ot joining oomn.it. ine most notable work in this novel lies, as in its forerunner, "Sembal." in the characters of the all-powerful Mrs. Nathan and of Seinbal. in the scenes between them, nnd hero in the failure of the woman to bring about the marriage of Semoil with her daughter.

'These scenes of an 'ctmiwrth mill terror. I he two characters are Gilbert Cauiuin's chief suc cesses among me "if.i novels notable in modern fiction. For sustained interest and for rough strength of characterisation Charles Christopher Jenkins's novel "The Timber Pirate" (Duckworth and London) is at least superior to the enrly work of Rex Reach. The theme of the novel is the -ivalrv between the North btnr Company and the Kam City Company for the timber ights on the Nnnnubijoti Limits, "in the arthest leaches of Lake Superior's wild North Shore." Young Louis I lammond is employed by Norman T. Gildersleeve, head of the latter company, to visit the North Star Company leases.

The mis sion is so mysterious that Hammond himself is not fully infornied of its purpose. lie is a mere pawn in tno game; no is treated bv A coy Smith, sujerintendent for the North Star Company, nt first as a spy and then with indifference. He is i.iin.oahefl iii li web of iutriuue: ho meets. champions and falls iu love with the girl fttone, wno is living on Amethyst Island, near the timber leases. The girl's picscnce on the island is it-olf tnvKlerv.

ileftlv linked up with plot and counter-plot of the rivnl companies. The powcrlul. sinister uguro oi, omun dominates scene nnd situation of an adventurous romance. Paul Creswick's novel "Tho Beaten Path" (Hodder and Stoughton London) is ritten with grace and charm. I he narra tor, John Ncvillo Markhnm, scholar and lover of first editions, inherits the old es tate of Patcham's Cross, lie finds the ht-usc haunted by the ghosts of his kinsfolk; he realises gradually their desire to right wrong.

His love of rare books brings him into touch with un old bookseller, Feutiuian; he tis attracted by Feu-tiinan's daughter, Veronica. The for tunes ot the throe nre affected by Mark-I ui 'p understand hie at lust of the mean ing of the manifestations at Patcham's (loss. The writer's digressions from his plot to comments on books and authors past nnd modern improve miner man impair the quality of his story. W. E.

Norris's novel "The Conscience of Gavin Blane" (Hutchinson and London) is readable aH piece of light fiction. Gavin Blanc finds on his father's death that he is practically penniless; he nets honestly to work to assist his mother to live in comfort, if no longer in luxury. He wins the favor of an eccentric unclet and op the lattcr'a, death finds hinwjt heir to his fortune to the exclusion of his cousin, Roddy. But though legally bis inheritance is beyond dispute, he learns later that his uncle's purpose was to restore his son to favor, nnd to leave the estate to him. Gavin is quixotic enough to carry out his uncle's purpose, to the disgust of his own friends and dependants.

The writer adopts violent measures to ensure a happy ending. The heroine of David Lyall's novel "Out of Beach" (Cassell and Co. Loudon) is named Kersey Vivian, bai bobbed hair and an exquisitely milk white neck. In fnct, she is a most attractive creature, yet entirely devoid of any self consciousness. Left' heiress to a small os-state in Essex, and to very little else, she resolves to farm the land herself.

She is aided and abetted by her strong-minded friend Janet Boss, nnd opposed by Stephen, Turner, the family solicitor, who is quite unprincipled. He makes love to Janet, she cries iu a nassion which truiiscends his, "Oh, I'll never iorgivc you this, you cad btephen has leeeived Jinny WagstafTe, a radiant crea ture, a tvimal country beauty. Ho has a 'brother, Aldred, who is ail that 8ie- (iheu is not, out should be. rurihcr, llcr-si'i- encases as buiiilf David Haul) urn. who has pair of the nicest grey eyes net has ever seeu 111 any lace.

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I llit.l I it II. i.J I inl-1-M it -M tin- St, in i ii-' ha tin- -y jt him nt ml utmly ut ins lull iniitivc imiiivc tin- tn the Aim in. 1''. M. iUv -Vl lh.it th 1 iking iiml i.1iin hit i ii'vtli in i ili.itii In.

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iln-y at tin-It ni by ii It tlii.t u.it 1 I. tlll't'-. tlnuo me for that this has hapiKMi.d the ivixlil. It cm he lfcnvti. ton.

ihat iti of the worM tin ivirliest form of wan by menus of irrigation, and that dry cultivation tlio Foil i-tnnc Inter. In wekhiR for the origin of food production it must ht lvini'tnWrt-d that Hit? lillor.il was wrtnnily the (trcne of the main tlnvlopini'iits in the Old Ptono Ajie, and that tin Kre.iU'Kt i-ivilitiations of niitiiiiiiiy, and the earliest, grew up in this reimt. In Americn there i no reason to belie vu that the food -pro -dueinpr i-lnue of enlnire (joes hack much hefore the heniuniiiK of our era. The civili-salione of China and India are certainly nf much more recent date than those of the Ancient Kast. Only in the eastern Mediterranean can dates earlier than 2000 II.C.

he Bpoken of with confidence. A conclusion which is perpetually being strengthened is that the Ancient Kast which includes Kjfypt, Crete, llabylonia, Khun, Minor and Syria represent the hnnie of civilisation. The earlier food-pro-diicinj? peoples were those of Kjrypt. the j-Kgean Archipelago, Crete. Sinner, JClnm, Syria, Asia Minor, the Caucasus, Turkestan, Baluchistan, the Danube Valley, the Italians.

Italy, and the Middle Kuphrates. Scattered through this rogmn are communities so similar in culture that, taken together, they constitute definite cultural unity, the first known civilisation of the world. The people were agricultural, and sometimes they had domestic animals; they made flint sickles; they all possessed the crafts of pottery-making, spinning mid weaving; the ornamentation of their pottery was similar and peculiar to them; in some cases they were already making copper implements of similar form; they lived in brick houses; they made implements of Mini and nlso of hard stone sometimes they made vases of hard stone. Thin early civilisation covered a. continuous area.

It is reasonable to look to some place within the area, of greatest activity during the Old Stone Age, the Mediterranean basin, for signs of the transition from food-gathering to food-producing. Since, again, the first food- producing communities practised irrigation, me country oi us origin must be one where a natural explanation can be Riven of the origin of this craft. All the avail- a Die data point to r-gypt as the source ot the inspiration. Egypt is the country that sutit-fies all the e.onditionw. The pre-dyiiastie Kgyp- tians possessed the technique of Hint working, in which they excelled the rest of the world; they made harpoons; tiiey made images of the Great Mother; they worked ivory, ns did the people of the Old Stone Age, and their country possessed great stores of Hint.

gypt is the most likely place in the world tor man to have discovered irrigation. I'or the A lie had been teaching men the lesson year by year, until one of them had wit enough to apply it to his own ends, "We owe the discovery of the importance of the Nile," says Mr. Perrv, "to "Professor Cherry, who. in a paper rend oeiore the Manchester Literary and Philo sophical Suae I in lftl, iiit announced the result' of his investigations. Professor Cherry, who was formerly Professor of Agriculture in Melbourne Uni xetsity.

wax vlntioiied in Kgypt and Pales tine dining tin. war. He turned his at- tent inn to the problem of the civilisation ni' I'vyi't. ll was while there that lie nude his great discovery which places the study of the origin of civilisation once and tor all on hrm footing. He realised that the Kile flood was of ftmdn mental importance on account of the manner of its occurrence year after year.

Thiff Hood came on year in year out about the middle of and gradually rises to maximum about the middle oi September, niter which it declines, and tin- I ally reaches the normal level in Kovcm- 1 her, 1'Vom the consideration of the inibiU of food gatherers in other parts of the world, we may be iis.su red that the early Kgyptians were collecting every yeav the grains of the bailey and the millet that grew in the mud left by the Nile Hood. Tin- harpoon, show that they were iieliveiy engaged in hshing, and thciei'ure were in ciose contact with the river. There is piactieally no rainfall in Kgypt. or, at any rate, not enough to alt cut the habits ni the people, the primitive Kgyptians would be dt on the Nile lor the cultivation ot any vegetable iood they had. Year utter year the Nile Vnlh'y would, by nieaiiS of lit pei lvel ii igation cycu-.

be growing millet and bailey for the Kgypliaiis. All tiiat would be the would be for Home goimi lu think of. the rumple expedient ut making channels to unable the water to tlnv over a wider ami, and thus to cultivate more loud. Once the control of water was begun there is no obstacle whatever in the wv.y of the installation of complete in igation MVKtem. sueli as is found in Kgypt." All the available evidence lmuita to Egypt ns the pluce where the transition.

took place troin iooc -gaiueung mou- crnilucliou, isoi oniy can il iiu bihmi ii wiih much nrohuhiliiv that the KgypliaiiH this first step in food production, and thus laid the foundations ot civilisation, but it can also be shown with equal prob-, abilitv that they invented many of the liindnmental arts, nnd crafts, or it' they did not obviously invent them, they were I he first known people to practise them, They presumably ui jh neenn-aoing ships. 'I best hunts were int ilif i.innnse or lolcliing worn ouo-j Mi nus that the Kgynuans ueeo- ed in thier industry, and the foundation of civilisation in onll ing places was primarily du. to this activity. 'I ho real urn-t i-ui of i hi-- ioi eiiiii inteivoiii sn of be Kgypt ian nukes the foundation of eivilisalii.it in other countries perfectly obvious. LADY ASTOR AND PARLIAMENT.

In an address to the National Union of Societies Mr Kqual i iti-zeushiff. Lady Astor said: "Women in politics are just like women being courted it you say yeV you are done." She had not received a reputation for being exactly 'lady-like' while in the House, but this did not worry her, as long sn rhe did not fail the women, or her constituency which hhd shown its faith in her by returning her to the House three times. So far the House had been 'down on her It was not very easy to go where one was not wanted, even in pri vate life, but in public life it was appalling. The fact was that men did hot want women in the House, and the did not blame them and if she bad been govern-intt the country for over COO vears she would not welcome the interference of women. She looked forward to the time when there would be 100 women in the fiouse, and urged tho delegates to put pressure on the various constituencies if they wished to get their bills through.

I I i -1 tn i -t i suits I tal jil, i 1 case of "Anissia," the average reader is not likely to sljare Tolstoy's enthusiasm. This story tells of the mnrriagc of Anissia to the peasant Danilo; he is sent to Siberia for dishonesty; he and her children accompany him, go through disgusting experiences, and on Hondo's death return to their native village. The translator asserts: "This simnle storv. so bare of all that is literary, is filled with an an- rient liinljeal grandeur the wime publisher has issued a translation in sharp contrast to the Russian etory. This is from the French of Andre Lieb-tenberger.

a dtvertintr niece of eomedv. telling the adventures of the girl Jane to tioeq, ns companion to Mndnmo Oraffoug-nat, wife of a wartime profiteer. John Lane, the Bodley Head London, has published "The Cathedral Folk." translated by Twahe) F. Hapgood from the Russian of Nicolai Lyeskov. Lyoskoy, a On-vernineiit nflieinl, entovd popular sneers ns writer Inst centurv: bis liternrv reputation is mowing.

This novel was' published in 1872, nnd is ranked bv the translator as "the most noteworthv picture of the Russian priesthood." Piiiit Roni-get'-power! ill storv of wotUv "Tl. fl, Jias been issued by T. Fisher Unwin i.oinion. The neatly pmduped little bonk. "Old Days nnd Gold Days in Victoria, Being Memories nf Pioneer written by "K.M'K.." nnd published "bv Edward A.

Vidlcr, Mellxuirne, gives nn interesting nccount of domestic nnd social life in the early days of the colony. It is a type of book to be welcomed heartily for its value to historian and student: it is agreeably and simply written. The writer's- parents landed in Mettmume in November, 1841; her father was for several years manager of Bolwarrnh Station, nt.that time owned by Bradshaw Bros: The writer was born in Decern tier, 1851. Sim tell the following experience of her childhood: "One day the famous bushranger Captain Melville called at the station, unknown aud unsuspected. Fnther and mother were at home in tho cottage with the children.

The stranger passed a pleasant, evening with them, being received as nn honored guest and traveller. When bedtime came the bushranger bade his entertainers a polite, cordial good night. The visitor, before retiring to sleep, took a pair of pistols from bis valise and primed them carefully, placing the weapons within easy reach of his bed. Ho slept peacefully until next morning, ami after good breakfast departed with grateful thanks for tho hospitality received. Ho took no toll from his host, though supposed to have known of the cash drawn from the bank that day, and still in the cottage.

Not long after this episode Melville was captured and placed in gaol, but managed to end his life before being tried iu court for bis highway robberies." Tim writer's descriptions of scenes on the gold fields are vividlv written. Of the Dnyles-ferd diggings she tells: "The Cornish miner, noted in his own eon try for careful spado gardening. Planted his little land holding with goosebeny, euttnnt, raspberry and other rapidly-bearing fruits. nf flno itileUiemit bovs and girls were reared in those clean, bright homes where cooking was always goon, nnn food thoroughly wholesome, if simple. Tlie sewing done by the mothers was wonderful, especially in the lino white worn bv the men of the family; frilled and pleated fronts compelled the most skilful nrt in ironing and goffering.

Davs nnd Gold D.iyn" should prove of interest to the average Victorian reader. Mr. Frederick George Reynolds is an -i-titti- nf exceptional ability, norn but has resided in Australia for many years. The son of a well-known English minter. he studied ut the British Museum and private studios, and after preparing drawings for the purpose ef entering the Royal Academy schools, suddenly decided to come to Australia and go on the land in 1808.

After some stirring adventures. which included sheep droving, dairy farming, whorf lumping nnd various other occupations, the divinity that shapes our ends stepped nnd mncio nun wnau ne was nlwnw, intended to be an artist with brains, honesty sincerity. He has been through the fire, and has emerged with a beautiful outlook on nature, and in tho boT.k "lTcdencK oeorge my (nnhlished bv E. A. Vidlcr Melbourne) wc are given sumo delightful reproductions ot his wont, aim au ex tremely interesting account ot his career hy Edward A.

Vidlcr. There are 28 reproductions altogether, eight of them being in color and remarkably well done. It is a pteasnnt incc una our mree-coior iii-ocpsr workers are turnina: out work equal to anything produced in the world. and there aro some nne examples nere, particularly Pumpkins, a decorative plate. This is a magnificent work, quite Brang-wynesqne in quality, with a dnsh of the early Italian masters.

It shows tho quality of Mr. Reynolds as an artist of power nnd decorative sense, and these qualities, allied to an honesty of purpose, a ureat and sincere love of Nature and a pitvtfwmt freedom from the influence from any school, urn tair to piace Air. ueynoins in an unassailable position among painters who are making nrt history in Australia. The book is well got up, and ought to be secured by all art lovers. "Contemporary British Artists," two Charles Shannon and Ambrose M'Evoy (London, Ernest Bonn Melbourne, Angus nnd Robertson).

We are quite in the dark as to whether these publications nre the first, or portion, of a scries dealing with contemporary British artists, or any information as to the price ut which they are issued. The general get up is good, tho information given about ttieso well-known painters intimate and interesting, nnd the black and white reproductions excellent. It is a pity, however, that the publishers have not included any' color reproduction. To find favor with tho art-loving public of the oversea Dominions, it would seem necessary, in placing before them the plates of the pictures by British painters, to have at least one or two in color, to give some idea of the sense of color possessed jy these masters. It would also add materially to riie attractiveness of the publications.

In dealing with the work of Charles Shannon, lull details arc givcu oi ma work both in portraiture nnd figure desigu, and on exninininir thu nlates one is struck bv the beauty of tho design and tho decora tive massing oi me tones nnu coior, me whole hi vine ono the impression of not able distinction. Included is a reproduc tion oi ins port rn it oi 3118. ratricK amp-bell. The sense of bignoss and importance about this picture is wonderful, and with its intricate design of curvcB nnd straight lines it is. in addition to a creat portrait, a remarkable piece of decoration.

plates in this volume aro very nne included among tho various plates nre examples of landscape and portraits of Am brose M'Evoy. Not being iu color, it is hard to lorm an opinion as to their beauty, but the black And white reproduction does not impress ono very miieh with cither tho composition or selection. However, there are same delinhtful port rait studies, including the fnmous ono of ins brother wile UMrs. Charles painted in 1013. There was a reproduction of this picture in color iu a number of the "Studio," nnd it impressed one is being one ot the best portraits painted that year.

There is bttlo doubt that M'Evoy will live in the future, mninly iy handing down to Inter, generations his delightful representations of feminine grace. In the "Cornhill Magazine" for April the Byron Centenary is marked by two articles of specinl literary intcrest--oiio by Mr, John Murray on Tho Popularity of Byron, as evidenced by contemporary men of letters; the other by Roivlnnd Grey, the Imagined Byrons of fiction, in particular describing nn apparently unique French playlet, which presents an unintentionally comic version of Byron's school adventures. Stanley Wcyman contributes a memory of an old friend of the "Cornhill." Frances Mary Penrd, a popular novelist in her day. Judge Parry tells of The Early Writings of Lewi Carroll, and Rennet Copplcstone (F. Unrcourt Kitchin) continues his Adventures in Printing House Square.

Short stories are Poker Work, by C. E. Benson, and The Churchyard Horse, by Charles Fielding Marsh; and Mr Raphael Roche contributes a second part to his Science of Medicine. Additioni to the pleasing Tusitala edi tion of the works of K. L.

Steven sou are "St. Ives," "Island Nights Entertain ments." "The Master of Bnllantrae" and "Further Memories." The edition is pub lished by Wm. Heincmann ijtd. union in association with Chatto and Windus, CnsHell and Co. Ltd.

and Longman, Green on- jjo.f,. of silk, with sequins in U.f.i vii.da lipoii her feet. Ad-ihi ji-inj tli" astonished cottagers in a low, nin-M but in a utterly n.iiii- t-i them, the unbidden guest In intiinate bv her gestures that i-i need rout and ref lohiuent. With r. inly the ottagcrrt eed b.

her meat and bre.nl and a urn; of cider; these, however, she refused i toii'-h, all the while bowing and smil- 1 big. as it afraid of giving ofience. Kvon- tuaily she atfrt little boiled rice and milk, whii-h she conked at the kitchen lire, after having her hofctess's permission by means ol signs. Ilcr meal finished, she chunsed her hands by pouring water over them from a pitcher, afterwards drying them by waving them to and fro in the air. She then said what the cottagers took to be her prayers, salaaming low many times, to that her forehead nearly touched the ground; after which she politely refused an otfer of a bed; shrouded her head with her robe, and lay down on the floor to sleep.

On the following morning Mr. Worrall, squire and country magistrate, was told of the visit of the mysterious stranger, and he ordered her to be brought to the Hall to be interro gated. In answer to his question, she merely shook her head, and she occasionally interjected few sentences in an unknown 'tongue. Wornill next took her in band: wrote her name on a piece of paper, and made signs for the young woman to do likewise. The latter took tip the pen, and xaiuined it closely, but put it down again without attempting to use it.

Shortly afterwards uhc noticed a box of paints belonging to one of the children; took from it a small camel-hair brush, nnd deftly painted upon the paper a tow of what appeared to be Arabic characters. These, of course, conveyed nothing to the squire's wife, but the mysterious stranger laughed pleasantly, and, pointing hist to the characters and then to herself, exclaimed, "Caraboo." Having learnt the yoi-ng woman's name, Mrs. Wort-all con ducted her over the house, thinking that in one of the many rooms there might be Koine object with which she was familiar, and her recognition of which would serve to throw light on her place of origin. The surmise proved to le well founded, for on seeing a lacquered cabinet with Chinese figures of men nnd women upon it, she showed extreme pleasure, and signified by signs that people were diessed in that way in her own country also flopped before a painting in which bananas figured, and made her hostess: undcrslard that the fruit grew plentifully in that country. For several weeks Cara boo remained at Knole Hall, being kind ly treated by Mrs.

Worrall, who seems to have taken quite a fancy to the well-mannered young woman. She is described as being short of stature, but of prepossessing appearance, with jet-black hair nnd eyes, full, red lips and a fresh complexion. Many learned men journeyed to Knole Hall in order to try to interpret the girl's: speech. None of thorn succeeded, and tho AVot rails began to think that they would have to he content to wail until the guest learnt English before fathoming the mystery of her identity. The girl was clever with her needle, and showed aptitude in sketching and painting, and by outlining various designs and by signs and gestures she gavo her hosts to understand that she came from a far Hasten) 'country; that she was a great personage in her own land nnd that she had been kidnapped as move in a dynastic plot, brought to England, and set ashore in destitute condition.

Tin's story seems to have been readily credited by the Worrells, nlthough other persons openly derided it. But these scoffers were destined to be silenced in most unexpected fashion. One day there arrived at Knole Hall a Portuguese named Manuel Eynepso, from the Malay Archipelago. He professed to lie able to understand the girl's speech, which, be said, was not a pure dialect, but mixture of languages used alnrnt the coasts of Sumatra. She was, he said, undoubtedly of Royal blood, the daughter of an Aehincsc Rajah.

She had been taken prisoner in a pirate raid instigated bv a rival ruler, niter a battle in which Jier father killed several of the raiders, and in which she also took part. The ship that brought her to England, she said, had touched at three ports, which Eynesso suggested were Bats via, Capetown and St. Helena, but she had been kept closely imprisoned below deck during the vessel's stay in them. The story of the ''Princess Caraboo" reached in due course the directors of tho East ndia Company. The Dutch were then pressing them sorely in the Kast, nnd it would.be a feather in their own caps if they could restore to the natives of Sumatra a kidnapped princess of the blood royal.

Accordingly, preparations were made to convey her back to her native lain! in one of the company's ships, and meanwhile, attired in magnificent dress of gold brocade, provided by the wife of one ot the directors, the princess held a spucicR of court nt Knoh Hall, dispensing royal favors, and signing innumerable autogrnphs in what purported to be Arabic characters. But amongst the visitors to Knole Hall to see the princess wan certain Mm Neale, a Bristol lady, who, nfter gazing Al her fixedly, cried out to her- in angry tones, "Why, Mary, yon naughty girl, whatever are you doing here, and in this tU.V!lft v- Caraboo tried to brazen the mat- ter out, pretending not to understand what was said to her. But Mrs. Neale assured -Mrs. Won-all tbat the young woman as a serving maid of hers, whom he hud been compelled to dismiss for dishonesty three or four years previously, "llei1 proper name," she added, "is Mary Wilcox, and she it a native of the village viil.o.-W in IWnn.hivn.

Hr fothor i ,1,1 tUZ .,,.1 it cure to send tor him ho will recognise his daughter, nnd confirm the- truth of what I am telling you." Confronted later-' by Worrall with proofs of duplicity, the girl broke down and alter first extracting a promise that her fattier should not he sent for, she confessed to the fraud in the broadest of West Country accents. Her purpose was "an easy life, such as the gentry live." She had led a wandering, adventurous existence after leaving Mrs. Ncale's servile, although she had not been out of England. She had worn male attire, and had consorted with two notorious rogues. She had good knowledge of and she had helped to hold up travellers on the roads.

She had resumed female apparel, and joined a party of gipsies, with whom she travelled up and down the country. From them she had learnt many of the words and idioms which she used in her imposture, and she had been aided unknowingly by a foreign sailor, who imparted to nor his know ledge of Asiatic customs and modes of dress and living. The story told by the Portuguese was entirely his own invention with a view to his own interest. He was, in fact, almnA as big a cheat as Caraboo herself. Except for the fact that she was not prosecuted, history does not trlt the subsequent career of this remarkable young person.

of ot An office was established in Vienna some eighteen months ago by Professor Timdler for the purpose of giving advice to persons alniut to marry. The intention of the oilieo is to preach the necessity for avoiding the production of diseased and unsound eliildi-ou. ti Ntiriiiilnto (lilt la (,, this respect. Professor Tamller appears to be well satisfied with the success of his jilieo, which is kept fully employed, most its clients being tuberculous or otherwise unsound persons. "Unless the Anglican church shows itself to be cajiablc of radical reconstruction and reform, and of adapting itself to new conditions in new days, it is going the wuy the dmosaiiriis and the brontosaurus, said the Bishop of Aberdeen at the animal service of the Bishop of London's Sunday School Council, held in St.

Paul's Cathedral, "lu thousands of our parishes we are content to muddle along instead of learning new methods and ways," added the bishop. "We learn nothing nnd for get nothing, obstinate and chugiug to obsolete ways, teaching the faith in dead language which our youth doesn't understand. Why do we allow ourselves to be bound by senile teaching Because we allow our church services to be the services of tho Hanoverian and Vic torian ages we are losing thousands who have a true longing for the church of God." 'Come back for something you've for- i gotten, as usual paid the sarcastic hus band. No, dear, 1 vc come back for something I've remembered," was the sweet Doris disapproved of the morning wash. "Ton can be sure that as long as I take care of you, Doris, I shall wash you thoroughly every day," observed mother.

"Then I shall marry early," returned Doris with emphasis. Miss Florence Warden is about to publish her loOth novel. The late Nat Could wrote nearly 200 spoiling stories. Fertility seems to he characteristic of writers for tho young, nnd in this respect Captain Breretou and Mr. Herbert Strang are following in the steps of Henty, George Man-ville Eenn and R.

M. JJallnntyne, each of whom published over 100 stories. Mrs. L. T.

Meads and W. II. Kingston's published woiks ran to over 200 volumes. "And what have you been doing this morning at school nsKed the profiteer's wife of the son and heir. "Oh." he re plied, "we've been investigating molecules." ilow interesting!" was the exclamation.

"Do know, I've been trying my best mr the past two or throe years to get your tamer to wear one ot those things I Galuiele d'Anmmzio, whose promotion to princely rank has just been announced, payH great attention to his dress, and some time ago a Neapolitan paper published an amusing inventory of his wardrobe. It included: Shirts, 72; socks of all kinds, 12 dozen; socks of quiet-tinted silk, 2 dozen; hats, evening suits, sntokiug-coats, shooting jackets, innumerable; gloves for walking, 48 pairs; gloves for evening. 24 pairs; muf-tiers, of beautiful silk, walkingsticks, 12; umbrellas, of violet hue, parasols, green, 10; handkerchiefs, 20 dozen: cravats, re. spfenoent nnd varied, ISO; flowered silk waistcoats, 10; shoes for walking, 14 pairs; suppers, soit, silent, and tremulous, 2 pairs. "It was a most successful concert." uho said.

"My voice filled the hall, didn't it indeed it did. answered hep Imm friend. I saw several noonle lonvmtr main; room ior it. Master: Jane, you really must get rid the cobwebs when von'rr rlnm.m. I've just taken a huge one off our bed post ana put it in the tire.

nt. sir, thiit was madam's new dance frock Tommy (to butcher): Please, sir. mnv ver wants a sheep's head. Butcher (think-ir' himself clever): There is only one head in mis miop, ana timt is tn iie. Tommv I'm afraid that won't do.

Muvvcr wants one wiv brain in it. Mother and daughter were exehiMumm confidence. "Tell me, mamma, how did you first get to know father?" "Why i ear, lie rescued me from drowning waa the proud reply. Then, after a long pause, loiioweii another question. "Mamma, is that why he won't teach mo to swim The last anecdote of a famous, Scotch raconteur concerns a visitor from Stonehaven, who stayed too late in tho Granite City to catch his train home.

A taxi-mau said he would take him back for ten shillings, and tho visitor proposed to toss for it. "A richt," said the driver, and tossed up a penny, which, as every Aberdonian knows, has two sides to it. The visitor lost, scratched his head, and then sorrowfully murmured, "Ah, wcel I'll hae to walk it." Lord Astor told a deputation which asked the Home Secretary to appoint more woman police that he was anxious to review the question in the light of the three and a half years' experience since 1020. He therefore proposed to set up a. committee to coiiffder the experience available ns to the employment of womau police, nnd to make recommendations on their future organisa tion and duties.

"You are pushing an ojven door," he said. "You may take it from me that the principle of womau police is taken for granted." New York business man pulled out his fountain pen by mistake for a cigar nnd lighted it. It gave a terrific odor, but lie paid no attention: He thought it was one of the kind he kept at homo for bit wife's relatives. Two medical men have let it be known, writes the "Daily Telegraph," that they are collaborating in an attempt to abolish sleep. The doctors maintain that their plan is framed on the simplest scientific princi-ides and for purely philanthropic purpufti.

The human brain is to be considered i a fttmnin battery; while it can supply elec tric energy, to the rest of the organism we develop our normal horsepower witiiom feeling sleepy. When its electricity is exhausted we feel tired. Therefore, all thit is needed to abolish the necessity for sleep is to recharge the battery of the brain. This process, it is believed, can lie completed in a quarter of an So the banpy men ot to-morrow will not go to bed of nights, they will merely sit down, apply "a direct electric current" to their brnin cells and "start another day's work." Xo one can tell how long a nightly electrified brain would be of any use to the owner. The average man would rather live the life of Mr.

Wavdle's Fat Boy thun such a one as this. Empire." The Duke of Northumberland Canadian hospitality is extra-further attacks the League of Nations ordinarily lavish. Nothing is too much i i. r' union us a great delusion." All the clerical advocacy of the league, he says. inelelv amount) in mi tnt-ilnlirin tn linilfl another Tower of Babel, which can only end in disaster and confusion, "A good word for our present social sys- i tern" is offered by L.

P. in the "Hilmcrt Journal" for April, There was lime, he writes, when theology waxed eloquent over the total depravity of human nature. Much harm was done by that practice, but not more thnu is done to-day by the-analogous doctrine of the total denrnv-itv of Ihn hocihI Ur.il. doctrines are gross exaggerations, und the exaggerations are orator-made. In nn article on Orenninntinn.

Profeswnr fJillmrt: Norwood argues that government subsists oiny oy ignoring the vital elements in man. Whereas our real life is moulded hy that which is special or unique in us, far more than by those qualities which We share with others, tho oririinicup una only what concerns his own petty svstcm. In strict theory human government and all human organisation are evils, hut at the present stage of our history they are immensely better than the alternative, for, meu being what they now are, sudden anarchy means the presence of evils uu-checked by the safeguards wherewith organised society has protected itself. Our Empire, need not, if it takes warning, go the way of the nations of untiquitv, savs Sir James Marchant in nn article bended Helping Civilisation. We have to concern ourselves with maintaining a continuous now oi souiiu aoiiuy.

we are Potter aide than previous civilisations to protect our lace, nnd ensure its continuance upon a higher level. The aim of a scheme sub-nutted by Frofcssor J. W. Scott as a remedy for unemployment is to get nt the root of the evil along economic lines, oy giving the industrial worker a resource in addition to his money wages, through letting him have the facilities to take his own food from the soil by his own labor in his spare time, nnd enabling him to buy and own his house nnd food garden by his paying, in lieu of rent, instalments of from 10 to 20 a week. The "TraiiB-Atlnntic Review" is a new English monthly ningnzine edited by F.

M. Ford in Paris. A copy has been received from Duckworth mid London. Tho contents aro essays, stories, verse nnd criticism; modernity is the note or the aim. Daniel Chaucer, in nn article Stocktaking, Towards a Rcvolntion of English Literature, observes, pertinently, that literature exists for the render nnd by the reader: that is Bolshevist doctrine or latitude, according to the point of view.

The quite natural tendency of the inteiligeutia is to make of literature as unconsu in able a thing as may be. so that. acting ns its high priest, they may make mediocre livings ana cement their authority over nn unlettered world. It is on ambition like another, but more harmful than most. It is no business ot the imaginative writer, the producer of literature, to bother his head with creative systems of morality.

No doubt he will have an instinctive morality of his own, but. usually outside Anglo-Saxondom, and sometimes even within -those bounds, he refrains from attempting to impose, even instinctively, and without benevolence prepensed nis own views upon his fellow men. The magazine is a promising addition to literary reviews. The London Traffic Scandal is attarked by Sir Wm. Robertson in the "Nineteenth Century" for April, ne has the remedy, and tho one most urgently needed for the.

relief of traffic congestion, he argues, is the establishment of systematic control over the numerous omnibus agencies which now invade the streets. This is especially necessary in localities where tramways and underground railways are available, which, but for the competing omnibuses would be used to a much greater extent than they are. The plan hns tho further advantage tbat it could he made effective immediately on being sanctioned. Re-.