s with the sudden death of her husband, and the
first of the ecstatic visions that compelled _Sarah Eden_ to leave her
native country and prepare a place for her Divine Master in the home of
His first coming. Thenceforward the scene is in Jerusalem, where _Sarah_
establishes herself at the head of her strange little company of
fanatics. You can see how large is the plan of such a tale; it is one of
which you could not reasonably expect a wholly satisfactory ending, and
to my mind the latter portion is the weaker. But there are some
delightful scenes of life in modern Jerusalem. And _Sarah Eden_ herself
remains always a profoundly moving personality. For her alone the book
deserves to be called "a novel of great distinction."

* * * * *

BEHIND THE SCENES IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

[Illustration: Municipal inflator preparing a coachman for an important
public function.]

* * * * *

A CRY FOR GUIDANCE.

(_In a weekly paper, a correspondent--presumably in the first
raptures--recommends falling in love as a cure for all worries._)

It is all very well to go talking like that,
But tell me, pray, how does one do it?
How feel at the sight of a hobble or hat
A passionate impulse to woo it?
I'm eager enough of my woes to be rid,
But Cupid needs help in the placing
Of shafts in a heart that's apparently hid
'Neath a tough pachydermatous casing.

I have mingled with maidens--the tender, the hard,
The coy and the clinging--in legions;
But none has contrived to inflict on the bard
A jolt in the cardiac regions;
Must I turn for assistance to science or art,
Or put my predicament meekly
To "Mona" who handles affairs of the heart
In _Sensitive Simperings_ (weekly)?

Your wonderful cure, my beneficent lad,
For me, who am ready to try it,
Is robbed of its worth by your failure to add
A hint as to how they supply it.
So nice a prescription I'm anxious to trust;
'Tis milder than pills or emulsion;
But I can't _fall_ in love; I require to be thrust,
And you ought to supply the propulsion.

End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol.
146, February 11, 1914, by Various

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