s it not simpler to say--that when a man knows
exactly what he wants done, exactly how every part of it should
be done, and can pick a man for each task, and apportion his
requirements to what is possible; and then, by far the most
important thing of all, can so deal with the many under his
command that each is most furiously anxious to do what the
leader wants--why then, things go right."--_Westminster
Gazette._

The answer is in the negative.

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"There is much matter for thinking over in the observations of
this 'Student' who was at Sandhurst twelve years ago, and at
Oxford later on, and seems to have got the best out of both
forms of training--the unhasting and unresting labour of 'the
Shop,' which aims only at making competent gunners and sappers,
and the easy-going round of University life which enlarges one's
sympathy and stimulates the imagination."--_Morning Paper._

Judging by his description of Sandhurst we think that the writer of the
above extract must also have been at Oxford, where the imagination gets
stimulated.

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[Illustration: _Farmer (who has got a lady-help in the dairy)._ "Ullo,
Missy, what in the would be ye doin'?"

_Lady._ "Well, you told me to water the cows and I'm doing it. They
don't seem to like it much."]

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THE GREAT NEUTRAL.

I am the Neutral Journalist who wanders round Europe. I am absolutely
impartial. I am absolutely trustworthy. My perfect integrity is vouched
for at the head of all my articles. Pleasant it is to come over to
London, sell one set of articles to the Boom Press and another to the
Gloom Press, and then sit down with smiling face and begin an article
for Germany: "I sit in a hovel amongst the ruins of Fleet Street, with
the wreck of the armoured fort of St. Paul's in view. I hear a stir
outside. A wild mob of conscientious objectors is beating a recruiting
officer to death. Such things happen hourly in defeated Albion." My
series of London, Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham--all in
ashes--has proved so successful that I propose to cover all the large
towns and construct a Baedeker of ruins.

Yet I pride myself more on my work for England's Press. My German
articles have all to be in the same vein. Only the Boom Press exists in
Germany. But in England one can vary one's view and d