tists,
philosophers and teachers been that the "everyday people" _do_ live as
deeply and broadly as the thinkers and artists? They are inarticulate
and cannot tell what they see, but to them life is made amusing, or
interesting, or consecrated according to their temperament.

Who can say what the Cornish sea means to that tired worker? At least
it seems a boldness that is almost insolence to decide what it did
_not_ mean to her!

Has not every life its revelations? Is it not because we do _not_ see
as God does that some one particular life which strikes across our
path cannot reveal its revelation over again to us?

Surely "the commonplace is the highest place." Or rather, there are no
hierarchies of the soul. Artist or seamstress or carpenter, we live by
the glory that flows to us through whatever curtains of environment
are round us.

I have not a word of criticism for the writer's ideal. All that I
would suggest is that the ideal is really present in the world,
"common" as the "everyday" flowers at his feet. Not all can sing or
paint or write, but many more can laugh or run and all, perhaps, can
love and pray.

L.E. HAWKS.

ON LEARNING TO BREATHE.[18]

[18] This is article has been specially written as a preface for
_Health Through Breathing_, by Olga Lazarus, shortly to be published
(1s. net).

To breathe correctly and sufficiently is to live more healthily. This
dictum is incontrovertible, and it becomes my pleasant duty herein to
demonstrate its truthfulness. And, after a careful perusal of the
hundred exercises which the authoress has so clearly and succinctly
described, I am still more convinced of the very great, one might
almost say of the tremendous, importance of deep-breathing exercises.
What has struck me so forcibly in this little book is the fact that
there is no undue enthusiasm evident; no embellishment of the subject;
no extravagant claims for the system advocated; just a plain sane,
sober and intelligent description of procedures of immense value to
all who would either keep, or improve, their health. The authoress
has, as it were, laid before the reader a feast of good things in the
way of physical culture, and leaves it at that. She seems to have
brought into purview a splendid variation of the exercises, and indeed
every mode of breathing and exercise likely to be beneficial--to those
in health as out of it.

Reverting for a moment to the supreme importance of the subject, I m