ire, misery and murder. How's that for alliteration? Why,
within five minutes' walk of me there are the loveliest houses,
with gardens back and front, inhabited by very fine people and
furniture. Many of my university friends' mouths would water if
they knew the income of some of the shop-keepers in the High Road.

"'The rich people about here may not be so fashionable as those in
Kensington and Bayswater, but they are every bit as stupid and
materialistic. I don't deny, Lucy, I do have my black moments, and
I do sometimes pine to get away from all this to the lands of sun
and lotus-eating. But, on the whole, I am too busy even to dream of
dreaming. My real black moments are when I doubt if I am really
doing any good. But yet on the whole my conscience or my
self-conceit tells me that I am. If one cannot do much with the
mass, there is at least the consolation of doing good to the
individual. And, after all, is it not enough to have been an
influence for good over one or two human souls? There are quite
fine characters hereabout--especially in the women--natures capable
not only of self-sacrifice, but of delicacy of sentiment. To have
learnt to know of such, to have been of service to one or two of
such--is not this ample return? I could not get to St. James' Hall
to hear your friend's symphony at the Henschel concert. I have been
reading Mme. Blavatsky's latest book, and getting quite interested
in occult philosophy. Unfortunately I have to do all my reading in
bed, and I don't find the book as soothing a soporific as most new
books. For keeping one awake I find Theosophy as bad as
toothache....'"

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"THE BIG BOW MYSTERY SOLVED.

"Sir--I wonder if anyone besides myself has been struck by the
incredible bad taste of Mr. Grodman's letter in your last issue.
That he, a former servant of the Department, should publicly insult
and run it down can only be charitably explained by the supposition
that his judgment is failing him in his old age. In view of this
letter, are the relatives of the deceased justified in entrusting
him with any private documents? It is, no doubt, very good of him
to undertake to avenge one whom he seems snobbishly anxious to
claim as a friend; but, all things considered, should not his