icate sensitiveness to beauty
and to suffering which gives distinction to this charming book. Less happy
perhaps and much less in the picture are the episodes learnt only at second
hand and suggesting the technique and unreality of the imagined short
story.

* * * * *

[Illustration: THE PRICELESS PLUMBER--AN INCIDENT OF LAST WEEK'S THAW.

_Troubled Householder (writing)._ "THERE IS A SLIGHT LEAKAGE IN ONE OF OUR
WATER-PIPES. KINDLY PUT MY NAME DOWN AS A HUMBLE CANDIDATE FOR YOUR
ESTEEMED SERVICES."]

* * * * *

ANOTHER IMPENDING APOLOGY.

From a paragraph about Mr. JOHN BUCHAN:--

"It is said that he writes his novels as a cure for insomnia."--_News
of the World._

* * * * *

THE CENSOR ABROAD.

"When the High Court is sitting, the Resident Magistrate's Court is
held in a room about upteen feet long by about upteen feet
wide."--_East African Standard._

* * * * *

"CURES STOMACH TROUBLE OR MONEY BACK."--_Advt. in South African Paper._

This "Money Back" seems a new disease.

* * * * *

From an article in the _Berliner Tageblatt_ descriptive of life on the
Western Front:--

"Perhaps the sun will soon bring warm wind, and how glad one would be
of a thaw in the trenches. But then the accursed time will come again
when the whole surface of Northern France sticks to the boot of the
German soldier."--_The Times._

Our brave police must look to their laurels.

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