n: HUMOURS OF A REMOUNT CAMP.

_Staff Officer_. "I RODE THIS HORSE YOU SENT ME ON TUESDAY AND HE WAS
ALL RIGHT. BUT WHEN I RODE HIM ON WEDNESDAY HE WAS MUCH TOO FRISKY."

_Remount Officer_. "WELL, WHY NOT RIDE HIM ONLY ON TUESDAYS?"]

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"GOOSE.--Remembrance and many thanks for war dividends."--_Daily
Telegraph_.

This is the best it can do under present conditions. Golden eggs are
"off."

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"It was Tennyson who told us that there are 'books in running
brooks and sermons in stones.'"

But it was SHAKSPEARE who said it first.

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LINES ON A NEW HISTORY.

Weary of MACAULAY, never nodding,
Weary of the stodginess of STUBBS,
Weary of the scientific plodding
Of the school that only digs and grubs;
I salute, with grateful admiration
Foreign to the hireling eulogist,
CHESTERTON'S red-hot self-revelation
In the guise of England's annalist.

Here is no parade of erudition,
No pretence of calm judicial tone,
But the stimulating ebullition
Of a sort of humanized cyclone;
Unafraid of flagrant paradoxes,
Unashamed of often seeing red,
Here's a thinker who the compass boxes
Standing most at ease upon his head.

Yet with all this acrobatic frolic
There's a core of sanity behind
Madness that is never melancholic,
Passion never cruel or unkind;
And, although his wealth of purple patches
Some precisians may excessive deem,
Still the decoration always matches
Something rich and splendid in the theme.

Not a text-book--that may admitted--
Full of dates and Treaties and of Pacts,
For our author cannot be acquitted
Of a liberal handling of his facts;
But a stirring proof of Britain's title,
Less in Empire than in soul, of "Great,"
And a frank and generous recital
Of "the glories of our blood and State."

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JOURNALISTIC CANDOUR.

"Mrs. ----, to her latest days, was a devoted student of
the 'Recorder.' Her end came through continuous 'eye
strain' in reading the Conference news for several hours
together."--_Methodist Recorder_.

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"Barons Court.--To let, furnished, an attractive little
artist's House, well fitted throughout."--_The Observer_.

A flapper writes to say that she w