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One got the old journalist's first on Janus perlances was to make inquiries about an
Kent eminent Scots minister who had charge of
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a large church in South London. He says: Morlin I was despatched in a cab between ten and eleven at night. When I got to the residence, I falled to make any one answer Monmouth the door. At length I saw x head poering. Moorhan. out of a window, and after apologising for Newcastle the lateness of the visit, I explained what Nightingale I came for "No,” said a female voice, Otter
the minster's no' daid yat; but ye may Rosario safely fit it in the paper, for he'll be died before the morning.”
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at the callway station, the hotel,giest choroughfares of London. Fe hapa | Fumo or the quiet country villages where the Strand would run it cives in some Flors.
Bab it in all vory am respects, but Press Land, and Stage, Land Handy sing. They are thoroughly in love with are closely allied. one another, and of course the world for them is bathed in roscate hues and every prospect plonsis. Withal they have much commossened to come and go spon and when they Bnally settle down in a Suffolk village with a wonderful old English sheep dog camed Bobs, and a diminutive pony named Habbakuk se companions and cine fidants, the reader" is propared to spend some further vory" piensant hours in their society. And the promiss of a good time is amply fulfilled. Of course it is only the trivial round of an ordinary, well-to-do middle-class family's life that is described, but the writing is so well done, that the koen zual which they and their friends take is everything which concerns themselves is infections. In the end one, begins to feel that after all there are phases of life in England which still make it one of the swoutest and most wholesome place to resideix, all the modern soul and sex problem novela to the contrary, 158 And when the younger sister Lucy broaks in upon the housymomars she adds but to the joy of their existence, especially when she becomes an “object of desire on
equally athletically-inclined barrister, We will not divulge who wins the charming. girl sufice it to remark that she was well worth winning. The book is one to read.
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I knew a minister who had been trying. (says the journalist), for many years to get a church in London. At length hagut a
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call," He replied that he would make Tamar it a matter of Providence and prayer. The Teal leaders of the church complained that the Thistle minister was rather dilatory in giving an Virago answer, and a night or two afterwards, the Waterwitch
Whithing minister stopped into the office in Floet Street. "Look here," said I. "if your pray muckle mair about it, you'll lose the kirk a thegither." "O!" replied the minister, "I'll telegraph my acceptance at once."
Reminiscences aru" given of two well. 36 knowa Ecottish journalist and literatours 37 William Black and William Sharp. They 38 had, he says, though diverse in personal Siguro, much in common in their impulses.. They Leth disclosed constant passion Black was thin, for the Highlands. dapper man, very dainty over his drasa. His attire was always neat and stylish; suggesting Poolo's. He was never without spectacles, and with these on a Sinaly shaped head he recalled the French states- mig, M. Thiers. Black had distinctive social as well as high intellectual qualitios but as a public speaker he was hopok st. When he replied to a toast one could scarcely bear a word,
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The Surgeon's Loy, being Impressions of the Far East, by J. JOHNSTON ABRAHAM; London, George Ball and Sons. The great charm about this book is its simplicity. The writer wakas no attempt at producing "purple patcher," but telle straightforward tafe, irradiated by some dashes of Irish bumour, from the time he joins the Blue-funnel steamer as Liverpool till again the ship is heading homeward bound. His naive enjoyment of life under
One story about Black tells against that Kaiser Franz Joseph 1 Austr-Hungarian cruiser the strange conditions in which be found himself is very delightful, and en are the much maligned individual in journalistic deft touches by which he produceq for our circles, the sub-editor. In the Isto sover" montal delectation "the Old Bian," the ties, Black was engaged to do a description Chief, and other of the officers and crow of the University Boat Race for agrest of the Clytemnestra. They wore a happy provincial paper. It had to be telegraphed. Decidéo. ship's company and who shall condemn A technical account of the race by another them for occasionally "lling-up" the writer had been placed on the wire first, Surgape with descriptive material but in order to make way for Black it wa Vigilante for a log which he aaksequently withdraw. Somehow the sub editor at Peiho thought good enough to print. It the other end was not aware of the pro- is also transparent to any old Straits codore. After about a column had beca or Chins hand that wo laugh with wired of the novelist's pictorial description, the perpetrators of the jokes and can only the following message came over the wire Esturgeon
Lynx hope that in time the Surgeon will ako"Don't send us any more of this rub-
bish; let us have Black." realise how neatly he has been had.
William Sharp, says the writer, was a Perio Of cours under the circunstances of his pictntesque &gure; no finer built man was voyage it is but reasonable to "make to be seen in Fleet Street. His adoption Protes
of "Fiona Macleod" as a nurce for certain allowance for a fow harmless blunders, as for instance his pretty piece of moralising Fleet Street there was a deep-seated
portions of his works raised much curiosity. Styx*
Fronde at Shimonoseki where he wonders why impression that Sharp was "Fiona" but many policemen and lock-ups hava bean provided for a population that never seeds he never gave the slightest ground for the d'Ibervie
was rigidly Takou. to be sent to prison! Shades of the Prison suspicion, and the socres
maintained til his death. Statistics of Japan defond ver
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do not indulge in emlarfiting toples of Major-General H. Bower, now in com. Mousquet conversation with a casual English stranger even if he is an old friend of their mand of the Assam Brigade, who has been-Yaubaa brother's, nor would they copy the man-appointed to command the Abor Expedi
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book is eminently resdable. It faithfully in junior and minor capacities. He first pourtays the state of mind in which the came into prominence as an explorar and
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bis homesickness, his sentimental longings to get back Home as quickly as he says the Calcutta Englishman, the secrets of Gneisenau cat, (and yet how soon he tires of Home- the Intelligence Department in. Indis are tin life and rejoices to get back to blog water well kept, it is known to a few that young Jaguar and the long, lazy days of the tropic mas
Bower was stone time: despatched to | Leipzig after a spell ashore), and the strange Turkistan to chase and arrest a Turcomani
Lucha notions the sailor entertains regarding named Yar Khan, who had murdered
The Naraburg people with coloured skins and of folks British traveller, named Dalgleish, ashore generally The descriptions of chase wis long and serore,
Jesting
(maux / Otter life aboard, of trips ashore at various ports months up and down the Contral Asian
Scharnhora and the passing huzoours of the day aro al steppes. Yar Khan finally despairing of well done, and wo sap quite imagine that shaking of his pursuer committed suicide. 8. 90 the Surgeon often longa in the dreary This, affile was much discussed ia monotony of a London practice, to be back the Central Asian Barara, Major Bower's onca more in the ccay saloon, or stretched next feat www to treral ove:land Tiger out in a deck chair under the awnings of the from India to Peking. In the course Tsingtaui good ship Clytemnestra while the Chief" of this journey he discovered what Vaterland philosophises or the Old Man" distils is known as the Bower manuscript." the axioms of weighty wisdom.
scratchings on birchhark which revealed for the first time the ancient civilisation of
Lof the desert of Khotan. When in Peking Major The decision of the Admiralty to send Bower, set to work to loam, Chinese, and Macao Dreadnought craiser as flagship of the his knowledge of the language and of the Patris. China Squadron will be harbiy welcomed people led to his
and comdand; the lector to raise 1565 by British residents in the Far East, and which was to garrison Wai-hai-wei
Chinese Regiment, by every one having interests in that part of world. In spite of the fact that the Anglo-Japanese Alliance was held to rondor it unnecessary for us to kepp such a power- ful squadron, as formerly in those matera, there were a good many people who questioned the wisdom of reducing the feet to the dimensions of recent years. By replacing the Minotaur. with the Indomit abis. the fighting powers of the China Sgandron will be materially, strengthened. The Indomitable is regarded na a splendid stoaming ship, being capable of 18 knots per hour. Moreover, she is armed with eight 12-in, guns of the new pattern. She will be the first powerful modern ship to be seat to the China tation. It is nutar stood that there are to follow, an our fioek there is to be rassodelled and greatly strengthened and 0. Express, MPE
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