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ODDS AND ENDS
Imagination.
The Correct Lover.
"Noo Yawk!"
The strongest olement of the Eng-
He was so completely, the correct Broadway at night is a stupend- lish genius is Imagination; the lover, of mature years; he would oua electrical spectacle, but turn imagination which has found vent bend stifly from the hipa and kiss side into 59th Street West and you her hand; he seemed better at and equalor of an isolated Negro
immediately step into the gloom: all through our history in our pas sion for the far-flung places of the kissing hands than kissing lips Street. Walk east from stately world, and in our old love of ad- In fact there were times when she Fifth Avenue for five minutes and venture and the unknown, but which had the feeling that he was afraid you will find a cheap and vulgar of her, though what he could fear duplicated. It is but a stop from squalor that could not be easily is shown most clearly in our litora-
In her was beyond her comprehen the canyons of the Wall Street sec- ture. Our poetry is richer in ima-afon. Yet his kissen were tentation to the Bowery, where anything gery, the natural language of the tive and self-consulous, as though is liable to happen after dark, imagination, than any other. Fre- he were thinking about the quality. H. M'Culloch, in "The English of his kissing. even when he was quently the imaginative element in the midst of it. She was a little. takes the place of passion (in which bewildered. His breath never we are naturally deficient it seem),came more quickly when he was of emotion, of sensibility, and often even of thought. It is at once the
near her. She still thought of him glory and the danger of English and she had held her breath and as strong, and allent, and Spanish, Art-Veronica Rice in "The Con-waited for the fire beneath to re temporary Review."
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A Beautiful Language.
Myself, I have a weakness for things French, even for things the Frenchman himself would be the first to admit are not always beau- tiful. Somehow they have wheed led their way into my affections, For instance when I see "Defense d'afficher" written on a blank wall I am at once conscious of a warm sense of well-being. It stirs me to an emotion that "Stick no billa". does not. I don't want to stick billa on anybody's walls, French or English, but I prefer being told not to in French. Why. I don't know: but there it is. Similarly, I love the large aigns' like "Byrrh," "Dubonnet-Quinquina," and other homely disfigurements of the coun- tryside for reasons quite apart from the refreshments they sux- Rest. "Pneu," which nobody wants to consume-or pronounce, if it can be avoided-affects me in the same way. Then take street names, What a study they are in themselves! I should like to make a collection of them-Rue Viande Froide. Rue de la Tête Noire, Rue Pain Perdu; names like that. Why, the commonplace could not breathe in such streets, and one could no more alter these titles than one could rechristen the Rue de Mas Bacre here in Chartres. Fancy your butcher-families waited on daily--having an address like that. Look at the personality, you can get; the association of ideas. No, there's nothing dull about these old streets, false-front them how you may. Every gable in them is a dog's-eared page of romance. Inglis Sheldon - Williams, — “A Dawdle in France" (A. & C. Black, Ltd.)
Review."
Genius.
I do not believe that any work of genius (talent is another matter) creature without another human has been produced by one human
of creation: A play, a poem, a pic- creature being concerned in the act
ture, must have its parents like any
veal itself. She had been meamer- ised by a mystery, by a little god j of her own making, but her deity ther child of controlling spirit and continued to be grandly inarilcubedient desh; the actual relation late and benignantly ailent. It ship matters little-mother, sister, lover, wife, patient servant-all was a sby and obscure god. She these have served in turn his brush, sought to cling, and he was as his chisel, his pen. But the fact stiff as a post, a kind post, a does stand out. all human experi- martyr's stake. For the piece of wood that was Fream yearned to become the young tree, and hoped that the miracle might happen, and was afraid that it would not hap pen. And the very fear inhibited the transformation, and he con- tinued to be the post-Warwick Deeping, "Doomsday" (Chesell.)
ence teaches, that it is at the light- of some, human creature's eye that the improved artist lights his torch. And then? Why, it's over the hills and as far away as his genius: can run! If he is a supreme genius he'll want no help to keep it alight. But to light it he has had to turni to another, and nine times out of ten that other is a woman- Clemence Dane The Woman's Side, (Herbert Jenkins).
The Poot Michael Bruce.
In his last illness, one. of his fellow students, the Inte Dr. Law son, of Selkirk, who happened to, be preaching as a candidate for the corgregation of. Mr. Mair, at Milnathort, called upon him. Mr. Lawson found the poet in 'bed, "very pale, his eyes large and: lustrous, but delighted to see his unexpected visitor." Mr. Lawson observed to him that he was glad to find him so cheerful. "And How do you wake these mornings? why," said he, with noble trustful- Fresti and ft, or dull, depressed ness, "should not a man be cheer- and ill-tempered 3...It the latter ful on. the verge of heaven?" most probably, your liver is to "But," said his friend, "you look blame, for which trouble Pinkettesso emaciated and I am afraid you are the ideal temedy Aa gently cannot last long.". Quickly, and
as nature Pinketten stimulate the with a flash of the humour of his! liver, dispel constipation, banfalt healthful days, he answered, "You hilloneness and sick headaches, remind me of the story of the Irish- clear the skiit purify the breath, man who was told, that his hovel prevent diarrhoea and Ldysentory, was about to fall and I answer relieve Piles: Of chemists or post with him, Let it fall, it is not free, G0 cents the vial from the Dr. mine; or perhaps his words were, Williams' Médicine Co., 60, Kinngae it is not me." Soon after this, Road, Shanghal
on July 6, 1767, in the flower of his youth, Bruce "imperceptibly. fell asleep" in death, aged twenty- one years, and three months.. His Bible was found upon his pillow, marked down at Jer. xxil, 10.| "Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him," and on the blank leat, was written-
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On Enting.
Eating is obviously one of the really sincere and first-hand plea- sures which are quite independent of precedent or tradition. It is true that people eat far too much and far too often, that they con- stantly ent hours and under cir- cumstances which must make it quite impossible, for them to get any pleasure out of It at all. (For instance, to mix food with public, speeches is an outrage, turning a pure and primitive delight into a refined and complicated torture). But for all that, eating is an oceu- pation we all enjoy and should feel loat without, I believe we shall continue to spend several hours of every day in doing it,, even if the time comes (fore- shadowed in Mr. Haldane'a Daedalus) when it is possible to be painlessly and joylessly nourish- ed by swallowing now and again a amall capsule containing all the ingredients necessary to life. A day, without meals! It stretches before us, an arid, unpunctuated waste: But we might with Bad-) vantage revolutionise our exfating timetable and menu, though we are certainly right in our present-day habit of rarely eating alone. Eat-i ing alone is a dreary and almost a disgusting occupation. One's mouth becomes a mere slot; every- thing tastes like sawdust; one rises after five minutes hectic wolfing, Bated to: auffocation, with a dull pain. But we might have fewer Bolid, ceremonial sit-down meals, and more sporadic nibbling in gardens at odd moments. We might have eggs and bacon last thing at night instead of first thing in the morning. (There is nothing fu, the world so good at 11.80, after a public meeting or a play). We might have cheese, that wholly satisfying, food, at the beginning instead of at the end of meals, when one is usually too re- plete to touch it. We might have more, much more Devonshire cream, and lettuce, and honey, end fresh toast. shrimps, wild straw- berries, and new bread in our lives/ and much less custard, cauliflower, fancy biscuits, consommé Jallenne, | bread and butter, pudding,- bam Eandwiches, cocoa, veal cutlets, and sultana cake, Is there anything except habit which induces any one |bfque tonawallow any of these things? Speaking, forelmyself alone, I can quite honestly say no.
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