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C.-in-Cs. at Admiralty.
Rugby, Yesterday... There was a conference at the Admiralty, to-day attended by Com- manders-in-Chief at Home Ports in connection with the enquiry into exceptional' cases of hardship re sulting from the proposed cuts in naval pay which is expected to open on Monday and which the Ad- miralty is anxious to expedite. British Wireless Service.
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SALARY CUTS.
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VIVID DESCRIPTION.
With Wellington At Waterloo.
SEEN AT SEA.
Trail of a Shoal
of Fish.
RUSTLING STARFOAM.
+
"I have found.", ho]phy of "The Duke" appearing in of northern lights through, that
The most beautiful thing I have! seen at sea, all the more so that I had never heard of it, is the trail
a shoal of Bah through the phos phorescent water. It is like a flight! silver rockets, or the streaming]
silent nether heaven. I thought nothing could go neyond that rust- ling starfoam which was churned!
ship's bows, or those up by our eddies and disks of dreamy fame that rose and wandered out of sight behind us.
14 remarkable pen-picture of Wel Trollope, one of the most proli-ington at Waterloo is contained in le writers of his time, was in the the eighth instalment of excerpts habit of thinking out his plots in from Mi Philip Guedalla's biograf the open air. wrote. "that I can, best command my The Sunday Times." thoughts on foot, and can do во We see Wellington at the his- with the most perfect mastery when toric battle composed as ever, wandering through wood. To quietly giving vital orders to his te alone is, of course, essential." officers while sharing a sofa with Robert Browning, too, conceived a young lady at the dance. We the plot of his lyrical drama, "Pippa hear the troops marching out of Passee," while walking through Crussels in the dawn. We are at wood near Dulwich.
the Duke's elbow during the thrill. Writing Through The Night. ing hours in which the armies Tennyson was a systematic workmanoeuvred before the fight. We er, as we discover from an entry are given a glimpse of Napoleon, in his wife's journal: "He does "railing before gusts of optimism" his work in the morning regularly on the morning of the battle that after breakfast at eight o'clock; was to break him. "Nous then walks before. luncheon with coucheron ce soir à Bruxelles," he the boys or a friend, or one or two said,
Twas fire our ship was plunging
through,
Cold fire that o'er the quarter new; And wandering moons of idle flame Grew full and waned, and went and
came.
Dappling with light the huge sea-
→ snake
that slid behind us in the wake.
dogs." Gabriele d'Annunzio is Then the French attack. "The But there was something even individual in his method of com- Duke as usual, was everywhere. more delicately rare in the appari position, as in most other things....He saw the Nassauera press-tian of the fish, as they turned up His habit is to start shortly after ed out of Hougoumont put in the in gleaming furrows the latent dinner and work on until about Guards to retake the position with moonshine which the ocean seemed nine o'clock the following morning. There, my lads, in with you-let to have hoarded against these After that, he goes to bed! Mr.
me see no more of you,' and watch- vacunt Interlunar nights. In the Vernon Loder, the author of "The ed Mercer's guns dash into place Mediterranean one day, as we were Vase Mystery and other popular between two squares with an ap- lying becalmed, I observed the "thrillers," finds, on the other hand, preciative 'Ah, that's the way I water freckled with dingy specks, that he cannot work at all after like to see horse artillery move. which at last gathered, to a pinkish dinner:
"When the Life Guards charged, scum on the surface.. The sea had A curious method of working his deep voice was at hand to say, been so phosphorescent for some was that of Charles Reade. Ac-Now gentlemen, for the honour of nights, that when the Captain gove cording to one writer, Reade, when the Household Troopa'; and when me my bath. by dousing me with he had decided од д now work, they rode back a low cocked-hot buckets from the house
un deck, "plotted out the scheme, facts, and was raised with Life Guards, the spray flew off my head and characters on three large sheets, of thank you."
shoulders in sparks. . It occurred pasteboard. Then he set to work,
When the fighting was over, Mr. to me that this dirty-looking scum using very large foolscap to write Guedalla shows us the two-Com- might be the luminous matter. on, working rapidly, but with fremanders again-Napoleon, waiting and I had a paflful dipped up to quent references to his storehouse with tear stained face in a moon keep til after dark.... When I of facts in the scrap-backs which it wood for troops that never shook it, the whole broke out Into were ready ut his hand."
come; Wellington, weary conning what I can only liken to milky is casualty list, riding sadly into flames, whose lambent' allence was Mr. Philip Macdonald, who wrote Brussels, and saying solemnly to strangely beautiful, and startled me "Likeness of Exe," has made the Creevey that it had beep "a damn- almost as actual projection might discovery that he can do his bested serious business, the nearest an alchemist...、 alone in an anchored boat af sorun business you ever saw in your Much
of Mr. G. K. Chesterton's life. .. . By God! I don't think carlier work was written in FleetIt would have been done if I had Street tea-shops. Mr. Belloc pos- not been there." sesses the rare gift of being able
In Fleet Street Tea-Shops,
to write a poem and carry on A conversation at the same time.
of becoming. à lave of the
Carlyle hated noise, and had bacco habit, but some years ago special noise-proof room construct- ed in his house at Chelsen. As a constrast to this, Mr. Edward
work to the accompaniment of gramophone.
#1
Another sight worth taking a
Voyage for is that of the sails by moonlight.
Our course was "south and by east, half south," so that we seemed bound for the full moon as she rolled up
over our wavering to-horizon. heward to the bowsprit and look back. Then I used to go for
Our ship was a clipper, with every rag eet, stunsalls, sky-scrapers, and
conceived the idea of using a special denicotinized preparation.
"HIS.
Shanks, the poet, does some of his pipe," writes. M. Gerard Harry, all; nor was it easy to believe that
the such "Is still always alight when
a wonder could be built of pen is busy, but it is hardly more canvas as that white many-storeyed now than an Innocent subterfuge pile of cloud that stooped over me Maeterlinck's Pipe.
intended to cheat and so satisfy anor drew back as we rose and fell Maurice Mæterlfuck can never irresistible mechanical craving." with the waves.-James Нивел write unless he has a pipe (u his | Another literary devotes of the Lowell, in "Leaves From My mouth. He was formerly in danger pipe is, of course, Bir James Barrie. Journal":
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