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for their private consumption. A well-known member of the House The visit of the American specially heavy duty of some four of Commons and barrister, Mr. doctors has been a huge success, or five shillings would be placed J. W. H. Jones, was investigated It appears and they seem to have talked on each bottle, a really heavy duty in the Police Court. admirable good sense. The dis when it is remembered that five that some time ago Mr. Jones de- tinguished physician who decried shillings will buy in France, say, elined to accept further briefs all fancy diets and advised people a bottle of brandy that costs in from Mr. Jenners, who subse- to eat what they liked struck a England from a pound to twenty- quently called at Mr. Jones's shrewd blow against the tyranny five chillings. The yield of this chambers. Mr. Joncs refused to of faddists. Much of the discus-special duty would go towards see him, but Mr. Jennens waited sion turned upon the effects of paying off the still unpaid in- for him outside, and, taking him

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at the that to-day in almost any café an, Law Sloty might take action. was not adapting itself

ad-absinthe substitute may be same rate. No doubt the vance in transport and in rapid bought that is almost absinthe The Novelist's Tenrs.

I have never been much moved means of communication, such as except in name.

by: the story of the tears Dickens wireless and the telephone, have

is supposed to have shed over the★ Lenabled a man to put infinitely The Romance of the Cable.

death of Litie. Nell; that is, if A party of guests was enter they were real material tears, and more work into a day than his grandfather did, but is may well tained at luncheon at the Savoy not distilled from the milk of

questioned whether the Hotel by the Eastern Eastern nervous wear and tear is greater Associated Telegraph Companies artist is to make weep, and not to

an interesting new film now than it was 50 years ago. to see Slowness has its nervous which is going to show the world weep to make laugh, and not reactions aa much as speed. at the kinema houses how a sub-to laugh; and unless tears and Think of the fatigue caused by marine cable is made and laid. laughter, and flesh-and-blood, are stance that art works in, they are complicated journeys in post. During coffee and cigars the ransmuted by him into the sub- Chaises and stage conches and by lights were turned down, and nothing to his purpose or to ours. correspondence conducted solely with a band playing wistful music

-Edith Wharton in "Scribner's with a pen. Think of the im- by Chopin we watched the every mense burdens which an old- day. romance of the factory and fashioned housewife carried--no the practical business at

Among London's lacks these labour-saving devices and per- when the special abip is out mend- petual anxious supervision in the ing up some breakage in the droughty days are facilities for drink of water. a "Manchester obtaining a kitchen. The ordinary man, if he cable,

:writer. Опе of, Except in the parks drinking has any

sense, can have more Guardian"

cable's greatest enemies fountains are few and far be quiet background in his life to-day the than his grandfather had. The is submarine insect call tweer, and mostly "out of action." real trouble seems to be that the ed the "teredo," which seems This is one of the things they do a special appetite for better in the United States, where ordinary mun has not always to have sense. He allows the new gutta-percha, jute, and pitch, in most of the large cities the law mechanical apparatus of life to which form the protective layers compels the provision of public In many The making of a drinking fountains. become his master Instead of his of the core. servant. The busy city man,modern cable is a most elaborate places these have an automatic who, after a long week's work, affair, and some very clever machine attached, from which gives his Saturdays and Sundays machinery is used for giving the each drinker can provide himself to some furious sport or the precious wire its protective coat- with a paper cup for individual

These composite cables "use. worry of managing a big country ings. estate, is simply asking for trou- vary in their make according to Praising Its Maker. ble. But then in every genera- the kind of sea bottom on which

One wonder's what Spurgeon tion since the Flood the same they are to lie there is, for in- kind of man has asked for the stance, a special cable for iceberg would think of the decision to regions. The flint takes us abcard instal an organ in the famous same kind of trouble.

the cable-ship and shows the Tabernacle at the Elephant and Chelsea's New Temple of Art.

experts hooking up the damaged Castle, where he conducted his On the site of the former cable from the depths by the use marvellous ministry (remarks a studio of Augustus John in the of about six different kinds of Daily Chronicle" writer.) King's Road, Chelsea, there has grapnels, each one a marvel of though far from narrow-minded arisen a temple of art, to be ingenuity. Altogether the film or unappreciative of beauty, the the great preacher had the old pre- known

the New Ch brings useful first aid to

imagination, helping us to realise judice against a "kist of whistles' Galleries, which, it is predicted will supersede Bond Street as the all that it means in delicate in church. Once when present at art centre of London. The new operations and the working of the dedication of a church organ, building, formally opened recently scores of able sets of mechanism Spurgeon remarked ambiguously, by Mr. Augustine Birrell, Chel-when you set the process going "Yes, it praises its maker very

with your message. When the well." sea's oldest artistic inhabitant, King opened Wembley this year it Scottish Ballads. comprises six splendidly lighted was known all round the globe in

Scottish ballad poetry has the galleries, a ballroom and restaur- eighty seconds. A portrait was grim incalculable quality of an old English garden. put on the screen of Sir John element: it is the only poetry per The inaugural exhibition, repre- Pender, the Manchester merchant haps which could be retranslated sentative of present-day British from whose brain came the im- into terms of art, is worthy of being the first petus that resulted in the first Much poetry is written about wind. exhibition held in the most im Atlantic submarine cable. portant addition hade to Lon-

sea and wind, but ballad poetry is don's art galleries in the present The Prayer Book.

different it is the sea and wind century. In the four hundred-or Writing in the Nineteenth using human speech. It expresses so paintings are included works Century upon the question of those dark, tempestuous forces in by nearly all the most distinguish revising the Book of Common the. human heart which are akin. ed artists of the day. There are Prayer, Bishop Welldon makes a to the elements forces of four Sargents-two oils and two strong plea for uniformity. He passion, terror, hate, and pity. demon- adds:The Church of England It is indeed complete in its appeal, water-colours - which 'strate the amazing sureness of differs from other churches in for it sprang from the hearts of eye and hand of the late master. that she expects her members to 'people, who, untroubled by our "The Lunch Table," a still-life in follow all her services with care- mental. complications, accepted oils, is perhaps, the most interest-ful intelligence: The Mass in the life in its wholeness and were too ing of the four. It is appropriate Church of Rome is a spectacular much interested in actual living that Augustus John should sup-service it can be understood to wish to pick and choose those ply the two chief paintings after without constant reference to the portions of life they considered the Sargents. His "Herr Stress Miseal. In the Reformed Non- most suitable to their appétites. mann" is a shrewd portrait of a Episcopalian Churches the ser- We, with our too great leisure for shrewd statesman and at the vices are not dependent, except in introspection-though introspec same time a fine representation of respect of the hymns, upon print tion also has its masterpieces-- the Teuton type. Twenty ed books. But in the Church of are sometimes, through an excess minutes sufficed for John to com- England the Book of Common of that faculty, led astray. We plete his other exhibit, a portrait Prayer renks almost as an equal, see tou much and often miss the of "Tom Mix," made during the with the Authorised Translation wood, so occupied are we in con visit of the film hero to London. of the Bible. Hitherto the wor scientiously counting all the It is a dashing picture of the shipper has brought the Book of trees. The old ballad-makers intrepid horseman of the screen, Common Prayer with him to were not so squeamish not moral wearing, of course, his white church. Even so, it has not been valetudinarians who reject this sombrero. Sir William Orpen altogether easy for him, if he is dish and that because of their occupies the place of honour in uneducated or unfamiliar with weak digestion. They did not the central gallery with his queer Divine worship, to And his way seek to improve on life. And "Changing Billets, Picardy," about the book-But supposing they were so breathlessly interest- Behind the walls of a ruined the Book of Common Prayer ised in the story they had to tell estaminet amid the bursting treated in the spirit which seems that they never doubted for a shells and playing searchlights, a to be approved by the National moment that their audience would tin-helracted Tommy is taking a Assembly, and still more by the be interested, too. They had the fond farewell of Mademoiselle House of Clergy, he will need to infallible instinct which all simple whom he will certainly never see bring either two or three Prayer people possess fer the right, the Books with him; or one greatly essential thing, and they went again.

enlarged Prayer Book, which will sharply and unfalteringly to the contain a wide variety of such heart of whatever it was they forms as are usuable in the offices happened to be describing giv The prohibition of absinthe, the one temperance measure ever and Evening Prayer, and in the story in a way which suggested or Divine worship at Morning ing the naked meaning of the laxed, if a bill deposited before celebration of Holy Communion personal experience. Perhaps the Chamber by M. Girod, deputy and elsewhere. He will be at a this is the test of all great Art, loss to know where the prayera whether conscious or uncon- for the Doubs, is passed Doubs which are said can be found. He scious does it come with the is the department in which Before will be subject to the discretion, shock of something actually fred the war most of the absinthe which is not a universal that through actually experienced? used to be made, When prohibi

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