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THE GYPSY,

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For I took through the moon like a clean-washed pane And a candle set

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"Where I wake, gun-up, with a.

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JOSEPH CONRAD'S LETTERS.

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Conrad, who died at Bishops- bourne, near Canterbury, on Aug- ust 4, 1984, explains in one of these letters that he went to sce at the age of 17 and was 19. before he learned English.

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When there is so much to read, distinction in public life, but it has

there is little time for conversation: also a brief biography of the auther,

nor is there. lefaure for another the very Rev. James Robertson, D. D. For fifty

pastime of the ancient firesides, years Dr. Robertson ministered in the little called reading aloud. The His- parish of Wittingehame, in close tenera, who heard while they look- and intimate association with the ed into the wide chimney-place, saw Balfour family The words of there pass in stately procession, the Chaucer. "To lead mankind to events and the grand persons of heaven by gentleness and good history, were kindled with the example, was his business," are quoted as aptly describing the delights of travel, touched by the

character of Dr. Robertson. ›

tion rooms in Chancery Lane, W.C., on December 16.

Mr. Rudyard Kipling, writing from Bermuda, March 21, 1894, declines an offer for a book in ad- vance:

Because I have a notion it would have me pad or shirk or do something of that kind, and a 20,000-worder would take me a couple of years because it would begin at about 70,000. In an autograph letter written by Sir J. M. Barrie between 1891-1894, occurs the sentence, #I resent being told what I am to write about."

romance of true love, or made rest- After reading this little recordless by tales of adventure;-the.

There was not a public library of their lives, one feels one has hearth became a sort of magle in any of our great cities which met and known two гате and stone that could transport those was really up to date, and most divinely Immortal soula, who, who sat by it to the most distant were hopelessly out of date, Mr. themselves were a living testimony places and times, as soon as the L.. Stanley Just, chief librarian of book was opened and the reader be- the Manchester libraries, declar-

of London. gan,

winter's nighted in a lecture at University Col- CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER.

of God's supreme being.

Lady Blanche Balfour James Robertson D.D. Hodder & Stoughton 6/4)

by

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1927.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(Theo urusa-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for necasional ́phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.).

12.

BO

151.

55

59

43

NS

49

se

169:

69.

172

173

TH

115

75

©THE INTERNATIONAL SYNQICATE.

HORIZONTAL 2-8mail disk

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·11-Collega dagresi

(abbr.)

13-A number

15-Knook

16-Bshold

17-8aizai /

10-January; fleet.

22-Male being■

23-Faill.

25-Profix meaning

"again"

A

| HORIZONTAL.(Cont.)

{604Ovar '(poet.)`'

88-8urfaite

| 67-Maks vold;

|59-Facial feature

60-Nate of muslo 62-One:

63-Bonde

jes-One length of a.

DOUTIB 66-Datermine

59-Without discount 70-Pronoun 7-Nothing-

26-Part of verb. "to be" 72-Wrath

27-Highway

2-Explode

at-Implora

+--Also

25.Sorrowful

27-8ultabie

B-That man 41-interna?!

43-Prafx meaning:

#double"

44-Bat fras

48-80msthing: to turn,

over on New

Year's Day

(twe words)

40-Unit of weight

„(abbr.):

47-Froth

40Exlat

50-Untruth

82-Cerast

13

174-8. Còn, Stata of

U.. 8. (abbr) 176-Basbly

75-Atablo

VERTICAL 1-Star of authority 1-When

VERTICAL (Cont.) 2Advancement in

1

rank 27-Rapulliva 29-On condition that 30-Prohibit 22-Exolamation 33-Laminated rook

-800

36-Thick

*38–Mudlosti Instrument

(plur

K0-Flow out

A olimbing, vine

142-T.O. BORK

43-8mail: soft lump

[40-Yea

60-Flick

81-Proposition 65-Forward 184-Overthrow

58-informal speech 180mOder" 147-inon. block

68-Plant of onlon

family.

4-Part of a flas B-Put forth 7-Homeless wandaren

For propelling boat 59-Cut -Towards the top [10-A band'

12-kharp point.

[61-Part of verb "to be" [62–Boy's name. (short),

34-Mythologiomi rivar 87-Preposition

14-Possessiva pronoun 00-Fres 10-Pregada

18-Contest

20-Pronoun

}01–Each (abbr.)-

122-Ditch

[es-Perlodi of time

71-Bodium (them..

sym.)

178-Prefix In

(The solution of the above cross-gord puzzle vivill appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

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