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HORIZONTAL (Cont) 61-Mals descendant 62-Sorrowful

HORIZONTAL

1-To originata, as a

word

4-An anglent writing

instrument

B-A foray 11-Famaya Italian

artist

13-Mohammedan

prince

63-An animal's thigh |65-A large inaka

07-Moisture in minute

dropa 69-Scoular

71-To' entreat

15-A Gresk Inhabitant | 73-8cene of famous

of Italy

17-The flesh of dear

19-Profix Not

20-A kitchen utensil

21-Conjunction

22-To scrutinize

23-Article

26-A number

27-SutEx, Pertaining to

28-A New Zealand

native

30-Revolutionist

English counell 74-Matrio measure of

capaalty 75-Three-spot domine 76-An anolent

Mexican race - 77-Ready to fight

VERTICAL

1-A son of Adam 2-Historical romance

by Soott

32-Second prealdent of 3-Nothing

U. 8.

34-A sail of oleta mold 36-induard

58-A'mountain range of

Turkestan

39-A substituts 41-Procured

43-Killed

47-To burnish 40-Name of several

English kings

32-A small candle

54-A heavenly body

4-To Bourry.off 6-To piggle B-Melted volcanio

rock

7.To make corrections

In

8-Brazilian esin

VERTICAL (Cont.) 27-Girl's name |28-Humid

29–Possonalva pronoun 31-To hound 38-Made flat the sides of, as timbar

85-One of the

continents (abbr)

| 87-A square block of

wood

40-Wheeled vehicle 48-Golf, torm |44-A Justlos of the

U. 8. Buprema Court [48~Yellowish-grean

mineral 48-To become firmly

united

48-A prickly flower

hond

60-Roman goddess of

plenty

81-A handsome shrub 182-One who is ruined:

(colton.)

(50–An Italian arctio

explorer

68-A popular bedding

plant

9-Pubile repository of 60-Funny

Arma

10-Accomplished

12-To pinch

14-To close

16-Complete

68-A priestly vestment 18-A Japanese field

(Hebrew).

87-Middle

69-A fabulous bird

marshal

24-An ago, 28-Frash

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63-Have (8oct.) 64-Fortified elty of

Lorraino, France 66-Likely

68-Existed

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A STYLISH THRILLER.

SHOCKING THE DOCTOR.

Cleverness is a little tiring at times, but in the very short noval of Charles Brackett, there is one genuinely amusing chapter, that in which a modern decadent in dreams quotes modern verse to Dr. John-| son. He ends up with Robert Brow- ning's "Fear Death?-to feel the frog in my throat," and the doctor bows his head on his arms, A final. broadside of Miss" ~ Amy Lowell sets the doctor groaning. The book is worth reading for this The rest of it is chapter alone. filled with degenerates all talking very smartly. The author should certainly be heard of later. ["Week-end," by Charles Brackett;

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[Medical Help on Birth Control

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When style.

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The Pacific: a forecast. by Lt-Col. P. T. Etherton and H. Hessell Tiltman. (12/6). Benn, London.

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["Lost Address," by Chard Powers Smith, London: Benn. 68. net.] Mr. Smith is an American poet who dedicates "Lost Address" to his wife. Mrs. Smith has every right to be proud of her husband's volume, since he shows himself to be a poet of variety and force, combined with

technical skill. This technical ex-

London: Putnams. 68. net.] Some little time ago the "Church Times" stated, in dealing with the problem of birth control, that "the public has a right to expect better guidance from doctors than it geta at the present time in this matter." This work is a response to this statement, and

Certain readers of the "Church Times" and others will feel any- thing but easy over the result of the request for guidance from medical men.

The result has been almost entirely a material one; and the spiritual aspect of population seems to have boen entirely for- cellence makes his book pleasant gotten; if ever remembered. Birth Mr. Francis Brett Young has won reading, since in these haphazard control has never appealed very very high place for himself days would-be poets disregard favourably to the Church, which, in among contemporary writers of fic- Buch insignificances as technique the hungry past, frequently assured Such well-qualified judges as and are satisfied so long as some the working classes that "Blessed Mr. John Masefield and Mr. Hugh publisher can be induced to accept is he that has his quiver full." So Walpole have both agreed as to the their jumble of words. I hall Mr. long as the mouths were there, the unusual distinction of his prose Chard Smith as a workman. Com Church worried very little how and his power as a real creator of pare his "Custer" with "Pompeil, these mouths were to he filled. character. And as he is still a and "Pompeii" with "Ports of Call" Science, however, which seems to young man it is likely enough that loosely written essay in have harnessed most things, success he has a brilliant career before him. modernity; then contrast these fully, has taken a hand in the mat. His finest piece of work so far has with the series of beautifully writter and has enabled the century-old been his "Portrait of Clare"-an ten sonnets printed in the volume, teachings of Malthus to take prac immense canvas, into which he has or with "Threnody," and you will tical shape. introduced a great number of por realise that Mr. Smith is a poet traits, vividly drawn, and developed with something to say and who with surprising mastery.

knows how to say it.

Population, has always been re- garded as an economic question. Readers of Mr. Brett Young's

Factories required hands, the army soldiers, the mines required colliers, latest novel will find that it has been conceived and executed on a

That great actor, the late Richard the sea needed men for fishing and much smaller scale than the Mansfield, was a man

warfare, and the working classes of violent "Portrait of Clare,"

But it shows temper, says Mr. C. B. Cochran in were always encouraged to see that all the writer's perfection of tech- his book "Secrets of a Showman" these wants were supplied, and be-

nique, and not a little of his gift "Not that he was bad-hearted, nor of analysing the subtler workings at bottom vindictive; but he showed and less evident emotions which impatience and resentment when sometimes animate mankind and things happened at the theatre that govern, to some extent, his trans- resulted from lack of care in pre actions. The main theme of the paration, and from general lack of book, which the author has develop-Intelligencs. Then he would fuma

cause of the attractiveness of sex It must be said that they needed But very little encouragement. picture the State which asked so there was another side to the enthusiastically for children, never made any effort to feed the pro- geny, That was the problem of

labourers, 258, as chain makers, or

ed largely through his portrait of and rage, and refuse to be comforted the begetters, and whether they Ruth Morgan, is the conflict which.aven by his wife. When he opened is almost bound to ensue when the a new theatre at Cleveland, Ohio, were earning 128. a week as farm pity that is akin to love, is con- the curtain at the end of the first 30s. a week as clerks, they were ex- fronted with the stronger and more act would not come down, and the devastating emotion which not every stage tableau had to be broken spected to see that the body's wants man or woman-perhaps happily for that Mansfield and the other actors

were catered for and, when the themselves is capable of experi- could get off the stage. When the time arrived, that the offspring encing to its fullest extent. The stage had been set for Act II, were provided with sufficient educa- crux comes to Ruth Morgan when, Mansfield was nowhere to be found. tion to enable them to take their after she has engaged herself to the He had left the theatre and gone to place in the position in life in young archaeologist, Hugh Bredan, his hotel, and locked himself up. which God chose to call them. But, more out of pity for his physical. He was so petulant that he broke anent might enjoy all the pleasures curiously enough, although the infirmities than for any strong up the furniture in his room of matrimony, there was no eager affection, she is swept completely Nothing would induce him to come off her feet by the masterful per- out, to complete the play. This mess for the full quiver regarded as sonality of Dr. Bezuidenhout, an cost him a lot of money, as the local such a virtuous blessing by those anthropologist temporarily attached inanager got heavy damages in who filled the offices of pastors and to the North Bromwich Expedition suit which he brought."

masters. The wealthy understood at Thebes..

all there was to know about birth control long before it became a plank in the programme of practical politics.

The conflict with herself and with powers far stronger than her own which Ruth has to face beneath the burning sunshine of Egyptian akies and in an atmosphere par, meated with the dust of dead kings and queens of ancient dynasties, s no easy one. Stricken down by a 'sudden haemorrhage, Hugh Bredon Is saved from death by Bezuiden- hout, and. Ruth's compassion for her | invertebrate lover, which has been weakened by her love for Bozul- denhout, reawakens and becomes almost maternal in its Intensity. "Out of the distance of yesterday she heard. Bezuidenhout's voice."

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acquain Bredon will be as surely dust and tivea sot, eufferers free from con- ashes as those crumbling relics of stipation and torpid liver thus differe bygone Egypt which have slept for rescuing them from the sick head- centuries within the shadow of the aches and other ailments that arise. Thoban hills,

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