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STORIES OF THE POETS.

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Mr. Arthur Severn delivered a lecture on October 5th to the members of the City Temple Literay Society on "The Posts of Last Cantory." He recalled that it was his father. Joseph Severn, who went with John Keats on his last journey to Italy. and was with Keats when he died. The lecturer gave an account of Wordsworth and Coleridge in the West Country, and said they were looked upon with the

suspicion by the natives. When

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Netherstower a detective was sent down from London to watch these strange men. The detective, it seemed, had a very curious, nose, and when he shadowed the two, poets into a wood he thought he heard them speak ing about his nose. What they were talking about was the Dutch philosopher, Spinoza (Laughter.) The detective reported an favourably to the owner of the house, und Wordsworth actually had to leave.

Tealing with the eccentricities of some. molern poets, Mr. Severn told a story about Rossetti That poet, he said, believed that The was very clever at taming certain anuals, and in his house at Chelsea had a wombat, an armadillo, and zeby He then becaine ambitious to have a bull. The bull came all right, but the man who be trouble, brought it, thinking there might went to a neighbouring public-house- Rossetti asked to have the bull brought into his garden, and the next thing the mun heart was is row. The ball was pawing the air, and Rossetti was up an apple tree shouting, Take away this-bull." From that time Rossetti contendex himself with a wombat:

Swinburne was at a club one night (the lecturer said), and came down to the hall looking for his hat. He found four all hats in the hall belonging to four gentle men who were playing whist upstairs. ile tried on the hats one after another, and as.

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not fit throw them, on the ground. When the hall porter appeared he found Swinburne executing a war dance on the hats. (Laughter.) Swinburne went for the hall porter, and asked where his hat was, The man replied that if he remen:bered, aright the poet hal nu hat when he catne. to the club.

READING THE FUTURE.. "HINDU BELIEF IN ASTROLOGY.

One of the commonest sights in tho, streets of Calcutta is the fortune-teller aquatting at the roadsides oe on the grassy lawn in quiet places of concourse in the public squares, trying to persuade the passar-by to hold forth their open palms to be examined by means of an English magnifying glass. These are fortune-tellers and even in modern days their nuniber is un the increase Some of them frequent the hotel arcades in Chowringhee and approach Europeans to "try your fortune."

sauntering along the streets, have been frequently invited to submit my hand to the man's inspection. But what is interesting is that there are numbers of these people who advertise in the press and stick a notice in public place informing frequenters that on certain days and at certain hours they would be found

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patrons. Apparently, the Fastrologers, nude. Sonus of the better class thriving palmists, and horoscope-readers claim to be descended from the Persian magi

who came to India somewhere about 600 B.C. While rearly to serve who pay them, a few of them are also in the regular monthly pay of the Indian nobility in many parts of India for All Hindus frmly believe in astrology.

To those who live in a country where the belief in astrology still pervades all classes from the highest to the lowest a study of this subject may be interesting, inasmuch as it shows a lingering trace of the mythology of the Orient, where there are innumerable petty deities and godlings as contrasted with real gods, whose close connection with natural phenomen is obvious. Presumably, t thest are the heritage of a primitive stratum of religion, whick must have felt its muck on the yupule

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In the Hindu religion, the celestial deities have all their votaries and are worshipped. Natural phenomena are interpreted as the TELEPE, G, 1030. joy or wrath of Heaven as the case thay be; eclipses

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and are counteracted by various ceremonials" The signs of the Zodiac and the Nakshatras (stellar planets) have astrological interest for the Hindus, though they are not actual objects of worship.

Propitiation displeased divinities is not infrequent, among all classes by way of gifts to the poor and offerings to the temples. In fact, this sort of superstition is so strong, that, in Upper India, it is still the popular belief that the stars are shepherded by the myou.

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The belief in astrology controls and directs overy action of a devont Hindu. Before starting on a journey he must find out from. some astrologer whether the positions of the stars and plancts are favourable or not. The very essence of Hindu life is the faith- ful carrying out of a routine of personal rites and religions observances, rustpun connected with the knowledge of the planets and stars. And it in for this purpose that a fall and correct calendar is needed for the ordering of every Hindu family.

But astrology as a science, has but few real exponents in these times. And quack astronomers and astrologers live become numerous and by means of elaborate adver tisements continue to draw people with a desire to look into their fature to derive solace

from incorrect asti Indin, to-day and falsc astrology. There are,. i maby almanacs used by the people wherein the calculation are so wide of the mark that it is easy to find even four or five degrees out in the longitude of a planet. And when it is remembered that astrology to correct its

as a science isecimal place,

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the reliability of the results of thess almanaca becomes apparent,

There are not, however, wanting men even to-day who have devoted years of patient study and research to the abstruse problems of this branch of science but their number is very few. To the millions, the quack-with cowries or his dice, juggling with the names of the zodiacal signs is still the great fortune-teller and such simple minded credulity prevails even in the twentieth century-The Englishman.

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