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Who would be famous in these days! Those who raise their heads a little above the other stalk in the human field are almost withered in a blaze of publicity, and if they commit any folly, however venial, may Heaven help them, particu larly if they happen to live either in Creat Britain of the United States. The vice of this age is a curiosity which pries into the most secret domestic concerns of people who. So boast, as the saying goes a name. often do we read the headline or contents bill Baronet's love affairs" that we tremble to think what the proletariat con ceives that high'y rein the same way respectable institution. the baronetage, the prominence given to the occasional grievances, delinquencies, and quarrels of actresses, musicians, and actists in the Courta puts the arts in popular estimation almost beyond the pale. And even when the victims have left the courts they are pursary into their homes and an investiga tion by our special commissioner "fol- lows upon the investigation of the minis TU be a personality, a "well-know, i
must, nowadays be like living in a house without curtains or blinds. Every movement is watched, and even the eating of a meal brings a crowd make living a to the window. It mast mi'd torture, and now a new terror has been added to death. In the old days a certain decency was observed concerning the origins, follies, sins, and eccentricities of the distinguished and the great. But nowadays scarcely has the breath left the body than the vultures of gossip descend futtering their revelations, confidences, letters, and memoirs. Madame Sarah Bernhardt has just boss buried, but al ready newspaper readers on an English Sunday, are being regaled with
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An actress dies. Is her art discussed. analysed? Not a bit of it. But her mother's secrets are revealed with all the speed of prying malice. A poet dies Is there a fan rch for the key to the music- of his verse? No: the search is for "the woman in the case”, The death of an illustrious personage is announced, and the next day we are informed that "a titled lady intimately connected with Court life in Raritania," has been pre vailed upon, to tell us all about the famous scandal which so shocked Europe." Tom Eaves, indeed has left a
Tho. numerous progeny, behind him. result, of course, is that the vast majority of people are infected with distorted views of life and are associating ́ real distinctión with the little morünenes and aberrationg which are bound to be intent |,in all-met-and -women; whether they dem grea or small. The gentleman makes every allowance for the valet's standpoint and opportunities, but he still persists in. believing, and asks the world to believe, that he is a gentleman. The horo has his cupboard, hut the skeleton ought not to bind us to his heroic qualities. It is the greatness in great men and women which we night to seek and adroir. Too often- today it is their littleness which is beld up by treacherous hands for our inspec tion-Morning Port (London).
25 YEARS ON A LONELY ISLAND.
MELBOURNE, June 7th. Mr. T. Banfield, the naturalist and author of "Confessions of Beach- comber," and other books, has died at the age of 70 at Dunk Island, off the const of Queensland, where he had been living alone with his wife for twenty-five
years.
The crew of the steamer Innisfail, pars ing the island, saw a woman waving on the beach. A boat was landed and Mrx Banfield was found to be the only in- habitant of the island. Her husband was dead. The crew made a coffin out of ship's timber and the Chief Officer read the burial service.
Mra. Binsfeld refused to leave the island, and the captain called for volun- toors to stay with her. Every man offer- ed, and the "captain selected one to remain,
Some twenty-five years ago, Mr. Baabe'd acquired under the land laws of the Queensland Government, Dunk Island off the coast of Queensland. This was en islet rather more than three square miles in area, inhabited till then only by the rapidly dwindling remuant of a once con siderable nativo population, which bas since it would seem, entirely disappear. ed. There, with his wife, he settled down to Live the simplest of lives and indulge in his cherished pastime of observing the ways of birds, beasts, and fishes, and, while they remained, his black fellow roon.
During the twenty-five years of his life on the island, Mr. Banfield' produced three books" Confessions of a Beach- cumber," published in 1905, * My Tropic Isle. 1911, and "Tropis Days," 1018. In these books he set down the results of his feired observation of Nature, but j he 'kept his own porechality rigidly in, the background, so that little could be gathered of the everyday life of the island. All that could be learned was the clearing in which he and his wife grew what they needed was 44 aeres in extent; that they made the island a place of refuge for rare species of birds; And that they found contentment in their solitary life. Ho strictly did Mr. Ban- field follow his principle of protecting. bird ife, that an experiment in beekeep- ing failed because he would not "shoot: Rihé bomenting birds. Ho'did not pretend to be a scientiɓe naturalist, and he was raphatically not a collector; he was kin ply an observer of Nature,
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