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The old Bohemian Latin Quarter, it is true, has gone for ever. People are cleaner, for one thing. It has been a long time dying, but the last few years have heard the death rattle.

Ever since Henri Murger wrote his Scenos de la Vie de Boheme," seventy

Apart from having played football for with the Quartier Latin, and the book England and cricket for Australia, he has must have drawn hundreds of thousands represented Somerset at almost every who had but little interest in ita' scholarly conceivable game, and contained her traditions and the Sorbonne but believed county eleven for many years, and in that bere was to be found the picturesque many of her most glorious wins. But for life of the vagabond artist one man in the West who could quote you But nowadays visitors come, see, and facts and figures for any one of Mr.go away disappointed. They say that the Woods's lents, there are a dozen who Quarter Latin is no more Bohemian than will regale you with one of the countPassy, or Fulbam for that matter; and less stories of which he is either subject old inhabitants, returning to scenes of or author, stories not merely of bat and formeer gaiety, sigh for the good old days. ball, but of every side, of life in those valloys of the West in which we grow the best wheat and barley in the world." For Sam," as he is universally known in his own country, is a character if ever there was one, and character is the

It now has "dancings" that vie with koynote of his book, as it has been ofthose of Montmartre, with jazz-bands and his vigorous life. The years may have champagne. Cafe that were the haunts crippled him with rheumatism, he may of Marger's and du Maurier's heroes, look now like a goatled and knotted oak, but he still looks out and back on where Stevenson lounged, where the days in the field with infinite "guato, and

"grisette laughed and long-haired "stud- recalling the past and appraising the pre eats and immature artists made merry sent with the shrewdness, the enthusiasm, and bilked their billa-here the stulid the humorous severity that made him tradesman takes his coffee with his family thirty years ago a prince among county and listens to classical music. captains. With Hobbs and Tate usurping his horizon, it may be as well to remind contemporary youths that Mr. Woods was in his prime, one of the greatest of fast bowlers that he took thirty-six Oxford wickets is his four Varsity matches bowled unchanged with the Hon. F. S. Jackson against the Players at Lord's, played for Australia, the land of his birth, against England when a Freshman, and, but for a mischance, would have equalled Midwinter's unique record, by playing for England against Australia fourteen years later, as his bowling left him, he became a splendid hitter with genius for making funs at a crisis and responsible as much as any, man for his county's persistent habit of "upsetting the apple-carts of Yorkshire and Surrey. He has toured "Africa, America, and the West Indies, and of each trip his reminiscences are ́ ́ extensive, and peculiar, ranging from the tale of the sea-sick Amercian to that of the tee total parson at the fancy dress ball, and the phenomena of the Stoddart cult" amongst the negroes of Jamaica.

GREAT DAYS AT CAMBRIDGE. Had his lot been cast in other lands Mr. Woods might well have been the protagonist in a Jack London" tale, As it was he was an athletic phenomenon wherever he went. At Brighton College, where he was a contemporary of that splendid athlete, George Cotterill, he, born and bred a Rugby player, found to his dismay that Soccer was the code; he was put to play in goal, and within a month was playing there for Sussex; and subsequently played for the Corinthians. At Cambridge he reverted to his first love, and for some years was one of the finest forwards in England No man can ever have enjoyed his time at the Varsity more. With a body that could breakfast off hot lobster and audit ale and then take all ten wickets, and with a mind serenely untroubled by examinations, supported, to some extent by a Dean whose feet were so large that you only had to stare at them for him to wind up his intended censure with a Well, the best of luck at Lord's | Sam Woods was the best known and best liked under- graduate of his generation. Of his sub- sequent experiences with Somerset he writes at length, recalling with equal cheerfulness their occasional triumphs, such as the extraordinary win over Tork: shire in 1901 when led by 238 on the first innings they won by 279, and episodes less happy, witness a certain week in 1893 when they lost successive matches by an innings and 317 and an innings and 450 Of all the great cricketers with whom he played be has something vigorous and decided to say: there is a delightful story of "W.G.," "the artful toad," and with the close experience of nearly forty years to guide him his com- parisons of the old and the new are always interesting. •

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If his active playing days are now some way behind him, Mr. Woods's interest in every form of sport, especially in cricket and Ragger," is wholly undiminished Of matches in the West he misses no more than he can help, and in his book he has a good deal to say of the strength and weaknesses of 'modera 'form. Like many others, he deplores the extension of county cricket to such limits that "by the time August comes I see lote of the players simply bored with the game, and he deplores the prevalence of alow cricket and the attitude of mind that concentrates on not losing rather than upon winning a game. Fielding, ho thinks, has definitely deteriorated, and notices · how, rarely a modern county eleven indulges in the practice, which is second nature to the Australians of throwing catches to each other at the fall of a wicket. On the other hand, English cricket, as a whole, seems to him about as good as ever it was, with one fatal exception, fast bowlers of genuine class. In speaking of Rugby, he confines him- self to that department of the game of which he was himself a past-master, for ward play. To their quickness in break- ing up from the serum and in, following up he attributes the wonderful success of the New Zealand combination, and in the readiness of the forwards to abandon the serum the moment the ball is away and to take their part in the game in the open he sees the great development in Rugby since his own days. The in- cressed demand on the legs of forwards puts an absolute premium on physical fitness, On the other hand, the fetish for (Continued at foot of next Columns)

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One of the last in the old tradition re- cently disappeared. Once you saw there politicians, famous artists and writers, poets and journalists from all countries, and of course some ordinary drunkarda and night. birda Occasionally a de throned monarch or princeling would hold his Court there. In the small, ill-lit room, where dimly through the smoke che glimpsed couples dancing to the measure of a mandoline, the fate of Ministries was solved and literary reputations made or damned. A mixed company it was that emerged into the dawn, but now the friendly gendarme" at the street cortier sees them no more.

The last of the Bohemians have gone under-gone underground. In. an old, narrow street, where Burger himself abode, is a small café. We descend the store stairs, bumping our heads, and we enter a decidedly modern school

There is a roar as we enter; then a chorus of uncomplimentary welcome. We sit on hard wooden stools or boxes at old wine-stained tables. A poet, with long hair and flowing black tie, is reciting his own verses. A well-known "chansonnier" sings a song full of political allusions

Old Pascal himself goes to the piano, Pascal with his spectacles on his nose, who has sung for generations of students: Ho sings the old songs of the Quarter, and, while we sip a white wine that costs as the equivalent of 3d.. a glass; we listen to rollicking choruses, mostly about gentlemen who are deceived by their wires: A collarless figure in corduroys, a wood-carver whose name is known, in

ar circles throughout Europe, recites a poem in argot

The atmosphere becomes thicker and thicker, until we can hardly see the wall in front for smoke. "Let us go; I am choking," exclaimed my friend who had asked me to show him the Latin Quarter "And if that's Bohemia," he said, as he filled his lungs with the chill night air in the dark street, "let's go to Montmartre.

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Sir Alfred Mond, addressing at Car- marthen in mail week a meeting in sup- port of the movement to raise a fund for the purchase of the Spablinger In- atitute at Geneva for the treatment for tuberculosis, said that when he was Minister of Health he became interested in the treatment of this terrible, disease, and he sent one of the Ministry's medical officers to Geneva to make the fullest investigation. His report was of & re- tharkable nature.

He (Sir Alfred) was not going to take the responsibility of saying that he offered his opinion as to the efficacy or otherwise of the Spahlinger treatment, but he would say he was absolutely con vinced that Spahlinger, whom he knew personally, was a man of high integrity and of great scientific attainment who had devated his life and his fortune in the interest of humanity to working out bacteriological results.

When ho was Minister of Health he thought the deatb-rate from tuberculosis. was high enough for the British Govern- ment to spend this relatively small amount of money in order to test this treatment to the fullest extent. could not understand any hesitation when they were dealing with human suffering, and the amount of money asked for was only £30,000.00

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The remarkable thing to him as a busi news man was that we should spend a million a year on sanatoria and could not spend this £30,000, order to see whether we could make the expenditure of the million annually no longer necessary. It was almost criminal to show any hesita tion in the task before us, even if we had to embark ca the expenditure of £30,000 or £100,000

The resolution in support of the fund was passed and Sir Alfred Mond opened the subscription list with 100 guinea

cent years has been accepted by English chucking the ball about," which of re-

packs and has certainly led to some of the mose dramatic passages in the inter- national games his on occasion proved a snare and a delusion, as when we lost to Wales in the mud at Cardiff To no pack led by Sammy Woods would the cry of Tect, England, fact, have been raised -in vain.

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